Students and the Indian Women’s Movement
The study of students engaged in feminist and/or equality struggles on two campuses in the city of New Delhi provides a glimpse of the current debates going on in the Indian women’s movement. This historical Movement composed of women and men fighting for equality in India, which emerged at the end of the 19th century, has known several periods and generations of activists with their own issues. Students are central actors of the Movement because of their claims, and the debates they raise. The gender institutionalization, the reproduction of inequalities and the invisibility of certain issues, which are at the core of struggles on campus, reflect the internal conflicts of the Movement. While being the inheritors of past struggles, students seem to belong to a new generation of feminists navigating between an intersectional ideology, demand for autonomy and social reproduction.