Bhikaiji Cama was born in Bombay in a large, affluent Parsi Zoroastrian family.
10 Facts About Bhikaiji Cama
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Bhikaiji Cama unfurled the first version of flag of independent India on August 21,1907, when an International Socialist Conference was being held at Stuttgart, a city in Germany.
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Bhikaiji Cama's husband was a wealthy, pro-British lawyer who aspired to enter politics.
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Bhikaiji Cama was preparing to return to India in 1904 when she came in contact with Shyamji Krishna Varma, who was well known in London's Indian community for fiery nationalist speeches he gave in Hyde Park.
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Together with Naoroji and Singh Rewabhai Rana, Cama supported the founding of Varma's Indian Home Rule Society in February 1905.
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Together with other notable members of the movement for Indian sovereignty living in exile, Bhikaiji Cama wrote, published and distributed revolutionary literature for the movement, including Bande Mataram and later Madan's Talwar.
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On 22 August 1907, Bhikaiji Cama attended the second Socialist Congress at Stuttgart, Germany, where she described the devastating effects of a famine that had struck the Indian subcontinent.
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In January 1915, the French government deported Rana and his whole family to the Caribbean island of Martinique, and Bhikaiji Cama was sent to Vichy, where she was interned.
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Bikhaiji Bhikaiji Cama bequeathed most of her personal assets to the Avabai Petit Orphanage for girls, now the Bai Avabai Framji Petit Girls' High School, which established a trust in her name.
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In 2004, politicians of the BJP, India's political party, attempted to identify a later design as the flag Bhikaiji Cama raised in Stuttgart.