INDIAN HISTORY

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MODERN INDIA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who is regarded as ‘the Mother of the Indian Revolution’?
A
Rani Lakshmi Bai
B
Sarojini Naidu
C
Madam Bhikaji Cama
D
Priti Lata Waddedar
Explanation: 

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: -Complete answer: Madame Cama or Bhikaji Cama who raised the first tricolour flag of India in an international conference, even when India was 40 years away from independence has been referred to as the ‘Mother of Indian Revolution’.

Detailed explanation-3: -On 22 August 1907, Cama attended the second Socialist Congress at Stuttgart, Germany, where she described the devastating effects of a famine that had struck the Indian subcontinent. In her appeal for human rights, equality and autonomy from Great Britain, she unfurled what she called the “Flag of Indian Independence".

Detailed explanation-4: -Bhikaiji Rustom Cama, or Madam Cama was born on 24 September 1861 in Bombay. She was an outstanding lady of great courage, fearlessness, integrity, perseverance and passion for freedom. and is considered as the mother of Indian revolution because of her contributions to Indian freedom struggle.

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