She sits with suffragette leaders at rallies, sells the movement’s newspaper on the street, chants slogans at meetings, and lends her presence to help women gain their voting rights. Sophia steps wholeheartedly into the women’s suffragette movement, most notably by spearheading firm personal protests against paying taxes because she had no representation. Sophia goes back to England in 1907 with a renewed passion to agitate and act. As political turbulence grows in India, the princess befriends activists Sarla Devi Choudrani, Lala Lajpat Rai, and Gopal Krishna Gokhale. Three years later, Sophia returns to India at which time her political views begin to find definition. Please reload the page and try again.īack in England, Sophia focuses her energy on promoting awareness of and fundraising in aid of the lascars-Indian sailors who were stranded on the English coast and abused by their employer, the East India Company. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. INALIENABLE: REFLECTIONS ON INDEPENDENCE & BELONGING.Voices Column: Desi Roots, Global Wings.
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