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This is a full time inexhaustible project, full time indicating that the project shall be in operation for as long as it takes, whereas inexhaustible indicating that all articles that are yet to be created under this project couldn't be enlisted at once given the vast expanse of the project title, and therefore the project does yield space for further additions into the list of articles that are to be created under this project as it progresses further in research.

Please do contribute by making additons to the list in the Create Articles section as and when any important subject related to the title of the project is discovered missing.

Also, the below mentioned list of articles that are yet to be created are not ought to remain in the original chronology or pattern forever in the Create Articles section, as whenever any article is created on any title, it is deleted from the Create Articles section and added to the section of Enhance Articles.

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Women in Sanskrit Literature

Women in Vedic Literature

Vishwavara
Apālā
Ghosha
Godha
Wife of Vasukra
Sister of Agastya
Lopamudra
Shashwati
Romasha
Vāch
Māndhatri
Mudgalani
Maitreyi
Gargi

Great Women in the Ramayana

Anasuya
Shabari
Swayamprabha
Ahalya
Mandodari
Sarama
Trijata
Tara
Sita
Kaikeyi
Kaushalya
Sumitra

Main Women Characters in the Mahabharata

Gandhari
Kunti
Draupadi
Sita
Savitri
Satyabhama
Sukanya
Princesa Jaratkaru
Pativrata
Shakuntala
Princess Lopamudra
Sulabha
Vidura
Damayanti
Savitri

Great Women in the Puranas

Madalasa
Devahuti
Sati
Uma
Shaibya
Suniti
Bhamini
Sharmishtha
Devayani

Great Women in Sanskrit Classics

Indumati
Parvati
Mahashweta
Shakuntala
Vasavadatta
Vasantasena
Damayanti
Avantisundari
Radha
Chudala

Women in Buddhism and Jainism

Great Women in Buddhism

Mahapajapati Gotami
Kshema
Patachara
Bhadda Kundalakesha
Ambapali/ Amrapali
Isidasi
Sāmāvatī
Khujjuttarā
Vishākhā

Great Women in Jainism

Shrāvikas
Princess Trishalā
Marudevi
Āryāvati
Brāhmi & Sundari
Mallinātha
Rājimati
Kannaki
Ajja Chandanā
Jayanti
Mrigāvatī
Yākini Mahattarā
Gunā Sādhwi
Pāhini
Shridevi
Vimala
Jakkiyabbe
Attimabbe
Lakkale
Shāntalādevī

Women in the Classical Period (c. 400 B.C. to 1200 A.D.)

Great Women in North India

Pramīlā
Prabhāvatī Guptā
Queen Tribhuvana-mahādevī I
Queen Tribhuvana-mahādevī II
Queens Gaurī-mahādevi & Dandi-mahādevī
Queens Bakula-mahādevi & Dharma-mahādevī
Queen Diddā
Sillā
Rānī Bāī
Poetesses quoted in the Sattasaī
Avantisundarī
Shīlā-bhattārikā
Vikatanitambā
Vijjākā
Udbhayabhāratī

Great Women in South India (c. 400 B.C. to 1300 A.D.)

Tilakavati
Mangaiyarkarashi
Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār
Kodai (Āndāl)
Akka-mahādevī
Rangapatākā
Sembiyan-mahādevī
Kundavai
Kunkuma-mahādevī
Loka-mahādevī
Dānachintamani Attimabbe
Rebbaladevī
Shāntalā
Ādi Mandi & Velli Vidi
Pūda Pāndya's Queen
Angavai & Shengavai
Avvai
Vennikuyatti
Nappashalai
Kāntī
Shīla-mahādevī
Akkadevī
Nāyakurālu
Rudrāmbā
Ganapāmbā

Women in the Medieval Period (c. 1201 to 1800 A.D.)

Great Hindu Women in North India

Samyogita
Kurma Devi
Padmini
Tara Bai
Rani Karnavati
Rani Durgavati
Dhātri Pannā
Lalla
Mira Bai

Great Hindu Women in South India (c. 1301 to 1800 A.D.)

Gangādevī
Molla
Oduva Tirumalāmbā
Honnamma
Cheluvāmbā
Helavanakatte Giriyamma
Tarigonda Vengamāmbā
Madhuravānī
Rāmabhadrāmbā
Rangajamma
Muddupalani
Chenammāji
Umayamma
Mangamma

Great Hindu Women in Maharashtra

Mahadambā
Muktābāī
Janābāī
Kānhopātrā
Bahinābāī
Venābāī
Akkābāī
Jijābāī
Tārābāī
Ahalyābāī

Great Hindu Women in Gujarat and Saurashtra

Mayanallā
Nāikīdevī
Anupamā
Krishnābāī
Gavarībāī
Purībāī
Divālībāī
Rādhābāī
Janībāī

Great Hindu Women in East India

Vishwāsadevī
Chauching
Chandraprabhā
Rānī Bhavānī
Sachīdevī
Vishnupriyā
Jahnavā
Sītā
Ichchhādevī
Hemalatā
Chandrāvatī
Ānandmayī & Gangāmayī
Gangāmani
Hatī Vidyālankāra

Great Muslim Women of India

Raziya Sultana
Gulbadan Begum
Nur Jahan
Jahanara Begum
Zibunnisa
Bibi Fatima Sam
Bibi Zalikha
Chand Bibi
Sahibji

Women in the Modern Period

Great Indian Women of the nineteenth century

Gauri Parvati Bai
Rani Lakshmi Bai
Maharani Kempananjammanni Avaru
Toru Dutt
Panditā Ramabai
Swarnakumari Devi
Kamini Roy
Sarojini Naidu

Women in Post-Independent India

Indira Gandhi
Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia
Vijayalakshmi Pandit
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
Maharani Gayatri Devi
Sucheta Kriplani

Enhance Articles

Readings

The list of readings mentioned below are suggestive (you may use authentic references that aren't in the list as well), and inexhaustible - indicating that more readings in the form of book titles, research papers, articles can be added to the readings list as the project progresses further.

Please do contribute in expanding the range of readings to facilitate more fact-based and objective content for articles under this project.

The Open-Source books in the list below are interlinked (green external links), and can be accessed for free by clicking on them. Doing so shall redirect you to the soft copy of the title.

Eminent Indian Women: From the Vedic Age to the Present - Dr. R.C. Majumdar & Satyamayananda Swami
Ahalya: The Sati Series - Koral Dasgupta
Women Warriors in Indian History - Yugal Joshi
Heroines: Powerful Indian Women of Myth & History - Ira Mukhoty
The Women who Ruled India: Leaders, Warriors, Icons - Archana Gupta
Avishi: Warrior Queen from the Rig Veda - Saiswaroopa Iyer
Daughters of the Sun: Emperors, Queens & Begum of the Mughal Empire - Ira Mukhoty
The Last Queen of Kashmir: Kota Rani - Rakesh Kaul
Maharanis: The Extraordinary Tale of Four Indian Queens & their Journey from Purdah to Parliament - Lucy Moore
Didda: The Warrior Queen of Kashmir - Ashish Kaul
Learned Men & Women of Ancient India - Sreelata Menon
Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India's First Women in Medicine - Kavitha Rao
Boons & Curses: Legends of the Mythological Mother - Yugal Joshi
Saffron Swords - Manoshi Sinha Rawal
A Princess Remembers : Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur - Maharani Gayatri Devi

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