The last seven years from 1941 to 47 were those when the women of Punjab province came forward and fought aboard men and suffered the same consequences as the men suffered. The decade 1931-40 was the period of direct action and women of Punjab region did not sit back at their homes and got active in disobeying the government by following the non-violent ways of Gandhi from 1930-34. The decade 1921-30, witnessed the direct involvement of girls of Punjab in the freedom struggle and these women came into the contact of M.K. Then these women victims and alternative sympathetic women directly jumped into the Non-Cooperation movement of 1920. The decade 1911-20 was the most important decade as the Jallianwala Bagh tragedy and therefore the martial law of 1919 acted as a catalyst for making ladies consciousness for fighting for the freedom of India. In 1901-10, political upheavals in the province of Bengal affected Punjabi women and few women showed their sympathy with the Bengali individuals. The article tells us the participation of women of Punjab in the nationalist movement from 1901-10, 1911-20, 1921-30, 1931-47. This article deals with the Indian Freedom Struggle and the contribution of Indian women in this war of Independence.
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