Pre-colonial social structures and women’s role in them reveal that feminism was theorized differently in India than in the west. Colonial essentialization of "Indian culture" and reconstruction of Indian womanhood as the epitome of that culture through social reform movements resulted in political theorization in the form of nationalism rather than as feminism alone.

Defining feminism in the Indian context
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दुसरा टप्पा: १९१५ – १९४७
पहिला टप्पा:१८५० – १९१५