Om kvinners stemmerett:
- Women’s suffrage: where and when
- ”In colonized countries, women demanded the right to vote not just from stable republics, but from colonial powers. Anti-colonial nationalist movements in some cases encompassed women’s suffrage. For example, in India in 1919, poet and political activist Sarojini Naidu headed a small deputation of women to England to present the case for female suffrage before a select committee set up to create a proposal for constitution reforms aimed at the inclusion of some Indians in government. Although the British committee found the proposition preposterous, they allowed future Indian provincial legislatures to grant or refuse the franchise to women. To the British surprise, many did, making it possible within a short span of time for women to be represented, however limited, on a par with men. Universal suffrage for all adults over 21 was not achieved, however, until it became part of India’s 1950 Constitution.”
- “Women in newly independent states in Africa typically won the vote around the year 1960. On winning national independence, most of the ex-colonized countries created constitutions which guaranteed the franchise to both men and women. In other countries, like South Africa where only whites were allowed to vote for members of the central government, white women gained the right to vote for central government in 1930, while black and colored women voted for the first time in 1994.”
Sarojini Naidu: brev og skrifter
- Brev til sin datter Leilamani Naidu
- Brev til Gopal Krishna Gokhale
- The Times: digital archive 1785-1985 (Finn i BIBSYS). Her er det mer en 30 oppslag om Sarojini Naidu på Times archive
Andre nettsteder om Sarojini Naidu:
- Sarojini Naidu ble den første kvinnelige indiske guvernør
- Sarojini Naidu, en poet
- Om hennes politiske verv
- Naravane, Vishwanath S.: Sarojini Naidu: an introduction to her life, work and poetry 1980
- Alexander, Meena: “Sarojini Naidu: Romanticism and Resistance” i: Economic and Political Weekly, vol 20, no 43, 1985
- Chatterjee, Manini: “1930: Turning Point in the Participation of Women in the Freedom Struggle” i: Social Scientist, Vol. 29, No. 7, 2001
- Alice Stone Ilchmans bokanmeldelse av Padmini Senguptas Sarojini Naidu: A Biography fra 1966 (boka er på Universitetsbiblioteket)