60th to 62ndB.P.S.C. (Pre) 2016

Who is regarded as the “Mother of Indian Revolution”:

aAnnie Besant
bMadam Sarojini Naidu
cRamabai
dMadam Bhikaji Rustam Cama✓ Correct

Explanation

Madam Cama was born on 24 September 1861. Her parents were Parsis. Sorabji Framji Patel was her father. She married Rustam K. R. Cama, who was a lawyer and a social worker. Madam Cama served as the private secretary to Dadabhai Naoroji, a great pioneer leader of India’s national movement. Later, after coming in contact with some patriotic students and European intellectuals, she joined the freedom movement. She participated in the International Socialist Conference held at Stuttgart, Germany, on 22 August 1907. In this very conference, she unfurled the Indian tricolour flag. She was the first person to hoist the Indian flag on foreign soil or on an international platform. The flag hoisted there was a modified form of the Calcutta Flag. She is called the ‘Mother of the Indian Revolution’.

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