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  2. Women of the Indian independence movement - Wikipedia

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    Sucheta Kripalani (25 June 1908 – 1 December 1974) was a freedom fighter and politician, who was India's first female Chief Minister, serving as the head of the Government of Uttar Pradesh from 1963 to 1967. [34] She came to the forefront during the Quit India Movement and was arrested by British.

  3. Kiran Bala Bora - Wikipedia

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    Kiran Bala Bora Born 1904 (1904) North Haiborgaon, Nagaon, Assam, India Died January 1993 (aged 88–89) Panigaon Choiali, Nagaon, Assam, India Occupation(s) Freedom Fighter, Social Activist Years active 1919–1947 Known for Social Reformer Spouse Sanat Ram Bora Children 6 Parents Kamal Chandra Pandit (father) Saroj Aidew (mother) Kiran Bala Bora (1904 - 8 January 1993) was a freedom fighter ...

  4. Satyavati Devi (born 1905) - Wikipedia

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    Satyavati Devi (28 February 1905 – 26 October 2010) was an Indian freedom fighter and Gandhian. At the time of her death on 26 October 2010, she was India's oldest living freedom fighter. [1] She was born in a Punjabi Hindu family in Tarn Taran district. She did her schooling from Kanya Maha Vidyalay, Jalandhar. She married Lala Achint Ram in ...

  5. Lakshmi Sahgal - Wikipedia

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    "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]

  6. Kamala Das Gupta - Wikipedia

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    She worked for women's vocational training at the Congress Mahila Shilpa Kendra and the Dakshineshwar Nari Swabalambi Sadan. She edited the women's journal Mandira for many years. She authored two memoirs in Bengali, Rakter Akshare (In Letters of Blood, 1954) and Swadhinata Sangrame Nari (Women in the Freedom Struggle, 1963).

  7. Satyavati Devi - Wikipedia

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    Jailed women political freedom fighters composed poems and nationalist tracts, which were smuggled out and published. One of the pieces written by Satyavati Devi, titled ‘Bahin Satyavati Ka Jail Sandesh’ (Sister Satyavati's Prison Message) goes as follows: [6]

  8. Umabai Kundapur - Wikipedia

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    Umabai was inspired to join the Indian independence movement by the procession of Bal Gangadhar Tilak's funeral on August 1st, 1920. [5] [6] When Mahatma Gandhi announced the Non-Cooperation Movement on September 4th, 1920, Umabaial, her brother Raghurama Rao, and husband Sanjeeva Rao decided to begin taking part in the movement. [7]

  9. Abbakka Chowta - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] She was also one of the earliest Indians to fight European colonialism and is sometimes regarded as the 'first woman freedom fighter of India'. [5] [6] In the state of Karnataka, she is celebrated along with Rani Kittur Chennamma, Keladi Chennamma, Rani Chennabhairadevi and Onake Obavva, as the foremost women warriors and patriots. [7]