Question

Information about role of women in non cooperation movement launched 1920

Answer 1

Chatterjee writes how women were shining through this time – Basanti Debi (Mrs C.R.Das), Urmila Debi, and Suniti Debi, were well-known women organisers during the Non-Cooperation Movement. In 1925, Sarojini Naidu was elected President of Indian National Congress, the first Indian woman to hold that post.

Women were part of not just the Gandhian movement but were also revolutionaries in their own right. One such woman Chatterjee points to is Sarala Debi Ghoshal. She writes, “She was not a participant but a patron of revolutionary groups, and is said to have got her friends and acquaintances to take a pledge on the map of India that they would be prepared to sacrifice their lives for the country’s independence. She patronised akharas (physical culture clubs) where young men were taught judo, karate, swordplay, and wrestling.”