social reformer, activist and suffragist
Bhagwati Bhola Nauth (born c. 1882) was an Indian social reformer, activist and suffragist.[1]
Life
Nauth was born in Lahore, British India, around 1882. She married Major Bhola Nauth,[2] a doctor who worked in the Indian Medical Service, and they had two sons.[3] She lived in England from 1908.[2]
Nauth was the honorary secretary of the Indian Women’s Educational Fund was also a member of the Eastern League.[4]
On 17 June 1911, the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)[5] organised a Women's Coronation Procession, using the coronation of King George V to demand the vote for white women.[6][7] Jane Cobden and Lolita Roy gathered an Indian contingent in advance of the procession, forming 'part of the 'Imperial contingent'. Nauth was among the group of Indian women who marched.[8]
The women were invited to attend to appear "exotic"[9] and to demonstrate "the strength of support for women's suffrage throughout the Empire."[5] Their "beautiful dresses" (saris) drew admiring glances from the public.[10] Nauth has been identified as one of the women marching with an appliquéd banner in a photograph from the procession.[11][12]
Nauth was later involved in petitioning the British government for the enfranchisement of Indian women.[3][13]
Her date of death is unknown.
References
- ↑ Forgotten Indian women who dedicated their lives to fighting for women's rights, Khan, Mariam. My London(2023-02-27). Retrieved 2025-01-28.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Indian Suffragettes: Female Identities and Transnational Networks{{#if:Mukherjee|, Mukherjee}. Oxford University Press(2018-04-16). ISBN 978-0-19-909370-0
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The black and Asian women who fought for a vote. BBC News(2018-02-11). Retrieved 2025-01-28.
- ↑ Meet 7 Indian Suffragettes Of The British Suffrage Movement, Hoque, Nikhat. Feminism in India(2019-02-03). Retrieved 2025-01-28.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Lolita Roy and Indian Suffragettes, Coronation Procession - Museum of London. Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
- ↑ Black History Month: Diversity and the British female Suffrage movement, Mukherjee, Sumita. The Fawcett Society(2017-10-30). Retrieved 2025-01-28.
- ↑ Have Women of Color Been Written Out of The Women's Movement ?. Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
- ↑ Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere{{#if:Perry|, Perry}. Serpent's Tail(2020-10-01). ISBN 978-1-78283-821-0
- ↑ On the trail of the Indian suffragettes – Dr Sumita Mukherjee, Associate Professor in Modern History at the University of Bristol, Santos, Inês. Womanthology(2021-03-17). Retrieved 2025-01-28.
- ↑ Standing on the shoulders of giantesses: working-class women suffragettes: Louise Raw, Raw, Louise. Woman's Place UK(2020-07-12). Retrieved 2025-01-28.
- ↑ Plinth to mark centenary of women's suffrage includes South Asian and Jewish women. Religious Reader(2018-02-06). Retrieved 2025-01-28.
- ↑ The Routledge Companion to British Women's Suffrage{{#if:Cowman|, Cowman}. Taylor & Francis(2024-07-31). ISBN 978-1-351-36571-0
- ↑ Mobility, race and the politicisation of Indian students in Britain before the Second World War. History of Education({Template:Date).