What year did Bollywood (India Cinema) start allowing woman actresses?

Dee: What year did Bollywood (India Cinema) start allowing woman actresses?
I am having trouble finding information on what year India’s Cinema started including woman actresses? Was it during silent films or after? Or does anyone know who she was? Or at least what movie? I have to talk about the history of woman in India’s media… Any help would be wonderful Thank you!!

Answers and Views:

Answer by Lalit Patel
1956

Answer by Radha
For Indian cinema as a whole Kamlabai Gokhale was the first actress in the 1913 film Bhasmasur although her mother Durgabai also was in the film so it can be said they shared this credit. But being an actress was still a shameful thing for many years after this.

Answer by Mandatory
What an outrageously leading question!!! Your question suggests, by implication, that women in India were not allowed to act in movies! Why don’t you do something useful in your life and stop being a disappointment to your parents!
Women in India have achieved more in their own country compared to women anywhere in the western world! India has already had a female PM (commander in chief) and President! India has MANY female CEOs! Indian cinema has always had actresses!!

Answer by Indian Singh
rite from beginning of movies’ making in India (Bharat)