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This essay discusses the efforts by women to lead social reform movements in India during the 1970s and 1980s, including demonstrations against sexual exploitation, anti-price rise movements, and anti-alcohol movements as the forerunners of modern women's movements in the country.

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"Movements in India have historically incorporated women from anti-price to anti-alcohol movements. Women have been victims of sexual exploitation, especially those of lower-class or caste and also victims of violence, whether Hindu or Muslim. Women's involvement in such movements and women's activism nevertheless, has been rather complex. As Subamaniam asserts; "The contemporary women's movement comprises numerous groups and organizations which vary in location, form and type, groups include urban, rural, small, large, informal, formal, localized, national, internationally affiliated and combinations of..."

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