The Life of Shri Mataji

FIGHTING FOR INDIA’S FREEDOM

Shri Mataji was a youth leader during the campaign to free India of British rule. In the 1942 Quit India Movement announced by Gandhi, she was arrested and put in jail along with other freedom fighters. Her activities led to expulsion from school. While in jail she was punished by being made to sit on a block of ice.

During the tensions which arose during Partition, when British India split into India and Pakistan, Shri Mataji showed again and again her vision for a world without religious and political fanaticism. She once confronted several British soldiers and her fearlessness made them stop their violence towards her countrymen. She also sheltered Muslim refugees and protected them from a gang looking for blood.