Chart 202 - Great Indian Women 1

Great Indian Women Chart

Spectrum Chart - 202 : Great Indian Women

1. Madam Cama – Madam Cama was a prominent personality of the Indian Nationalist Movement. On August 22, 1907, she raised the flag for India's Independence at the International Socialist Conference in Stuttgart, Germany.
2. Kasturba Gandhi - Kasturba Mohandas Gandhi was the wife of Mahatma Gandhi. Working closely with her husband, Kasturba Gandhi became a political activist fighting for civil rights and Indian independence from the British.
3. Rani Laxmibai - Laxmibai, the Rani of Jhansi, born as Manikarnika, was the queen & warrior of the Maratha-ruled Jhansi State, situated in the north-central part of India. She was one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and became for Indian nationalists a symbol of resistance to the British Raj.
4. Noor Jahan - Noor Jahan was an empress who belonged to the great Mughal Dynasty. Noor Jahan was the wife of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir. Her real name was Mehr-un-Nisaa. Noor Jahan's great poetic works, along with her interests in the traditional Persian culture of perfume-making, jewellery, rich fabrics and newest designed fashionable attire, form a significant source of the Mughal's contribution to India.
5. Mumtaz Mahal - Mumtaz Mahal was the beloved wife of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, in whose fond memory and tribute to her beauty was the grand monument of the Taj Mahal built.
6. Dr. Annie Besant – Dr. Annie Besant was a prominent Theosophist, social reformer, political leader, women's rights activist, writer and orator. She was of Irish origin and made India her second home. She fought for the rights of Indian In 1916, she founded Home Rule League which advocated self rule by Indians. She became the President of Indian National Congress in 1917. She was the first woman to hold that post.
7. Vijaya Laxmi Pandit - Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru Pandit was an Indian diplomat and politician. She was the sister of Jawaharlal Nehru. She was the first Indian woman to hold a cabinet post. In 1953, she became the first woman President of the United Nations General Assembly.
8. Indira Gandhi - Indira Gandhi was a key 20th century stateswoman, a central figure of the Indian National Congress party and to date the only female Prime Minister of India. She served as Prime Minister from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984.
9. Sarojini Naidu - Sarojini Naidu was a distinguished poet & a renowned freedom fighter. She was famously known as Bharatiya Kokila (The Nightingale of India). Sarojini Naidu was the first Indian woman to become the President of the Indian National Congress and the first woman to become the governor of a state in India.
10. Mother Teresa - Mother Teresa was one of the great servants of humanity. She was an Albanian Catholic nun who came to India and founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata. Her selfless work among the poverty-stricken people of Kolkata is an inspiration for people all over the world and she was honored with Nobel Prize for her work.
11. Rajmata Scindia - Vijaya Raje Scindia known popularly as the Rajmata Scindia of Gwalior was a prominent Indian political personality. In the days of the British Raj, as consort of the last ruling Maharaja of Gwalior, Jivajirao Scindia, she ranked among the highest royal figures of the land. In later life, she became a politician of considerable influence and was elected repeatedly to both houses of the Indian parliament.
12. Protima Bedi - Protima Bedi was an Indian model turned Odissi exponent. Her most important contribution to the field of classical Indian dance was with the establishment of 'Nrityagram', a dance institute, near Bangalore.
13. Mrinali Sarabhai - Mrinalini Sarabhai was an Indian classical dancer, choreographer and instructor. She was the founder of the Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, an institute for imparting training in dance, drama, music and puppetry, in the city of Ahmedabad. She trained over 18,000 students in Bharatnatyam and Kathakali.
14. Sonal Mansingh - Sonal Mansingh is an Indian classical dancer and choreographer of Odissi dancing style; who is also proficient in other Indian classical dancing styles including Bharatnatyam, Kuchipudi and Chhau. She has won many awards, including the Padma Bhushan (1992), Sangeet Natak Akademi Awardin 1987 and the Padma Vibhushan, India's the second highest civilian award, in 2003.

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