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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.
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.
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 ...
Umabai was inspired to join the Indian independence movement by the procession of Bal Gangadhar Tilak's funeral on August 1st, 1920. [5] [6] When Mahatma Gandhi announced the Non-Cooperation Movement on September 4th, 1920, Umabaial, her brother Raghurama Rao, and husband Sanjeeva Rao decided to begin taking part in the movement. [7]
As India celebrated 77 years of independence from British colonial rule on Aug. 15, women around the country took to the streets in anger over a brutal case of alleged rape and murder that ...
Mithuben Hormusji Petit (11 April 1892 – 16 July 1973) was an Indian independence activist who participated in Mahatma Gandhi's Dandi March. [1] [2] A pioneer female independence activist, [3] [4] she was the Secretary of the Rashtriya Stree Sabha, a women's movement founded on Gandhian ideals.
Between 1921 and 1930, the provincial councils approved of women's franchise but with limitations. The number of women actually eligible to vote was very small. [15] In the 1920s, Naidu began to focus more on the nationalist movement as a means of achieving both women's rights and political independence. [25]
Lakshmi Sahgal (pronunciation ⓘ) (born Lakshmi Swaminathan; 24 October 1914 – 23 July 2012) 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.