In this amazingly comprehensive and confident history of women's enactment of citizenship in the struggle for and experience of Indian national independence, Annie Devenish has provided readers, historians of India
and of women alike, with an entirely new investigation of the years of early nationhood and women's role as agents of change.

Ellen Dubois, Distinguished Professor, Department of Gender Studies, University of California Los Angeles

In this lucid account of the modern Indian women's movement, Annie Devenish invites us to consider the variety of ways that citizenship was conceptualised at the intersection of nationalist and feminist politics at key moments in the history of Indian democracy.

Antoinette Burton, Professor of History, The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

It is a very well-researched book and should be read not only by scholars interested in women's studies but by all students of modern Indian history.

Aparna Basu, Former Professor, University of Delhi