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The Indian independence movement was a series of events aimed at ending the British rule in India, which lasted till 1947. Women played a significant and prominent role in the Indian independence movement. The participation of women in the movement started as early as the eighteenth century.
Pages in category "Indian independence activists from Kerala" The following 109 pages are in this category, out of 109 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Almost all leaders of the State Congress were arrested and imprisoned. Cherian, along with her sister Rosamma Punnose (also a freedom fighter, M.L.A., and a CPI leader from 1948), was arrested and jailed on 24 December 1939. [8] They were sentenced to a year's imprisonment. They were insulted and threatened in the jail.
Formerly a schoolteacher, Yashoda was instrumental in the formation of the Teachers' Union in Kerala before Indian independence. [3] The Teachers 'Struggle of 1939, led by the Malabar Teachers' Union, marked a turning point in the lives of teachers who demanded that SSLC students be given the opportunity to sit for examinations privately.
Annie Mascarene (6 June 1902 – 19 July 1963) was an Indian independence activist, politician and lawyer from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. She was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India as representative of State of Travancore-Cochin. In 1952, she became the first woman from Kerala to be elected as a Member of Parliament.
"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]
He joined the Indian National Congress and actively participated in the Indian Freedom Movement. In 1942 he was arrested during the Quit India Movement and sentenced to 3+1⁄2 years imprisonment. He was a member of the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee from 1936 and of AICC from 1947 to 1974, and remained the Minister of Finance, Revenue and ...
Anand Teltumbde, Indian scholar, writer, and human rights activist [7] [8] K.P. Ashwini, UN Special rapporteur on racism from 2022 [9] [10] Ayyankali, Indian social reformer [11] Gopal Baba Walangkar, activist [12] Immanuvel Sekaran, a freedom fighter and civil rights activist [13] Kuyili, freedom fighter and Commander in Chief of Velu Nachiyar ...