wrote about two struggle movements for the
universal adult suffrage
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The Women's suffrage movement in India fought for Indian women's right to political enfranchisement. Beyond suffrage, the movement was fighting for women's right to stand for and hold office. In 1918, when Britain granted limited suffrage to women property holders, the law did not apply to British citizens in other parts of the Empire. Despite petitions presented by women and men to the British commissions sent to evaluate Indian voting regulations, women's demands were ignored in the Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms. In 1919, impassioned pleas and reports indicating support for women to have the vote were presented by suffragists to the India Office and before the Joint Select Committee of the House of Lords and Commons, who were meeting to finalize the electoral regulation reforms of the Southborough Franchise Committee. Though they were not granted voting rights, nor the right to stand in elections, the Government of India Act 1919 allowed Provincial Councils to determine if women could vote, provided they met stringent property, income, or educational levels.
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Women Suffrage Movements (in USA and UK). The women suffrage movement was the struggle to gain the right to vote as men. Supporters of this demand who participated in the movement were called as suffragists. Changing social conditions for women during the early 1800', combined with the idea of equality, led to the birth of the Women Suffrage Movement. It gained momentum in USA after the 15th Amendment of the Constitution was passed, which gave the right to vote to the Blacks but not to any woman. In 1869, suffragists formed two national movements and demanded the right to vote for women and to get their rights heard, they claimed themselves to railings in public places. Many women went on hunger strikes, many were arrested and fined. All these incidents attracted nation wide attention. Finally, in 1920, American women got the right to vote, while women in UK got this right in 1928.