Not just Mayawati, these are the unsung women who led Kanshiram’s Bahujan struggle

Kalyani, K and Singh, Satnam (2020) Not just Mayawati, these are the unsung women who led Kanshiram’s Bahujan struggle. The Print.

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The only woman who comes to mind when we look at the Bahujan movement today is Mayawati, the Bahujan Samaj Party supremo and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. This, despite the fact that Bahujan social justice movement founder Kanshiram paid special attention to mentoring women leaders. Through the late 1970s and ’80s, Kanshiram would visit the homes of many women activists to urge them to take up leadership roles. But all that rich history has now shrunk into the image of only one woman in popular memory, eclipsing scores of unsung women leaders across Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.

Item Type:	Newspaper Article
Authors:	Kalyani, K and Singh, Satnam
Document Language:	Language English
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Bahujan, BSP, Kanshiram, Mayawati, Women
Subjects:	Social sciences > Social problems & services > Other social problems and services
Divisions:	Azim Premji University - Bengaluru > School of Arts and Sciences
Full Text Status:	Public
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URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/5496
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