19th-century Indian women writers

British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator (1847-1933)

Indian poet, politician, governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949

Scots-Irish social worker, author, teacher and disciple of Swami Vivekananda

Indian social reformer (1831-1897)

Indian barrister, writer, and social reformer; first female graduate from Bombay University, first woman to study law at Oxford University; first Indian national to study at a British university (1866-1954)

British India's first female graduate, Bengali poet, social activist and feminist writer

Bengali poet and translator (1856–1877)

feminist activist who protested patriarchy and caste in 19th century India

poet

Begum of Bhopal (1838–1901)

Indian actress

Indian active social worker and one of the first women's rights activists in the 19th century

Irish-Indian suffragist and feminist

British newspaper editor (1858-1927)

Bengali writer

Gujarati writer, social worker and educationist (1882-1970)

Indian activist

Indian singer

Marathi poet and writer (1868–1936)

Indian writer (1862–1894)

Indian Telugu poet

Early Telugu feminist writer and scholar

Bengali writer (1810–1900)

Bengali poet

Bengali poet

Bengali author and social activist

Gujarati writer and teacher from British India

Irish playwright

Punjabi poet

Pandita Brahmacharini Chandabai (1880–1977) was a Jain scholar and a pioneer of women's education in India. She was the founder of the oldest women's publication in India that is still published, Jain Mahiladarsh.

Odia poet

Indian composer and writer of Malayalam literature (1820-1904)