women freedom fighters

She wasn’t born an Indian national, and yet the passion that Nellie Sengupta had for the Freedom Struggle was one that deserved to be written about in history books.

These women were amongst the initial members of the armed independence movement lead by prominent Bengali revolutionary, Surya Sen, whose names would forever remain synonymous with the Chittagong Uprising.

Abadi Bano Begum, who later came to be known in Indian history as 'Bi Amma' was one of the important voices of the freedom struggle. At the time, she was one of the first Muslim women to participate in politics actively.

When most women were denied basic rights and preferred to stay within the four walls of their homes, she paid heed to Gandhi’s call for protests and mobilised other women to carry out demonstrations during the Quit India Movement.