Punjabi women in freedom struggle: An overview

An attempt in this paper has been made to reconstruct the role of Punjabi women who took active part in the freedom struggle to made India stand stronger for her freedom. The purpose of this article to assess the role of women in the freedom struggle of the Punjab from 1900-1947. It was the period when the social set-up in India was marked by backwardness, orthodoxy, conservatism and traditionalism. The Punjabi women played an activist role in Swadeshi Movement, Rowlatt Act Agitation, Gadhar Movement, Gandhian non-violent movements as well as in revolutionary movements to liberate India. There is an effort to bring some of them into limelight that fought dedicatedly for the freedom of country from Punjab. Though some of these women were less educated but had such a marvelous understanding that when they got an opportunity to prove their might and caliber, they did not lag behind.