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- 4. An active participant in the Non cooperation and Quit India movements, she was martyred while leading a procession to take over a police station in West Bengal
- 5. Now known as one of the ‘Dalit Veeranganas’, she was martyred in Awadh during the 1857 Rebellion
- 8. A soldier in the Indian National Army, she set up and led the Rani of Jhansi Regiment
- 9. The sister of Jawaharlal Nehru and the first female governor of Maharashtra
- 10. A prominent Satyagrahi, she worked for women’s rights and founded the Andhra Mahila Sabha
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- 1. Became the first female governor of a state after independence
- 2. She started a secret radio station during the Quit India movement to broadcast messages from freedom fighters to the public
- 3. A freedom fighter from Assam, she was martyred at the age of 17 while trying to hoist the national flag during the Quit India movement
- 6. She is known as the ‘Grand Old Lady’ of the Indian independence struggle
- 7. A soldier in Rani Laxmibai’s army, she disguised herself as the queen to aid Lakshmibai’s escape during the war of 1857