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Aruna Asaf Ali (née Ganguly; 16 July 1909 – 29 July 1996) was an Indian educator, political activist, and publisher. 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.
In 1928, he married Aruna Asaf Ali, a marriage that raised eyebrows on the grounds of religion (Asaf Ali was a Muslim while Aruna was a Hindu) and age difference (Aruna was 20 years junior to him). She is widely remembered for hoisting the Indian National Congress flag at the Gowalia Tank maidan in Bombay during the Quit India Movement , 1942.
The National Federation of Indian Women is a women's organisation in India, the women's wing of the Communist Party of India. [1] [2] [3] It was established in 1954 June 4 by several leaders from Mahila Atma Raksha Samiti including Aruna Asaf Ali.
She was the younger sister of independence activist and educator Aruna Asaf Ali. [4] Their father Upendranath Ganguly was a restaurant owner who hailed from Barisal district of Eastern Bengal (now Bangladesh) but settled in United Provinces. [5] Her mother Ambalika Devi was the daughter of Brahmo scholar Trailokyanath Sanyal who wrote many ...
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Like her contemporaries Aruna Asaf Ali and Usha Mehta, she came to the forefront during the Quit India Movement and was arrested by British. She later worked closely with Mahatma Gandhi during the Partition riots. She accompanied him to Noakhali in 1946. [citation needed]
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