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She had referred to “a rising in the hearts of Asian womanhood of a mighty wave of desire for freedom” in her book The Awakening of Asian Womanhood, which brings me back to Jyoti Atwal’s initial description of her training women to run for election. With British women’s right’s activist Annie Besant, she founded the All India Women’s Conference and the Women’s Indian Association, two organisations that survive to this day. Two cells away, a woman condemned to death was taken out and hanged, an execution Cousins described as soul-sickening and depraved.īy then, 1932, she had already made a significant impact on public life in India. The harsh reality of prison proper was close-by, though. If that sounds like a ‘rest-cure’, as she put it herself, these privileges were often withdrawn by guards who thought political prisoners “too happy”.
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She goes on: “I was escorted to the Madras Penitentiary for two sleepless nights feeling anything but penitent.” She was later transferred to the political wing of the women’s prison at Vellore where she involved other prisoners in poetry recitals, singing, dancing and games of badminton on the make-shift court that she had installed on a patch of waste ground.
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In an entertaining account, she describes getting the kind of press coverage a cinema star might envy and later shocking police officers by sitting beside the driver on the jail wagon: “I had been so meek and mild on the two-hours railway section of the pilgrimage that my escorts were not prepared for an impulse in an Irishwoman, who had been reared on the back of ponies and the front seats of country carriages, to revert to type.”
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Shortly afterwards, she was arrested and jailed for defending free speech during a public protest in December 1932. Margaret Cousins would spend a year in jail in India for siding with Mahatma Gandhi in his programme of protest against a British Ordnance curbing free speech. She later visited him in jail and talked about a number of subjects, including the Women’s Indian Association, during “25 minutes of happy give-and-take” in the prison’s courtyard.
She knew Gandhi and recalled sitting on the floor of his cottage early one afternoon discussing “education from all angles”. She would later spend a year in jail in India for siding with Mahatma Gandhi in his programme of protest against a British Ordnance curbing free speech. It told the world that Irish women protested against an imperfect and undemocratic Home Rule Bill,” she wrote in We Two Together, her joint memoir with her husband James ‘Jim’ Cousins.
“That sound of breaking glass on January 28, 1913, reverberated round the world and did what we wanted.
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She was a window-breaker too, and was jailed twice once, for a month in Holloway prison for smashing the windows at 10 Downing Street in London and a second time, also for a month, in Tullamore jail for breaking windows at Dublin Castle in 1913 to protest at the exclusion of women from the Home Rule Bill.
I had lost track of Margaret Cousins after she left Ireland where she is well-remembered for founding, with Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, the Irishwomen’s Franchise League in 1908. She is at present preparing Indian women as candidates for forthcoming municipal elections.” “Incidentally,” she said, “I should remind you that one of Gandhi’s most trusted allies in mission is an Irish suffragette, Margaret Cousins.
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