The women did us proud

Introduction to women freedom fighters

Preetilata Waddedar was an activist who attacked the armoury at Chittagong on January 22. She raided like a volcano and vanished.

Aruna Asaf Ali, broke the heavily cordoned off area and unfurled the tricolour.This made the police to get sleepless nights and a sense of defeat.

Kashibai,the widowed lady of Desai's family,Jainapur.She brought a Rolls Royce car. Once the DC of Bijapur asked her car for the use of his higher officer.She refused to give her car and told him that she would use it for drying cow dung cakes.That made him angry and he cancelled it's registration.Then she stuck to her word

Shakuntala Dhamankar, a twenty year old lady of Belgaum college,who serve the cause of the nation. She inspired the Indians and protested against the British.The police tried hard to arrest and now she was underground.Here she worked with Shankar Kurtakoti. She got married with him knowing that he would be imprisoned for at least 15-20 years. She expressed that she would proud to be the wife of imprisoned freedom fighter and prouder to be the widow of the freedom fighter.

Little known freedom fighters

Padmavatibai Burli, wife of great freedom fighter Bindacharya Burli. He breathed patriotism and lived patriotism. Padmavatibai led her silent protest against the British by feeding the freedom fighters. Once she was arrested while serving to Shakuntala Dabade and Shantabai Karmarkar.

Sarojini Naidu, known as 'the Nightingale of India' also a follower of Gandhiji and translated his philosophy of non-violence into reality.

Capt. Laxmi Swaminathan, was the commander of the Rani of Jhansi Regiment, the women's wing of the INA founded by Bose. She fought and defeated the British at Rangoon.

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya, was a freedom and led many struggles.She was a poetess, an artist and inspired through her writings.

Vimala Gulwadi and Hema Shilnolikar,who entered the court hall commanded judge to go back. They shouted slogans against British which inspired one of the Inioanpolice to quit his job.

Concept Map

Given below is the concept map of the chapter, it covers the main themes of the chapters.

Evaluation

Fill in the blanks

• ________ raided like volcano and vanished armoury.
• Sarojini Naidu was known as _________.
• ________ was the young lady of Belguam.

Add suitable prefixes to form the opposites

• countable

• fortunate

Give the synonyms for the following

• vanish

• agility

Additional Resources

A video created on Record My Desktop by teachers can be found here: http://youtu.be/V8X8STKaJJg

Contributed by Vaishali Giri

Contributed by: Mallikarjun, Girls PUC, Shorapur, Teerthappa, GHS, Geddalamari and Vijaylakshmi, GGHS Hunasagi, Shorapur