2022-03-31 Thu

Matangini Hazra was an Indian revolutionary and a participant in the Indian Independence Movement. She was short the death of the British government in front of the Tamluk Police Station on September 29, 1942.

Matangini Hazra was born on October 19, 1870, in a small village Hogla, near Tamluk, in a poor family. She was a daughter of a poor peasant; she did not receive any formal education. She got married at an early age became widowed at the age of eighteen without bearing any offspring.

Matangi Hazra started participating in the Indian Freedom Movement in 1905. In 1932, she took part in the Non-Cooperation Movement and was arrested for breaking the Salt Act. Though she was released, but arrested again, due to her participation in protesting for the abolition of the tax. After her release, she became an active member of the Indian National Congress and took to spinning her own Khadi. Hazra was so inspired by Gandhi, that she became a devoted follower of Gandhi, earning herself the name, “Gandhi Buri”.

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