Sulochana Dongre

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Sulochana Dongre
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Sulochana Dongre, also known as Sulochanabai Dongre, was an Indian activist and feminist. She was a prominent advocate for birth control and female emancipation.[1]

Biography[edit]

During the 1930s and 40s, Dongre became a notable advocate for female emancipation. Initial affiliated with the All India Women's Conference, Dongre - along with other Dalit leaders - broke away from the conference, feeling it was too heavily dominated by the upper castes. She would go on to become a leader of the All India Depressed Classes Women Congress, and chaired a large-scale conference held by the congress in 1942.[2] That same year, Dongre (along with Shantabai Dani) spoke before a crowd of 25,000 women at the women's conferences of an All-India Scheduled Caste Federation meeting in Nagpur.[3][4] Dongre also chaired the Dalit Mahila Federation, the last Dalit feminist group to form before Indian Independence.[5]

Notably, some sources describe Dongre as the first Indian leader to call for nation-wide access to birth control, a measure she supported.[5]

Dongre's biography and exploits were included in Urmila Pawar's 1989 work We Also Made History.[6]

References[edit]

  1. Suchitra. "Sulochanabai Dongre: The Woman Who Advocated Birth-Control In Dalit Feminism". Feminism in India. Feminism in India. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  2. Concrete Steps By Indian Industry On Affirmative Action For Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes. Gautam Book Center. 2008. ISBN 978-81-87733-33-1.
  3. Arya, Sunaina; Rathore, Aakash Singh (2019-09-09). Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-65148-5.
  4. Paik, Shailaja (2016). Dalit Women's Education in Modern India: Double Discrimination. Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series. New York: Routledge, 2014. ISBN 978-0-415-49300-0.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Suchitra (2019-12-09). "Sulochanabai Dongre: The Woman Who Advocated Birth-Control In Dalit Feminism | #IndianWomenInHistory". Feminism In India. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  6. We Also Made History.