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An active participant in the Indian independence movement, she is widely remembered for hoisting the Indian National flag at the Gowalia Tank maidan, Bombay during the Quit India Movement in 1942. Post-independence, she remained active in politics, becoming Delhi's first Mayor. [36] Usha Mehta (25 March 1920 – 11 August 2000) was a Gandhian ...
Between 1921 and 1930, the provincial councils approved of women's franchise but with limitations. The number of women actually eligible to vote was very small. [15] In the 1920s, Naidu began to focus more on the nationalist movement as a means of achieving both women's rights and political independence. [25]
A proponent of civil rights, women's emancipation, and anti-imperialistic ideas, she was an important figure in Indian independence movement. Naidu's work as a poet earned her the sobriquet 'the Nightingale of India' by Mahatma Gandhi because of colour, imagery, and lyrical quality of her poetry. [1] [2] [3]
Pritilata Waddedar (5 May 1911 – 24 September 1932) [1] [2] was an Indian revolutionary nationalist who was influential in the Indian independence movement. [3] [4] After completing her education in Chattogram (formerly Chittagong) and Dhaka (formerly Dacca), she attended Bethune College in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta).
The march was one of the most important event in the Indian independence movement. [13] In a time when women were required to take a back seat (due to the patriarchal culture at that time in India), Petit was one of the three women who played a pivotal role in the march and the civil disobedience against tax on salt. [17]
Chelsea Candelario/PureWow. 2. “I know my worth. I embrace my power. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story.
"Capt. Lakshmi" from a 1945 newspaper photograph. Captain Lakshmi was born on 24 October 1914 to S. Swaminathan, a lawyer who practiced criminal law at Madras High Court, and A.V. Ammukutty, better known as Ammu Swaminathan, a social worker and independence activist from an aristocratic Nair family known as "Vadakkath" family of Anakkara, Ponnani taluk, Malabar District, British India. [1]
journalist, early activist in 20th-century civil rights movement, women's suffrage/voting rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois: 1868 1963 United States: writer, scholar, founder of NAACP Kasturba Gandhi: 1869 1944 India: wife of Mohandas Gandhi, activist in South Africa and India, often led her husband's movements in India when he was imprisoned