For Kirthi Jayakumar, her 9th standard history assignment profiling leaders was one such spark, setting her on a quest to find a woman leader to profile beyond the only two (Indira Gandhi and Sarojini Naidu) whose contributions were noted among many male leaders. With these profiles of 47 feminist leaders from India’s pre-independence era to the present who “Fought for Inclusion,” “Expanded Law and Policy,” and “Broke New Ground in Public Spaces”, to quote the three part titles of the book, Jayakumar has uncovered and highlighted lost and misplaced gems of history and put them front-and-centre in this her-story of “narratives that have been talked over, written over, and if at all, presented in the shadow of men.” Many others - Martha Farrell, who wrote one of the first books on workplace…