Work, writing and public lives
Women’s voices
Read women’s documented contributions across institutions, political life, literature, song and rights work.
5 entries · 11 min reading, calculated from article text
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Your reading goal
Ask which surviving records make a woman’s work visible, and what evidence remains missing or contested.
- 01People · 2 min read
Mata Khivi: the woman who sustained the Guru’s langar
Mata Khivi organised the community kitchen at Khadur Sahib; her service is remembered in Sikh scripture and later histories.
- 02People · 2 min read
Maharani Jind Kaur: regency, separation and exile
Jind Kaur governed for the young Duleep Singh before British imprisonment and exile transformed the Lahore royal family.
- 03People · 3 min read
Amrita Pritam: a life in Punjabi literature
Meet the poet and novelist through a few documented works, a careful chronology and routes into her published writing.
- 04People · 2 min read
Surinder Kaur: Punjabi song from Lahore Radio to the concert stage
Surinder Kaur brought folk repertoire and modern Punjabi poetry to recordings, cinema and audiences far beyond a household gathering.
- 05People · 2 min read
Asma Jahangir: legal aid, women’s rights and resistance to military rule
The Lahore lawyer connected individual legal cases with independent rights organisations, professional leadership and United Nations work.
A question to carry with you
Choose one claim from your reading. Identify its source and locator. What does that source directly establish, and what would need a second source?