Lakshmi Sahgal

Lakshmi Sahgal (also Sehgal; Hindi: लक्ष्मी सहगल, Laksmi Sahagal; born October 24, 1914 in Madras, † July 23, 2012 in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh ) was an Indian politician and during the Second World War officer of the Indian National Army. She was also known as Captain Lakshmi.

Life

Sahgal was the daughter of the Tamil criminal moth S. Swaminathan and the social worker, freedom fighter and women's rights activist AV Ammukutty (also known as Ammu Swaminathan ) born. She studied medicine at Madras Medical College and was certified gynecologist. In 1940 she went to Singapore and practiced there.

After the surrender of the British against the Japanese in 1942 they came into contact with Indian soldiers and in 1943 finally with Subhash Chandra Bose, who wanted to found a women's regiment ( Rani Jhansi Regiment of ) within the Indian National Army ( INA). Lakshmi joined this brigade and received the rank of Colonel. She was militarily as medically involved. In the provisional government Azad Hind she paused a minister. In 1946 she was captured by the British and taken to India, but later released without trial.

In 1947 she married Colonel Prem Sahgal - a former member of the Indian National Army and one of four exemplary accused of INA in Kriegsverbecherprozess in the Red Fort - in Lahaur and they settled down in Kanpur, where Lakshmi worked as a doctor.

1971 Lakshmi Sahgal member of the Communist Party of India was ( Marxist). In 2002 she was nominated for the presidency of the four left parties Communist Party of India ( Marxist), Communist Party of India, Revolutionary Socialist Party and All India Forward Bloc is the only opposition candidate against APJ Abdul Kalam, however, was clearly inferior.

In 1998 she was awarded the Padma Vibhushan.

Their daughter Subhashini Ali was married to the director Muzaffar Ali and is a prominent Communist politician and trade unionist. Their son Shaad Ali, Sahgals grandson, is also a director.

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