WOMEN FREEDOM FIGHTERS IN ASSAM: NEGOTIATING A HISTORICAL DISCONNECT

Abstract

Jahangir Alom Abstract: Women Freedom Fighters in Assam: Hare basically discussed about the women participation in the mainstream freedom movement has never seemed to be a bottom-to-top approach because the contribution of women to the freedom struggle remains grossly understudied the Historical analytical method which involves interpretation of Historical facts in all the three major national movements in 1921,1930 and 1942 quite a few women like Nalinibala Devi, Malati Phookan etc of all are analysis in this paper. The history of India’s freedom movement in the remote areas of North East has not been adequately reflected in empirical research. It has either been inadequately mentioned or deliberately ignored. As a result, sixty two years after independence, several pages of history of india’s freedom movement have remained unwritten. The contributions of many sections of the Indian society still remain unaccounted for due to lack of proper study and evidence. How freedom movement underwent metamorphosis in the remote areas of India, particularly in the north east, has remained largely in the domain of oblivion. What concerns the role of students, women, worker, farmers, businessmen, tribal communities. Women’s participation in the mainstream freedom movement has never seemed to be a bottom-to-top approach because the contribution of women to the freedom struggle remains grossly under studied. A fair deal to fair sex has remained as much nightmarish as a daydream in all soci...