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CAPT. LAKSHMI
SAHGAL
Capt. Lakshmi
Sahgal was born into a highly political, nationalist family.
She had her early political education at home, when
the family boycotted English goods and spoke only
Malayalam and Tamil. She was politically active in Madras
University, but did not agree with Gandhi's call to
students to give up their education and join the Civil
Disobedience Movement. Instead she participated in the
formation, in 1943, of the Rani Jhansi Regiment of the
Indian National Army (INA), the first and only all-woman
regiment in modern Indian history. Trained in warfare and
weaponry, this regiment participated actively in the
INA's struggle for freedom until 1946, when the INA was
disbanded.
A Revolutionary Life: Memoirs of a Political Activist
(Kali for Women, 1997)
is one of the few first-person accounts of that time, a
document of immense political and historical value, that
offers a unique perspective on women in armed struggle and
the freedom movement.
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