Madam bhikaiji Cama
"India must be free, India must be a republic, India must be united." this famous quote of Madam Bhikaiji Cama.
Madam Cama was the life and soul of Indian independence movement and one of the greatest petriots of India.
Madam Kama was born on 24 September 1861 in Mumbai to large and wealthy Parsi zoroastrian family.
In the 19th century, girls were not educated much. But Bhikaji learned languages like English,French ,German while staying at home.
Her family member used to call her Munni.She was also proficient in studies. At the age of 24, she got married to Rustamji Cama. Her in-lows were very wealthy but Madam Cama's mind become adept at liberting the country and taught the people living in huts.
In 1896, when the plague broke out in Mumbai, she went to the slums and served the people.
Her health failing, she moved to London with her husband in 2902. Where she met Dadabhai Navroji, after which her activism increased in the freedom struggle.
She would increase her friends, by secretly sending pistols as Christmas presents to Irish and Russian revolutionaries.
In London, she led the freedom movement of the country along with Shyamji Krishna Verma, Sardarsingh Rana,and Dadabhai Navroji.
In 1905, Lord Karzan partitioned Bangal, which started the Bangabhang movement in India and Madam Bhikaiji Cama declared her support for this movement from England.
In 1907, Madam Cama represented India at the International Socialist Congress Session in Sturtgard, Germany.In this session,she presented a strong proposal for complete independence.
In this convention,Madam Cama hostel the first national flag made by herself on foreign soil on 22 August, 1907,so she become the first woman to hoist the national flag of India and for this act she was known as" The mother of the Indian revolution".
Unfluring the national flag she said," I appeal to the fans of India's freedom to participate with this flag, vande Mataram ,vande Mataram".
She also started a newspaper called "vande Mataram".
She died on 13 August, 1936 at the age of 75 at the Parai hospital in Mumbai.
Let repeating, "let my India gain freedom and let democracy previl in my India".My bow to this countries hero who sacrificed her whole life for the country while staying on foreign soil.
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