book
Women in Modern India
Forbes, Geraldine. Women in Modern India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Why this matters here
Forbes’s Women in Modern India documents women’s participation in civil disobedience—salt manufacture, picketing, demonstrations, arrest, and public leadership—often beyond the roles colonial structures and movement leaders first imagined. When Others Become Leaders uses that record for the salt campaign: Gandhi encouraged women’s participation, yet women pushed past the parts initially assigned to them. Forbes supplies the social history; the book asks when circulation of leadership outruns obedience to a preset script.
