Zoroastrian and Indian women in the British Suffrage movement
The Zoroastrian All Party Parliamentary Group, Gareth Thomas MP and Lord Bilimoria in association with the Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe are commemorating Zoroastrian and Indian women in the British Suffrage movement on the 12th September 2018 at the House of Lords. There will be a special guest speaker Dr Sumita Mukherjee who is a Historian of the British Empire and the Indian subcontinent who has written about the history of South Asians in Britain, the history of women's rights in India, and the global effects of Indian migration. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Bristol and has written a book on 'Indian Suffragettes' published in April 2018.