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She stood tall when India needed her and fearlessly fought the British rule and any corruptive force that came her way. She was a pioneer of human rights and women’s equality. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". Aruna Asaf Ali’s Independence and post-independence persona is impressive and deserves to be studied as she played an important role in freedom movement.
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Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Associated with numerous women organisations she was against giving reservation to women in jobs and law making bodies as she saw it as a badge of weakness and backwardness. She bemoaned the “lopsided” development of the country after independence. She was awarded the 1964 International Lenin Prize “for the promotion of peace among nations” and the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding for 1991. In May 1964, she rejoined the Congress Party. As mayor, she was instrumental in bringing about some major reforms in the civic administration, but soon got disillusioned with the bureaucracy and the government and left the post after 14 months. She was elected the first Mayor of Delhi in 1958-the only woman mayor the city has ever had. She is widely remembered for hoisting the Indian National Congress flag at the Gowalia Tank maidan in Bombay during the Quit India Movement, 1942. In 1950 she joined the Communist Party for a permanent revolution of her own fashioning, only to leave the party two years later. In 1928, he married Aruna Asaf Ali, a marriage that raised eyebrows on the grounds of religion (Asaf Ali was a Muslim while Aruna was a Hindu) and age difference (Aruna was 20 years junior to him). In 1947, she was elected President of Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee. In 1942, she hoisted the tricolour at Mumbai’s Gowalia Tank Grounds (now called August Kranti Maidan), after Maulana Abul Kalam Azad’s arrest. Aruna went to prison during the 19 Civil Disobedience Movements, and in 1940 in connection with Gandhiji’s call for Individual Satyagraha. At the age of 19, breaking age old social conventions she married Asaf Ali, a leading Delhi Congressman in 1928 who was to become India’s first Ambassador to the USA and later Governor of Orissa. Born on July 16, 1909, as Aruna Ganguli at Kalka in undivided Punjab, her family had a distinguished Brahmo lineage related to the family of Rabindranath Tagore.