Ahilyabai Holkar
1700s Indian queen
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Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Vociferous in the fight for equality, she remains a feminist role model and inspiration through the ages, planting the seeds for an end to traditionalism and the birth of female liberation in India and Bangladesh.
Benazir Bhutto
Pakistan’s first female prime minister
Catherine Hilda Duleep Singh
Indian-British suffragist who helped save refugees fleeing the Holocaust
Chai Ling
Most noted for her leadership in the Tiananmen Square protests and her organizations that aid women and students, Chai Ling’s work has helped and inspired people all around the world.
Charithra Chandran
Indian-British actor, producer and activist
Alexandra Asmasoebrata
Indonesia’s first female race car driver
Amrita Sher-Gil
Amrita Sher-Gil was an Indian-Hungarian painter and is considered one of the most important painters of modern India
Anandibai Joshi
Indian woman who earned her medical degree in the U.S. in the 1880s
Anasuya Sarabhai
Indian activist for the rights of textile workers