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Sarala Devi Chaudhurani (born Sarala Ghosal; 9 September 1872 – 18 August 1945) was an Indian educationist and political activist, who founded Bharat Stree Mahamandal in Allahabad in 1910. This was the first national-level women's organization in India. One of the primary goals of the organization was to promote female education.
One such pioneer was Sarala Devi Chaudhurani. Sarala Devi was an exceptional woman best known for being the founder of the first women’s organisation in India – The Bharat Stree Mahamandal in Allahabad. Sarala Devi was also a writer, singer as well as a political activist and leader.
Sarla Devi Chaudhurani was a prominent freedom fighter from Bengal as well as Punjab. She was born in Kolkata in a Bengali family in 1872. The spirit of patriotism was infused in her by her mother Swarn Kumari who worked for the Swadeshi cause. Sarla worked as the editor of the Bengali Journal Bharti. She was a niece of Rabindranath Tagore and had connections with national leaders such as Satyendra Nath Tagore and Chaupekar brothers. She opened Laksmi Bhandar to make popular Swadeshi goods.
Sarala Devi (9 August 1904 – 4 October 1986) was an Indian independence activist, feminist, social activist, politician and writer. She was the first Odia woman to join the Non-cooperation movement in 1921 and the first Odia woman delegate of the Indian National Congress. She became the first woman to be elected to the Odisha Legislative Assembly on 1 April 1936.
Mar 6, 2020 · Sarala Devi, sometimes also referred to as Sarala Devi Chaudhurani, an honorific suffix added to her name during that time, was born in September 1872 to Swarnakumari Devi, Tagore’s elder sister, and Janakinath Ghoshal, one of the founding members of the Indian National Congress.Sarala Devi first came to live in Jorasanko, the ancestral home of the Tagores in north Calcutta, along with her siblings, when she was five years old, after her father went overseas to study law.
Sarala Devi Chaudhurani (1872-1945) was a writer, social worker and nationalist from West Bengal. She was the founder of the Bharat Stree Mahamandal in Allahabad in 1910. She was the first woman political leader from Bengal in the Indian independence struggle.
May 22, 2021 · Early in 1920, 47-year-old Sarala Devi Chaudhurani and 50-year-old Mohandas K. Gandhi pledged to write each other at least one letter per day. The intensity of their correspondence, and friendship, lasted barely one year. During this time a few hundred letters passed between them, for although there were gaps in letter-writing—as when they were together in the same place—there were also days when more than one letter was penned; for instance on 13 May 1920, Mohandas noted that he had ...
Oct 2, 2020 · To Gandhi, Sarala Devi appeared as a revelation. She had an electric effect on his senses, as historian Geraldine Forbes points out in her fine new book, Lost Letters And Feminist History: The Political Friendship Of Mohandas K. Gandhi And Sarala Devi Chaudhurani. A work of careful scholarship, the volume includes Gandhi’s surviving ...
Sep 13, 2012 · It presents a historical evaluation of Sarala Devi Chaudhurani and Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. It specifically determines the similarities and differences in the ideas and activities of these women from two different communities in colonial Bengal, Hindu-Brahmo and Muslim, and thus also sheds some light on contemporary Hindu and Muslim societies, their patterns of change during the colonial encounter, and the emergence among both the communities of a new generation of women. ...
Sarala Devi Chaudhurani was an Indian educationist and political activist, who founded Bharat Stree Mahamandal in Allahabad in 1910. This was the first national-level women's organization in India. One of the primary goals of the organization was to promote female education. The organization opened several offices in Lahore, Allahabad, Delhi, Karachi, Amritsar, Hyderabad, Kanpur, Bankura, Hazaribagh, Midnapur, and Kolkata to improve the situation of women all over India.
