Known as ‘Iron lady’, Durgabai Deshmukh was a great freedom fighter, a dedicated social worker and an adept lawyer. Born on July 15, 1909 in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, she got married at the ...

"Everyone should take Durgabai Deshmukh as a role model, a great social activist who worked for the poor and downtrodden and took active part in the Independence struggle," said Prof G S N Raju ...

Reckoned among the notable nation-builders of modern India, Durgabai Deshmukh devoted her boundless energies for the welfare of women. Her primary concern was on girls' education and on the ...

Durgabai Deshmukh’s vision and tenacity as a social ... One of the delights of the book is the manner in which an emotionally charged but intellectually clear empathy is expressed in very ...

Born in 1909 in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, Durgabai Deshmukh was married off at the age of eight and at 15, she had the courage and wherewithal to successfully withdraw from that marriage. In ending ...

KAKINADA: Durgabai Deshmukh, the eminent freedom fighter born ... Incidentally, even though she was a child, her marriage was performed with G. Subba Rao, as was the custom those days.

HYDERABAD: Born in Kakinada, the late freedom fighter and social activist Durgabai Deshmukh was instrumental in the Mahatma’s khadi movement. On the occasion of her centenary birth anniversary ...