They included Purnima Banerjee, a member of the All India Women's Conference; Kamla Chaudhry, a feminist writer and independence activist; Malati Choudhury, an activist in the nationalist movement; Durgabai Deshmukh, an independence activist, lawyer, social worker, and women's rights activist; Kaur, co-founder of the All India Women's Conference; Sucheta Kriplani, a nationalist activist and member of the women's committee of the Indian National Congress; Annie Mascarene, a lawyer and activist from the independence movement; Hansa Mehta, president of the All India Women's Conference; Naidu, a member of the Women's Indian Association; Pandit, a member of the All India Women's Conference; Begum Aizaz Rasul, a member of the All India Women's Conference; Renuka Ray, a member of the All India Women's Conference; Leela Roy, a founder of the militant women's political organisation Congress Mahila Sangha, in Bengal; Ammu Swaminathan, a member of the Women's Indian Association; and Dakshayani Velayudhan, a teacher and delegate in the Cochin Legislative Assemby.