INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Madame Cama is known as the ‘Mother of Indian Revolution’. She was married to Rustom Cama, a wealthy lawyer based in Bombay. Having worked as a social worker during the Bombay Plague epidemic in 1897, she became ill herself and was sent to Britain in 1901/2 for treatment.

Detailed explanation-2: -Bhikaiji Rustom Cama was a prominent figure in the Indian Independence Struggle. She is famous for hosting the precursor to the Indian National Flag on foreign soil. For this act, she came to be known as the ‘Mother of the Indian Revolution’.

Detailed explanation-3: -It stands as a memorial to 70, 000 soldiers of the British Indian Army who died in between 1914 and 1921 in the First World War, in France, Flanders, Mesopotamia, Persia, East Africa, Gallipoli and elsewhere in the Near and the Far East, and the third Anglo-Afghan War.