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Ambujammal actively participated in the Non-Cooperation Movement and boycotted foreign goods and clothes — she was even imprisoned twice for six months in 1932. She dedicated her life to the cause of India's freedom and inspired several women to do the same. Women's welfare was at the top of her agenda.
The Indian independence movement had a long history in the Tamil-speaking districts of the then Madras Presidency going back to the 18th century.. The first resistance to the British was offered by the legendary Since then there had been rebellions by polygars such as the Puli Thevar, Veeramangai Velu Nachiyar, Muthu Vaduganatha Periyavudaya Thevar, Ondiveeran, Marudu brothers, Veerapandiya ...
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.
"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]
She started her political activism in 1921 with the Non-cooperation movement and later took part in the Neil Statue Satyagraha, Salt Satyagraha and Quit India Movement. Her courage was so well known that Mahatma Gandhi called her "Jhansi Rani of South India". When Gandhi came to Kadalur to meet Anjalai Ammal, the British government prohibited ...
A nationalist, he founded the Indian Home Rule Society, India House and The Indian Sociologist in London. Subhas Chandra Bose: A nationalist, he founded the Indian Legion in Nazi Germany and revamped the Indian National Army in Imperial Japan. Sri Aurobindo: A nationalist, he was arrested for leading the Alipore bomb conspiracy. Subodh Roy
India portal This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Indian independence activists . It includes independence activists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
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 ]