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The History of Doing - An Ilustrated Account of Movements for Women's Rights and Feminism in India, 1800 – 1990, authored by Radha Kumar, is a book about the thematic history of the women’s movement both before and after India got her independence. It covers events from the nineteenth century to today. About Zubaan Books: An Imprint of Kali for Women Zubaan is a non-profit publishing house which grew out of India’s first feminist publishing house, Kali for Women. It was founded by Urvashi Butalia, who was the co-founder of Kali for Women. The idea was to continue the work of Kali. The publishing house has received much of the backlist of Kali so that the imprints of all of the backlist is done. Zubaan comes from a Hindustani word which literally means ‘Tongue’. Other meanings for the word are: voice, speech, language and dialect. In the future, Zubaan plans to venture into other fields, apart from feminist publishing, like begin publishing in Hindi and start translating their books to other Indian languages, organize more workshops, and publish more popular books and still keep the focus on women.