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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.
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 ...
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]
"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]
Umabai Kundapur (1892–1992) was an Indian freedom fighter from Karnataka who was head of the women's wing of the Seva Dal, founded by N. S. Hardikar. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Personal life
The women freedom fighters of Odisha played a significant role in the Indian Freedom Struggle. Due to her anti-British government activities, she was imprisoned for two years. Parbati Giri was just 16 when she was in the forefront of agitation following Mahatma Gandhi's " Quit India " call.
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).
Tara Rani Srivastava was an Indian freedom fighter, and part of Mahatma Gandhi's Quit India Movement. [1] [2] She and her husband, Phulendu Babu, lived in the Saran district of Bihar. [3] In 1942, she and her husband were leading a march in Siwan towards the police station when he was shot by police. She nonetheless continued the march ...