Abstract
Sarala Devi Chaudhurani, arguably the first woman political leader in the Indian freedom movement, belonged to the Hindu-Brahmo community, which had played a leading role in the nineteenth-century reform movement in Bengal. In order to contextualise Sarala, the people have to recall that this was the time of the Swadeshi Movement in Bengal a protest against Lord Curzon's Partition of Bengal in 1905. Sarala had often challenged traditional norms, but in this crucial area of her life, marriage, she had to bow to her parents' wishes. It was perhaps not fair to Sarala this unceremonious marriage to an elderly widower whom she had not known and who took her away to Punjab, far from her field of work where she had carved out a distinct niche for herself. There is no evidence to indicate whether the marriage was happy or not.
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