Bhikaiji Cama - Biography
She was born on 24 September 1861 in Bombay, now known as
Mumbai to an aristocratic Parsi family. Father Lawyer was a big businessman.
They are one of the wealthiest families in Bombay. Like many Parsi boys and
girls at the time, she attended the Alexandra Natter Girls Institute. Seeing
how she not only grew in discipline but also studied many languages with a
passion for linguistics. On August 3, 1885, she married Rustum Kama. He was not
only wealthy but also a lawyer who favored the British. Their married life is
not a source of happiness. So she began to use her energy in other social
activities. In October 1896, the Bombay region was hit by a drought. The plague
spread. The cama led a group at Grant Medical College. She also survived the plague
if care was taken to prevent it. Sent to Britain in 1901 for medical treatment.
While arranging a return trip to India in 1902, she was introduced to Shyam Ji Krishna
Varma, a prominent figure in Indian society, after hearing a lecture on
nationalism in Hyde Park. He was accompanied by Dadabhai Nauroji, President of
the Indian National Congress on the British Committee
Served as secretary. Together with Naoroji and Rana, Varma
founded the Indian Home Rule Society. However, she refused to give a written
statement that she would not take part in the national struggle to return to
India. Reached Paris the same year. There Rana, along with Godridge, founded the
Paris Indian Society. During the same period, he co-authored a number of works
and pamphlets on Indian independence with anonymous Indians. They were sent to
India by Pondicherry, a French colony. At the International Socialist
Conference in Stuttgart, Germany on August 22, 1907, she described the effects
of the famine in India. In her speech, she flagged off a flag demanding human
rights, equality, and liberation from the British. Established independence.
Kama, Vinayak Savarkar, s. This flag was designed with k Varma. It is then an
indicator of the national flag.
Madan Lal Dingra assassinated Curzonville, the then Secretary
of British India in 1909, and the Indian government held hostages in Great
Britain. Veer Savarkar is one of them. Marseille jumped out of the window at
Harbor and into the sea in 1910 as the ship was boarded to take him to court.
Their cama felt that others would be there for him. He was captured by the
British when he returned to a colony where they were late arriving. The British
government refused to hand over cama to them and they seized her assets in
India. Lenin, meanwhile, refused to let her go to Russia. After that Pun Crush
was influenced by the Sapu Great Movement and fought for gender equality. Only
then did half the people appear in his sermon in Egypt. Where is the other
half? Are the Egyptian sons the Egyptian daughter? Where are your mother and
sisters? Where are your daughters and wives? Asked. But she especially felt
that Indian independence was important. When asked about the right to vote for
some women there, she replied that first Indians had the right to vote after
independence. When World War I first broke out in 1904, all but England and
France became allies and all but Kama and Rana fled Paris. In 1915 she was placed
in Vichy by the French government. She was released in 1917 due to ill health
and was allowed to stay in Bordeaux on the condition that she sign at the
police station every week. cama remained in hiding until 1935 and reached
Bombay with the help of Jahangir when her request for permission to return to
her homeland was granted. She died at the Parsi General Hospital on August 13,
1936, at the age of 74, 9 months later. Bikaji Kama donated his assets of Rs
54000 to his family’s Agni Temple in his name to build a girls ’hostel in
Alibhai Peti. Roads in many cities and towns are named after her. On January
26, 1962, the Indian Postal Department issued a stamp in her memory. The
national flag she erected in Stuttgart in 1907 is now on display at the Saffron
Library in Pune.
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