Mahila Atma Raksha Samiti

The Mahila Atma Raksha Samiti (Bengali: মহিলা আত্মরক্ষা সমিতি, 'Women's Self-Defense Association, abbreviated MARS) was a women's movement in Bengal, India.[1] MARS was a mass organisation linked to the Communist Party of India.[2]

  1. ^ Agarwal, Bina. Gender and Land Rights in South Asia. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1994. p. 439
  2. ^ Overstreet, Gene D., and Marshall Windmiller. Communism in India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959. p. 402