This photograph shows the Committee of the All India Women’s Conference (AIWC) in Bombay (today Mumbai) in 1930. Founded just three years earlier in 1927, the AIWC is now one of India’s oldest women’s organisations. Its aims were, and still are, to improve women’s education, working conditions and social conditions. In its early years, the AIWC campaigned against the legality of child marriage, and for women’s rights to divorce and inheritance. Many of its members, such as Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Sarojini Naidu and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, were actively involved in politics both before and after Indian independence. Today, the AIWC still campaigns for women’s rights in India and runs programmes to improve women’s education and professional opportunities.