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Bengal Women's Education League: Pressure Group and Professional Association

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Barbara Southard
Barbara Southard
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The first attempt to bring together all women interested in female education in Bengal was the convocation of a Bengal Women's Education Conference in February 1927 which led to the formation of the Bengal Women's Education League. The problems of female education had received considerable attention from social reformers in nineteenth-century Bengal, but the formation of the League signified that for the first time women were taking over the responsibility for leadership of the women's education movement. The All-India Women's Education conference had been held in January of the same year, 1927, indicating that the formation of the League in Bengal was part of a national trend of coordinated activity to improve educational opportunities for women.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , February 1984 , pp. 55 - 88
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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