Margaret Elizabeth Cousins and Transnationalism

Women’s Education in Colonial India: The role of women’s movement, transnational actors and the local pioneers

“…In continuation with these scholarly works, this article intends to shed light on the activities of non-Indian and Indian woman activists who contributed towards Indian women's education. Moreover, this article aims to hint towards the role of global connections and local activism in the efforts for the education of Indian (Ramusack 1993;Candy 1996;Atwal 2022) respectively, but their contribution to the education of Indian girls and women is an underexplored area of study. The same is true of Abala Bose and Kulsum Sayani who championed the cause of education of adult women under seclusion but have not received much scholarly attention from the historians of the women's movement and the historians of education.…”