Bhikaiji Cama - Biography

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Bhikaiji Cama - Biography

" Bhikaiji Cama, the hero who fought for Indian independence and hoisted the first Indian flag in Germany"

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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