Place of birth

London, England

Place of death

London

About

Monica Whately campaigned for equality, female suffrage and civil liberties. A committed anti-colonialist, she was part of the India League's 1932 delegation to India and co-authored its report.

Visram, Rozina, Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History (London: Pluto Press, 2002)

Walker, Linda, ‘Whately, (Mary) Monica (1889–1960)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/63900]

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Citation: ‘Monica Whately’, South Asian Britain, https://southasianbritain-demo.rit.bris.ac.uk/people/monica-whately/. Accessed: 5 July 2025.

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