panaji recognised freedom fighters may male story half less touch wrote manohar rai sardesai youth women even standpoint portuguese military officer pakle know daring even women like one c look times women even step says naguesh would know thick things karmali sentenced years immure september serving five aguada reis magos towering books ribandar home talks times quepem rivona shelter group freedom fighters villages rallying growing interest women politics join goa liberation struggle portuguese find helped improve status women society abolishing sati polygamy could remarry emphasis education emboldened place society long women turned tables suggest dr ram manohar lohia meeting june demanding civil liberties goad women take liberation struggle turned large numbers margao seen regularly meetings protests satyagraha wake times loyal fervour brought fierce discussions expressed inside talk goa liberation movement find role played womanhood rarely glorified fact whole pantheon women faced unimaginable physical genial excruciate quest free freedom fighters young woman across caste classes hated portuguese regime inspired resign young vatsala pandurang kirtani stood portuguese police commandant meet margao june questioned raising slogan jai hind defiance organize guild fearless lass turns around says words viva salazar sate pride jai hind galvanise promptly testimony bravery goan women exemption fighters regain codices infamous tribunal milatar territorial military court established portuguese panaji prosecute involved freedom war machine solicit manuscripts maintained archive section make insightful reading especially stirring accounts womanhood freedom fighters persecution faced portuguese char freedom fighter went deaf unrivalled ear work over received according military prominent sudha madhav joshi popularly known sudhatai mardol ponda sudhatai contain mapusa garden square carrying amerind flag sentenced years imprisonment slapped penalty escudos per day additional suspension political rights years including internment two years grounds security measures allegation attempting entice local population commit criminal offense lusitanian purab pissurlem sattari helped carry arms belgaum forests mohan ranade goa one mission open fire portuguese police bullet hit leg injured purab escaped mining area belonging dayanand bandodkar managed get mining truck made across goa border belgaum receive braganca sisters also feature chronological record goa struggle dr beatriz berta de menezes braganca daughter late luis delaware menezes conduct figure struggle defied ban civil liberties speaking publicly strode alongside uncle b cunha protest marches speeches south also founded fortnightly bombay holler free goa toured india call for military action colonists also chief goa wing indian national congress meeting planned june margao cunha prevented speaking boldly took law shoved car abandoned roadside sinari profoundly involved activist struggle disengage goa says women contributed lot goa freedom movement despite women suppressed society days came forward involvement negligible even manhandle portuguese policemen deter lusitanian certainly hold back women tortured on a regular basis imprisoned subjected humiliation interrogation intimidation even face political adversity bullying colonial forces known stood hodarkar arrested sentenced military court possessing insurgent lit proceeding poinguinnim margao operated across goa border guidance peter alvares secretary national congress goa meant would often trek forests access border sindhu deshpande hodarkar pop the question satyagraha february margao arrested distributing pamphlets shown physical torture male political prisoners underwent drubbing