In 1910, Sarla Devi Chaudhurani convened the first meeting of the Bharat Stree Mahamandal in Allahabad.  

• Considered as the first major Indian women’s organisation set up by a woman, its objectives included promotion of education for women, abolition of the purdah system and improvement in the socio-economic and political status of woman all over India.  

• Sarla Devi believed that the man working for women’s upliftment lived ‘under the shade of Manu’. 

Source: Spectrum Modern India.