"It was black and white, but something about it just told me that this woman was as brown as I was," she says. "So my first response was, why are you so angry? You hadn't heard about her until fairly recently."Īnand herself knew nothing about Sophia until she saw an interesting face in an old magazine photo. "Suddenly there was this sort of tidal wave of outrage from people who were saying, why wasn't she in the movie?" says Anand. But she didn't make an appearance in the movie. In fact, one of the most important women in the suffragette movement was an Indian princess, Sophia Duleep Singh. When the movie Suffragette came out in October, critics noticed something off: The film's struggling women were all white. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Sophia Subtitle Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary Author Anita Anand
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