A Legacy of Social Change in South Asia

A Legacy of Social Change in South Asia is a book comprising a collection of 21st century documents of hope, resistance, peace, and unity throughout South Asia. Influenced by Voices of a People’s History centred on acts of activism in the United States, this project aims to challenge normative perspectives on social change and Global Majority countries by presenting speeches, personal essays, poems, petitions, and other forms of protest and community organising in the modern age.

Too often the idea of social movements is relegated to the past and assigned to the actions of a single individual when in fact collective change is happening now, through the will and passion of people who are fighting daily on the grassroots level to influence their communities to move beyond caste discrimination, gender-based violence, religious nationalism, ethnic conflict, and much more.