AMRIT FESTIVAL OF INDEPENDENCE "A Tribute to Heroes of Indian Freedom Struggle"
India's Forgotten ...? Freedom Fighter
Anjana Devi Choudhary….?
Social Reform And Satyagraha
Anjana Devi Choudhary was born in Shrimadhopur in
Sikar district. Anjana Devi Chaudhary, at the age of 20, renounced the purdah
system and took a pledge to cooperate in the national freedom struggle.
Mrs. Anjana
Devi Choudhary was the wife of freedom fighter Ramnarayan Choudhary. She was the first woman who revolted against the feudal
atrocities. Anjana Devi
led the women's Bijolia peasant movement.
Social reforms
Anjana Devi awakened political consciousness among the
women of Mewar and Bundi from 1921 to 1924 and did the work of social reform
and Satyagraha. So he was arrested and exiled from Bundi state. He led a
procession of 500 women in Bijolia and later got the arrested farmers released.
She
was the first woman to be arrested in all the princely public.
Dedicated to Nation-Building
Mrs. Chaudhary guided the Satyagrahi peasant women in
Begun (Mewar). She was imprisoned twice for her participation in national
movements from 1932 to 1935. She did the service of Bhils in Dungarpur state in
1937 AD and she was busy running the Women's Information Department of
Bharat Sevak Samaj for five years. She supported her husband shoulder to
shoulder in the freedom struggle. Throughout her life, she continued to work
with a dedicated spirit for public service and nation-building.
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