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{{Infobox organization
| name = Nari Mukti Sangh
| native_name = नारी मुक्ति संघ
| abbreviation = NMS
| purpose = To fight against the exploitation, oppression and atrocities faced by women
| formation = {{Start date and age|1990|03}}
| dissolved = n/a
| type = [[Voluntary association]]
| region_served = Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Jharkhand and West Bengal
}}

'''Nari Mukti Sangh''' ({{IPA-hi|naːriː mʊkt̪ɪ sŋɡʱ}}) (English: ''Women's Liberation Association'') is a women's organisation in India, with a base of supporters in [[Bihar]] and [[Jharkhand]].<ref name="Sanhati-NMS">{{cite web |title=Contemporary anti-displacement struggles and women's resistance: a commentary |url=http://sanhati.com/excerpted/2923/ |first=Shoma |last=Sen |date=3 November 2010 |publisher=Sanhati |access-date=19 February 2014}}</ref> The organisation was founded in March 1990, during a women's conference at Talekocha in [[Giridih]], which was held to organise women to wrestle against the exploitation, oppression and atrocities faced by them. An executive committee of the organisation was also elected at the conference. It had seven members, including its president, secretary and a treasurer.<ref name="MIA">{{cite web |title=Unas palabras sobre la historia de mi vida política |url=https://www.marxists.org/espanol/tematica/mujer/autores/sheela/2013/0001.htm |author=Sheela |publisher=[[Marxists Internet Archive]] |date=October 2013 |language=es |access-date=20 February 2014}}</ref> Presently, the Nari Mukti Sangh (NMS) draws considerable membership from the states of [[Bihar]], [[Chhattisgarh]], [[Jharkhand]], [[West Bengal]] and [[Delhi]].<ref name="MIA"/>

This [[feminist]] organisation in India is not to be confused with Nari Mukti Sangh (Tangail, Bangladesh).<ref>{{cite web |title=Review of existing and emerging patterns of sex work in Bangladesh in the context of HIV and AIDS |url=http://aidsdatahub.org/dmdocuments/REVIEW_OF_EXISTING_AND_EMERGING_PATTERNS_OF_SEX_WORK_IN_BANGLADESH_IN_THE_CONTEXT_OF_HIV_AND_AIDS.pdf.pdf |author1=Rout S |author2=Iyengar S |publisher=AIDS Data Hub |date=January 2008}}</ref>''

==Ideology==
The organisation is influenced from "(scientific) [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxism, Leninism]] and [[Maoism]]", and "believes that national problems can be solved through people's struggle and on the basis of independence, [[democracy]], equality, [[women's liberation]] and [[socialism]]."<ref>{{cite book |title=The Indian Political System |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ij_dTJBc2p8C&q=Nari+Mukti+Sangh |editor1-first=Mahendra Prasad |editor1-last=Singh |editor2-first=Subhendu Ranjan |editor2-last=Raj |publisher=[[Pearson Education]] ([[Dorling Kindersley]]) |year=2012 |isbn=978-81-31761-24-3}}</ref> The NMS describes India as a "semi-[[feudal]]" country,<ref>{{cite book |title=The Indian Political System |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ij_dTJBc2p8C&q=Nari+Mukti+Sangh |editor1-first=Mahendra Prasad |editor1-last=Singh |editor2-first=Subhendu Ranjan |editor2-last=Raj |publisher=Pearson Education (Dorling Kindersley) |year=2012 |isbn=978-81-31761-24-3 |quote=In a similar vein, on the eve of International Women's Day on 8 March 1997, the Nari Mukti Sangh, Bihar, argued that India is a semi-feudal nation.}}</ref> and avers that "without a radical transformation of the [[State (polity)|state]], women liberation is not possible."<ref>{{cite book |title=Dalit Women on the Move: The Bihar Scenario |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_GnaAAAAMAAJ&q=Nari+Mukti+Sangh |author1=Sachchidananda |author2=Niraj Kumar |publisher=Serials |year=2005 |page=109 |location=New Delhi |isbn=978-81-86771-94-5 |oclc=62733085 |quote=Nari Mukti Sangh recognizes 'State Patriarchy' as the prime contradiction and argues that without a radical transformation of the State, Women Liberation is not possible.}}</ref>

==Aims and activities==
The organisation strives to generate "space to women’s voice" and motivates them to partake in "[[economic]], political and social activity and [[Decision-making processes|decision making processes]]."<ref name="Sanhati-NMS"/> The NMS's volunteers goes from village to village in Bihar and Jharkhand, and with the collaboration of local women, tries to mete out punishment to "perpetrators of sexual violence through people’s courts", and endeavours to cordially straighten out the quarrels amongst family members." It also organises ''"kranti ka paathshaala"'' ''(school of [[revolution]])'' to educate women, and so far has enabled thousands of women to read and write.<ref name="Sanhati-NMS"/>
Shoma Sen writes,
{{quote|"Picketing at health centres where there are no doctors, at schools where teachers are absent, fighting for equitable distribution of food grains, for better wages and better remunerative prices, for equal wages for equal work between men and women, these tribal women’s organizations [Nari Mukti Sangh and [[Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangathan]]] are democratizing the processes of women’s political, social and economic activities, thus making development and democracy more meaningful to them."<ref name="Sanhati-NMS"/>}}

The NMS has become a cynosure in Jharkhand for their campaign in [[Pirtand block|Pirtand]] forests of [[Giridih district]] to save the trees. They educate villagers about the significance of trees for humans and wildlife, and make them conscious about the possibilities of future natural disasters if the trees would be continuously cut down ignorantly. They have also alarmed to penalise the offenders with a fine of {{INR}} 1,000 or face physical punishment.<ref>{{cite news |title=Red women on green rampage |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110831/jsp/jharkhand/story_14445998.jsp |first=Vishvendu |last=Jaipuriar |newspaper=[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)|The Telegraph]] |date=31 August 2011 |access-date=24 February 2014}}</ref>

The NMS is believed to be a "front organisation" of the [[Communist Party of India (Maoist)]] by the [[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]],{{cn|date=July 2020}} and is also viewed as an arm of the Maoist Coordination Center.<ref>{{cite book |title=New Dimensions of Women Empowerment |chapter=Empowerment of Women in Bihar |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XCUzD0UqCgsC&pg=PA444 |first=Prakash |last=Louis |editor-first=Ajit Kumar |editor-last=Sinha |publisher=Deep and Deep |year=2008 |page=444 |location=New Delhi |isbn=978-81-84500-89-9 |oclc=271833282}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Chetna Natya Manch]]
* [[Mahila Atma Raksha Samiti]]
* [[National Federation of Indian Women]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.signalfire.org/?p=25778 A few words on my political life-story by Comrade Sheela, President of Nari Mukti Sangh (NMS)]

[[Category:Feminist organisations in India]]
[[Category:1990 establishments in India]]
[[Category:Socialist organisations in India]]

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