Indian Women Freedom Fighters Chart |
Spectrum Chart - 683 : Indian Women Freedom Fighters
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. Capt. Lakshmi Sehgal - Lakshmi Sehgal
was a revolutionary of the Indian independence movement, an officer
of the Indian National Army and the Minister of Women's Affairs in
the Azad Hind government. Sehgal is commonly referred to in India as
"Captain Lakshmi".
3. Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay - Kamaladevi
Chattopadhyay was an Indian social reformer and freedom fighter. She
is most remembered for her contribution to the Indian independence
movement for being the driving force behind the renaissance of Indian
handicrafts, handlooms and theatre in independent India and for
upliftment of the socio-economic standard of Indian women by
pioneering the co-operative movement.
4. Rani Laxmi Bai - 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.
5. 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.
6. Aruna Asaf Ali - Aruna Asaf Ali was an
Indian independence activist. She is widely remembered for hoisting
the Indian National Congress flag at the Gowalia Tank maidan in
Bombay during the Quit India Movement, 1942. She received India's
highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, posthumously in 1997.
7. Hansa Mehta - Hansa Mehta was a
reformist, social activist, educator, independence activist and
writer from India. She organised picketing of shops selling foreign
clothes, liquor and participated in other freedom movement activities
as per the advice of Mahatma Gandhi. She was even arrested and sent
to jail by the British.
8. Pritilata Waddedar - Pritilata Waddedar
was a Bengali revolutionary nationalist. Pritilata joined a
revolutionary group headed by Surya Sen. She led a team of fifteen
revolutionaries in a 1932 attack on the Pahartali European Club. The
revolutionaries torched the club and were later caught by the British
police. To avoid getting arrested, Pritilata consumed cyanide and
died.
9. Rajkumari Amrit Kaur - Rajkumari Amrit
Kaur was a freedom fighter and a social activist. For her
participation in Dandi March in 1930, British Raj authorities
imprisoned her. In 1942, she participated in the Quit India Movement
and was imprisoned again.
10. 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.
11. Kamla Nehru - Kamala Nehru was a
freedom fighter & wife of Jawaharlal Nehru. Kamala was involved
with the Nehrus in the national movement, she emerged into the
forefront, in the Non Cooperation movement of 1921, she organised
groups of women in Allahabad and picketed shops selling foreign cloth
and liquor. She was arrested on two occasions for involvement in
independence struggle activities.
12. Sucheta Kriplani - Sucheta Kriplani was
an Indian freedom fighter and politician. She came to the forefront
during the Quit India Movement. She later worked closely with Mahatma
Gandhi during the Partition riots. She was also the founder of All
India Mahilla Congress, established in 1940.
13. 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.
14. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit - Vijaya Lakshmi
Nehru Pandit was an Indian diplomat and politician. She was the first
Indian woman to hold a cabinet post. In 1937 she was elected to the
provincial legislature of the United Provinces and was designated
minister of local self-government and public health. She held the
latter post until 1939 and again from 1946 to 1947.
15. Usha Mehta - Usha Mehta was a Gandhian
and freedom fighter of India. She is also remembered for organising
the Congress Radio, also called the Secret Congress Radio, an
underground radio station, which functioned for few months during the
Quit India Movement of 1942.
16. Begam Hazrat Mahal - Begum Hazrat Mahal
also known as Begum of Awadh. She rebelled against the British East
India Company during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. She took charge of
the affairs in the state of Awadh and seized control of Lucknow. She
also arranged for her son, Prince Birjis Qadra, to become Wali
(ruler) of Awadh. However, he was forced to abandon this role after a
short reign. She finally found asylum in Nepal where she died in
1879.
17. Durgabai Deshmukh - Durgabai Deshmukh
was an Indian freedom fighter, lawyer, social worker and politician.
She was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India and of the
Planning Commission of India. She was a follower of Mahatma Gandhi in
India's struggle for freedom from the British Raj and a prominent
social reformer who participated in Gandhi-led Satyagraha activities.
This led to British Raj authorities imprisoning her three times.
18. Kalpana Datta - Kalpana Datta was an
Indian independence movement activist and a member of the armed
independence movement led by Surya Sen, which carried out the
Chittagong armoury raid in 1930. She served as a relief worker during
the 1943 Bengal famine and during the Partition of Bengal.
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