The unstinting commitment of some
Parsi suffragettes enabled Indian women to vote
Parinaz M. Gandhi
"We have seen that it has taken English women more than 80 years of bitter agitation to get their rights. Surely, if we call ourselves human and rational beings, we ought to beware, and not make the same mistake as the English people… All the vague fears which were conjured up about women’s suffrage in England have proved to be illusions. So also will our Indian reactionaries see that their fears about granting women the vote are made of soap-bubble material.” A hundred years ago, Mithan Tata, who with her mother Herabai was in the forefront of the Indian suffragette......