Accamma Cherian, an inspirational leader of the freedom movement in Travancore, Kerala, she was given the name 'Jhansi Rani of Tranvancore' by Mahatma Gandhi.Sucheta Kripalani, a prominent freedom fighter, became India's first woman Chief Minister of the UP Government.Durgawati Devi was the brave woman who provided safe passage to Bhagat Singh after the killing of John Saunders and much more during her revolutionary days.Subhadra Kumari Chauhan was one of the greatest Hindi poets, who was also a prominent figure in the freedom movement.Bishni Devi Shah, a woman who inspired a large number of people in Uttarakhand to join the freedom movement.Padmaja Naidu, the daughter of Sarojini Naidu and a freedom fighter in her own right, who would later become Governor of West Bengal and a humanitarian after Independence.Chakali Ilamma was a revolutionary woman who fought against the injustice of zamindars during the Telangana rebellion in the mid-1940s.Gulab Kaur was a freedom fighter who abandoned her own hopes and dreams of a life abroad to fight for and mobilise the Indian people against the British Raj.Matangini Hazra was a brave freedom fighter from Bengal, who laid down her life while agitating against the British.Jhalkari Bai, was a woman soldier who grew to become one of the key advisors to the Rani of Jhansi and a prominent figure in the First War of Indian Independence, 1857.
Velu Nachiyar, the queen of Sivaganga was the first Indian queen to wage war against the British East India Company.Rani Abakka, the Queen of Ullal, Karnataka fought and defeated the mighty Portuguese in the 16th century.She was also awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1992 and the Bharat Ratna posthumously in 1997.She remained active in politics, becoming Delhi's first Mayor.Known for her independent streak, she even disobeyed Gandhi’s request to surrender herself in 1946. She was politically not very active after her release, until 1942.Other women co-prisoners refused to leave the premises unless she was also released and gave in only after Mahatma Gandhi intervened.She was arrested, and not released in 1931 under the Gandhi-Irwin Pact which stipulated release of all political prisoners.She became a member of Indian National Congress and participated in public processions during the Salt Satyagraha.This event of hoisting the flag was followed by an uproar among the people and the emergence of several young leaders such as Ram Manohar Lohia, Jai Prakash Narayan, SM Joshi.She is widely remembered for hoisting the Indian National flag at the Gowalia Tank maidan, Bombay during a Quit India Movement in 1942, giving the movement one of its most long-lasting images.She was popularly known as the 'Grand Old Lady' of the Independence Movement.Aruna Asaf Ali was an Indian educator, political activist, and publisher.Recently, the government released a pictorial book on India’s Women Unsung Heroes of Freedom Struggle as part of Azadi ka Mahotsav.
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