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The All-Asian Women's Conference (AAWC) was a women's conference convened in Lahore in January 1931, the first pan-Asian women's conference of its kind. Dominated by Indian organisers, "the AAWC was a vehicle for Indian women to voice their ideas and vision of an Indian-centred Asia".

Background
Margaret Cousins, together with Indian activists who had taken part in the 1927 All Indian Women's Conference, were the minds behind the AAWC..Margaret Cousins, upon moving to India with her husband, became involved in social reform systems on the position of women in India. Her inspiration to the founding of the AWC was ingited by previously visiting Hawaii in 1928 at the Pan-Pacific Women's Association. The motives behind the conference were the lack of focus on feminism within the Pan-Asian context. Thus an introduction to new Internationalism within the Interwar period.

The 12th March 1930, is when formal invitations weer sent out for the AAWC, suggesting that the Conference take place in January 1931. Signatories to the circular which invited delegates included Sarojini Naidu, Muthulakshmi Reddi, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, Lady Abdul Qadir, Rani Lakshmibai Rajwade and Hilla Rustomji Faridoonji. These women were mostly past delegates of the All-Indian Women's Conference and dedicated social activists towards the matters of Women.The date was picked to strategically take place in between "two of the Pan-PAcific Women's Conferences planned for Hawaii in August 1930 and China in 1932" .After creating the grounds for the Coneference, Cousins took a step back to let the Indian Women "preside over the organisation" of the conference.

Thirty Asian Countries Including; Georgia, Palestine,Iraq,Syria, Malaya, Indo-China, Siam and Hawaii among others were invited to the AAWC. There was a total of 19 delegates present, adding to 17 Indian delegates and 9 foreign Visitors (including Margaret Cousins) .In total there was a delegation of 36 Women, ready to begin a discourse on women roles in social and political issues.Voted to be the president for the Conference was Sarajoni Naidu. She was well known for her friendship with Gandhi.Naidu unfortunately was put in Jail in May 1930 for her "role in the Indian nationalist civil disobedience movement". As a result, each session of the conferences was presided over by different presidents. These presidents included; Lady Bandaranaike from Ceylon, Mrs. Kamal-ud-din from Afghanistan, Oung from Burma, Mrs. Shirin Fozdar from Persia and Miss Hoshi from Japan.

H.H. the Maharani of Kapurthala laid the ground from which the conference took place in her opening speech as quoted below:

''"Living practically under identical conditions, sharing the good or ill effects of similar customs and traditions and cramped psychology, and actuated in an equal measure by a longing for a change for what may be described as the renaissance of the women of Asia, no organisation existed for them to come together, to exchange ideas and devise measures for achieving their common aims and objects. This Conference, I need scarcely point out, is designed to provide such a medium, a nucleus for the regeneration of our womankind on an intellectual bias". ''