Kanaklata Barua
Topic: The National Movement: Gandhian Era · NCERT: Class 10, Ch 2 "Nationalism in India"
Meaning
Kanaklata Barua was a young girl from Assam, aged about seventeen, who was killed in the Quit India movement of 1942. She led a procession that tried to raise the national flag over a police station, and the police shot her dead. She stands for the large part women and young people played in Quit India, even in far-off regions.
Example
On 20 September 1942 Kanaklata Barua led a procession at Gohpur, in Assam, to hoist the tricolour at the local police station. She was shot while holding the flag and became a lasting symbol of courage in Assam.
Don't confuse with
- Matangini Hazra: she was another woman martyr of Quit India, also shot in September 1942. She was an elderly woman from Tamluk in Bengal, while Kanaklata was a teenager from Assam.
Related concepts
- Provincial elections of 1937
- Congress ministries 1937-39
- Wardha scheme of basic education
- Congress Socialist Party
- Haripura session 1938
- Tripuri crisis 1939
- Forward Bloc
- Second World War
- Lord Linlithgow
- Resignation of Congress ministries