Bhikaji cama biography of barack

Indian independence movement activist (1861 – 1936)

Bhikhaiji Rustom Cama^{[n 1]} (24 September 1861 – 13 August 1936) or simply as, Madam Cama, was one of the prominent figures in the Indian independence movement.

Bhikaiji Cama was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) in a large, affluent ParsiZoroastrian family.^[1] Her parents, Sorabji Framji Patel and Jaijibai Sorabji Patel, were well known in the city, where her father Sorabji—a lawyer by training and a merchant by profession—was an influential member of the Parsi community.

She unfurled one of the earliest versions of flag of independent India on August 22, 1907 and she was the first person to hoist an Indian flag in a foreign nation, at the International Socialist Conference at Stuttgart.^[2]

Like many Parsi girls of the time, Bhikhaiji attended Alexandra Girls' English Institution.^[3] Bhikhaiji was by all accounts a diligent, disciplined child with a flair for langu