FRANCHISE FOR INDIAN WOMEN
Although at tho last census only twelve women out of every one thousand of full age in India could read and write, the movement for woman suffrage in connection with the Indian constitutional reforms has been gaining in strength both in India and Britain. The Indian Women's "Education Association has promoted a memorial to Lord Southborough which reached him in India, where he is presiding over the committee appointed under tho Monlagu-Chelmsford scheme to frame an electoral franchise.
"The memorial is supported. by nineteen other organisations in this country, chiefly of women, but including the Britain and India Association and the Central Islamic Society; and the individual signatures include those of the Aga Khan (who wrote at length on the subject in his recent book), Princess Sophia Dhuieep Singh, Lord Haidaue, Lady Solborne, Bishop Welldon the Rev. Dr. Caster, and many others."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 173, 16 April 1919, Page 8
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146FRANCHISE FOR INDIAN WOMEN Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 173, 16 April 1919, Page 8
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