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	'''Perin Ben Captain''' (1888–1958) was an Indian freedom activist, social worker, and the grand daughter of renowned Indian intellectual and leader, [[Dadabhai Naoroji]].<ref name="Stree Shakthi">{{cite web \| url=http://www.streeshakti.com/bookP.aspx?author=10 \| title=Stree Shakthi \| publisher=Stree Shakthi \| date=2015 \| accessdate=31 March ~~2022~~}}</ref> The [[Government of India]] honoured her in 1954 with the award of [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest Indian civilian award for her contributions to the country,<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web \| url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf \| title=Padma Shri \| publisher=Padma Shri \| date=2015 \| accessdate=11 November ~~2022~~}}</ref> placing her among the first group of recipients of the award.		'''Perin Ben Captain''' (1888–1958) was an Indian freedom activist, social worker, and the grand daughter of renowned Indian intellectual and leader, [[Dadabhai Naoroji]].<ref name="Stree Shakthi">{{cite web \| url=http://www.streeshakti.com/bookP.aspx?author=10 \| title=Stree Shakthi \| publisher=Stree Shakthi \| date=2015 \| accessdate=31 March 2015}}</ref> The [[Government of India]] honoured her in 1954 with the award of [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest Indian civilian award for her contributions to the country,<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web \| url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf \| title=Padma Shri \| publisher=Padma Shri \| date=2015 \| accessdate=11 November 2014}}</ref> placing her among the first group of recipients of the award.

	==Biography==		==Biography==
	Perin Ben was born on 12 October 1888<ref name="Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47">{{cite book \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JT_qqzH3f3IC&q=Rashtriya+Stree+Sabha+perin+captain&pg=PA104 \| title=Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47 \| publisher=Har-Anand Publications \| author=Anup Taneja \| year=2005 \| pages=244 \| isbn=9788124110768}}</ref> in [[Mandvi]], in [[Kutch District\|Kutch district]], in the Indian state of [[Gujarat]], in a [[Parsi People\|Parsi]] family.<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /> Her father, Ardeshir, was a medical doctor and the eldest son of [[Dadabhai Naoroji]],<ref name="Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47" /> and her mother, Virbai Dadina, was a house wife.<ref name="Zoarastrians">{{cite web \| url=http://zoroastrians.net/2012/08/27/tracing-dadabhai-naorojis-descendants/ \| title=Zoarastrians \| publisher=Zoarastrians \| date=2015 \| accessdate=1 April ~~2022~~}}</ref> Born as the eldest of eight children, she lost her father in 1893 when she was only 5 years old and did her early education in Mumbai. Later, she joined [[University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle]], from where she secured a degree in [[French language\|French]]. While in Paris, she came into the circle of [[Bhikaiji Cama]] and started participating in their activities. It is reported that she was involved with the plan to release [[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar]] after his arrest in London.<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /><ref name="Making Brittain">{{cite web \| url=http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/vinayak-damodar-savarkar \| title=Making Britain \| publisher=The Open University \| date=2015 \| accessdate=1 April ~~2022~~}}</ref> During this time, she attended the Egyptian National Congress at Brussels in 1910 along with Savarkar<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /> and Bhikaiji Cama.<ref name="Make Me a Man!: Masculinity, Hinduism, and Nationalism in India">{{cite book \| title=Make Me a Man!: Masculinity, Hinduism, and Nationalism in India \| publisher=SUNY Press \| author=Sikata Banerjee \| year=2012 \| pages=191 \| isbn=9780791483695}}</ref><ref name="The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History: 4 Volume Set">{{cite book \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EFI7tr9XK6EC&q=Egyptian+National+Congress+at+Brussels&pg=PA272 \| title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History: 4 Volume Set \| publisher=Oxford University Press \| editor=Bonnie G. Smith \| year=2008 \| pages=2752 \| isbn=9780195148909}}</ref> She was also involved with the Polish émigré organisations based in Paris, which were revolting against the Czarist rule in Russia.<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /> After returning to India in 1911, Perin had an opportunity to meet [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and was influenced by his ideals.<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /> By 1919, she started working with him, and in 1920, she took to [[Swadeshi movement]] and started wearing Khadi.<ref name="Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47" /> In 1921, she assisted in establishing the Rashtriya Stree Sabha, a women's movement based on [[gandhian]] ideals.<ref name="Shodhganga">{{cite web \| url=http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/10603/20552/11/11_chapter%206.pdf \| title=Shodganga \| publisher=Shodganga \| date=2015 \| accessdate=1 April ~~2022~~}}</ref>		Perin Ben was born on 12 October 1888<ref name="Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47">{{cite book \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JT_qqzH3f3IC&q=Rashtriya+Stree+Sabha+perin+captain&pg=PA104 \| title=Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47 \| publisher=Har-Anand Publications \| author=Anup Taneja \| year=2005 \| pages=244 \| isbn=9788124110768}}</ref> in [[Mandvi]], in [[Kutch District\|Kutch district]], in the Indian state of [[Gujarat]], in a [[Parsi People\|Parsi]] family.<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /> Her father, Ardeshir, was a medical doctor and the eldest son of [[Dadabhai Naoroji]],<ref name="Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47" /> and her mother, Virbai Dadina, was a house wife.<ref name="Zoarastrians">{{cite web \| url=http://zoroastrians.net/2012/08/27/tracing-dadabhai-naorojis-descendants/ \| title=Zoarastrians \| publisher=Zoarastrians \| date=2015 \| accessdate=1 April 2015}}</ref> Born as the eldest of eight children, she lost her father in 1893 when she was only 5 years old and did her early education in Mumbai. Later, she joined [[University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle]], from where she secured a degree in [[French language\|French]]. While in Paris, she came into the circle of [[Bhikaiji Cama]] and started participating in their activities. It is reported that she was involved with the plan to release [[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar]] after his arrest in London.<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /><ref name="Making Brittain">{{cite web \| url=http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/vinayak-damodar-savarkar \| title=Making Britain \| publisher=The Open University \| date=2015 \| accessdate=1 April 2015}}</ref> During this time, she attended the Egyptian National Congress at Brussels in 1910 along with Savarkar<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /> and Bhikaiji Cama.<ref name="Make Me a Man!: Masculinity, Hinduism, and Nationalism in India">{{cite book \| title=Make Me a Man!: Masculinity, Hinduism, and Nationalism in India \| publisher=SUNY Press \| author=Sikata Banerjee \| year=2012 \| pages=191 \| isbn=9780791483695}}</ref><ref name="The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History: 4 Volume Set">{{cite book \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EFI7tr9XK6EC&q=Egyptian+National+Congress+at+Brussels&pg=PA272 \| title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History: 4 Volume Set \| publisher=Oxford University Press \| editor=Bonnie G. Smith \| year=2008 \| pages=2752 \| isbn=9780195148909}}</ref> She was also involved with the Polish émigré organisations based in Paris, which were revolting against the Czarist rule in Russia.<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /> After returning to India in 1911, Perin had an opportunity to meet [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and was influenced by his ideals.<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /> By 1919, she started working with him, and in 1920, she took to [[Swadeshi movement]] and started wearing Khadi.<ref name="Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47" /> In 1921, she assisted in establishing the Rashtriya Stree Sabha, a women's movement based on [[gandhian]] ideals.<ref name="Shodhganga">{{cite web \| url=http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/10603/20552/11/11_chapter%206.pdf \| title=Shodganga \| publisher=Shodganga \| date=2015 \| accessdate=1 April 2015}}</ref>

	Perin married Dhunjisha S. Captain, a lawyer, in 1925,<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /><ref name="Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47" /> but the couple had no children.<ref name="Zoarastrians" /> She continued her social activism after marriage and served on a number of councils of the Indian National Congress. She was the first woman president of Bombay Provincial Congress Committee, when she got elected to the post in 1930. She participated in the [[Civil disobedience movement]] initiated by Mahatma Gandhi and was incarcerated,<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /> the first of the several imprisonments she endured during the [[Indian freedom movement]].{{citation needed\|date=January ~~2022~~}} When Gandhi Seva Sena was reconstituted in the 1930s, she was made its honorary General Secretary, a post she held till her death in 1958.<ref name="Stree Shakthi" />		Perin married Dhunjisha S. Captain, a lawyer, in 1925,<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /><ref name="Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47" /> but the couple had no children.<ref name="Zoarastrians" /> She continued her social activism after marriage and served on a number of councils of the Indian National Congress. She was the first woman president of Bombay Provincial Congress Committee, when she got elected to the post in 1930. She participated in the [[Civil disobedience movement]] initiated by Mahatma Gandhi and was incarcerated,<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /> the first of the several imprisonments she endured during the [[Indian freedom movement]].{{citation needed\|date=January 2017}} When Gandhi Seva Sena was reconstituted in the 1930s, she was made its honorary General Secretary, a post she held till her death in 1958.<ref name="Stree Shakthi" />

	When the [[Government of India]] introduced the '''Padma''' civilian award system in 1954,<ref name="Padma Awards System">{{cite web \| url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/Scheme-PadmaAwards-050514.pdf \| title=Padma Awards System \| publisher=Press Information Bureau, Government of India \| date=2015 \| accessdate=1 April ~~2022~~}}</ref> Perin Captain was included in the first list of awardees for [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Stree Shakthi" />		When the [[Government of India]] introduced the '''Padma''' civilian award system in 1954,<ref name="Padma Awards System">{{cite web \| url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/Scheme-PadmaAwards-050514.pdf \| title=Padma Awards System \| publisher=Press Information Bureau, Government of India \| date=2015 \| accessdate=1 April 2015}}</ref> Perin Captain was included in the first list of awardees for [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Stree Shakthi" />

	==References==		==References==

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	'''Perin Ben Captain''' (1888–1958) was an Indian freedom activist, social worker, and the grand daughter of renowned Indian intellectual and leader, [[Dadabhai Naoroji]].<ref name="Stree Shakthi">{{cite web \| url=http://www.streeshakti.com/bookP.aspx?author=10 \| title=Stree Shakthi \| publisher=Stree Shakthi \| date=2015 \| accessdate=31 March ~~2015~~}}</ref> The [[Government of India]] honoured her in 1954 with the award of [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest Indian civilian award for her contributions to the country,<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web \| url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf \| title=Padma Shri \| publisher=Padma Shri \| date=2015 \| accessdate=11 November ~~2014~~}}</ref> placing her among the first group of recipients of the award.		'''Perin Ben Captain''' (1888–1958) was an Indian freedom activist, social worker, and the grand daughter of renowned Indian intellectual and leader, [[Dadabhai Naoroji]].<ref name="Stree Shakthi">{{cite web \| url=http://www.streeshakti.com/bookP.aspx?author=10 \| title=Stree Shakthi \| publisher=Stree Shakthi \| date=2015 \| accessdate=31 March 2022}}</ref> The [[Government of India]] honoured her in 1954 with the award of [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest Indian civilian award for her contributions to the country,<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web \| url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf \| title=Padma Shri \| publisher=Padma Shri \| date=2015 \| accessdate=11 November 2022}}</ref> placing her among the first group of recipients of the award.

	==Biography==		==Biography==
	Perin Ben was born on 12 October 1888<ref name="Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47">{{cite book \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JT_qqzH3f3IC&q=Rashtriya+Stree+Sabha+perin+captain&pg=PA104 \| title=Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47 \| publisher=Har-Anand Publications \| author=Anup Taneja \| year=2005 \| pages=244 \| isbn=9788124110768}}</ref> in [[Mandvi]], in [[Kutch District\|Kutch district]], in the Indian state of [[Gujarat]], in a [[Parsi People\|Parsi]] family.<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /> Her father, Ardeshir, was a medical doctor and the eldest son of [[Dadabhai Naoroji]],<ref name="Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47" /> and her mother, Virbai Dadina, was a house wife.<ref name="Zoarastrians">{{cite web \| url=http://zoroastrians.net/2012/08/27/tracing-dadabhai-naorojis-descendants/ \| title=Zoarastrians \| publisher=Zoarastrians \| date=2015 \| accessdate=1 April ~~2015~~}}</ref> Born as the eldest of eight children, she lost her father in 1893 when she was only 5 years old and did her early education in Mumbai. Later, she joined [[University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle]], from where she secured a degree in [[French language\|French]]. While in Paris, she came into the circle of [[Bhikaiji Cama]] and started participating in their activities. It is reported that she was involved with the plan to release [[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar]] after his arrest in London.<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /><ref name="Making Brittain">{{cite web \| url=http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/vinayak-damodar-savarkar \| title=Making Britain \| publisher=The Open University \| date=2015 \| accessdate=1 April ~~2015~~}}</ref> During this time, she attended the Egyptian National Congress at Brussels in 1910 along with Savarkar<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /> and Bhikaiji Cama.<ref name="Make Me a Man!: Masculinity, Hinduism, and Nationalism in India">{{cite book \| title=Make Me a Man!: Masculinity, Hinduism, and Nationalism in India \| publisher=SUNY Press \| author=Sikata Banerjee \| year=2012 \| pages=191 \| isbn=9780791483695}}</ref><ref name="The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History: 4 Volume Set">{{cite book \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EFI7tr9XK6EC&q=Egyptian+National+Congress+at+Brussels&pg=PA272 \| title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History: 4 Volume Set \| publisher=Oxford University Press \| ~~author~~=Bonnie G. Smith ~~(Editor)~~ \| year=2008 \| pages=2752 \| isbn=9780195148909}}</ref> She was also involved with the Polish émigré organisations based in Paris, which were revolting against the Czarist rule in Russia.<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /> After returning to India in 1911, Perin had an opportunity to meet [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and was influenced by his ideals.<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /> By 1919, she started working with him, and in 1920, she took to [[Swadeshi movement]] and started wearing Khadi.<ref name="Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47" /> In 1921, she assisted in establishing the Rashtriya Stree Sabha, a women's movement based on [[gandhian]] ideals.<ref name="Shodhganga">{{cite web \| url=http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/10603/20552/11/11_chapter%206.pdf \| title=Shodganga \| publisher=Shodganga \| date=2015 \| accessdate=1 April ~~2015~~}}</ref>		Perin Ben was born on 12 October 1888<ref name="Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47">{{cite book \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JT_qqzH3f3IC&q=Rashtriya+Stree+Sabha+perin+captain&pg=PA104 \| title=Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47 \| publisher=Har-Anand Publications \| author=Anup Taneja \| year=2005 \| pages=244 \| isbn=9788124110768}}</ref> in [[Mandvi]], in [[Kutch District\|Kutch district]], in the Indian state of [[Gujarat]], in a [[Parsi People\|Parsi]] family.<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /> Her father, Ardeshir, was a medical doctor and the eldest son of [[Dadabhai Naoroji]],<ref name="Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47" /> and her mother, Virbai Dadina, was a house wife.<ref name="Zoarastrians">{{cite web \| url=http://zoroastrians.net/2012/08/27/tracing-dadabhai-naorojis-descendants/ \| title=Zoarastrians \| publisher=Zoarastrians \| date=2015 \| accessdate=1 April 2022}}</ref> Born as the eldest of eight children, she lost her father in 1893 when she was only 5 years old and did her early education in Mumbai. Later, she joined [[University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle]], from where she secured a degree in [[French language\|French]]. While in Paris, she came into the circle of [[Bhikaiji Cama]] and started participating in their activities. It is reported that she was involved with the plan to release [[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar]] after his arrest in London.<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /><ref name="Making Brittain">{{cite web \| url=http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/vinayak-damodar-savarkar \| title=Making Britain \| publisher=The Open University \| date=2015 \| accessdate=1 April 2022}}</ref> During this time, she attended the Egyptian National Congress at Brussels in 1910 along with Savarkar<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /> and Bhikaiji Cama.<ref name="Make Me a Man!: Masculinity, Hinduism, and Nationalism in India">{{cite book \| title=Make Me a Man!: Masculinity, Hinduism, and Nationalism in India \| publisher=SUNY Press \| author=Sikata Banerjee \| year=2012 \| pages=191 \| isbn=9780791483695}}</ref><ref name="The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History: 4 Volume Set">{{cite book \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EFI7tr9XK6EC&q=Egyptian+National+Congress+at+Brussels&pg=PA272 \| title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History: 4 Volume Set \| publisher=Oxford University Press \| editor=Bonnie G. Smith \| year=2008 \| pages=2752 \| isbn=9780195148909}}</ref> She was also involved with the Polish émigré organisations based in Paris, which were revolting against the Czarist rule in Russia.<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /> After returning to India in 1911, Perin had an opportunity to meet [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and was influenced by his ideals.<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /> By 1919, she started working with him, and in 1920, she took to [[Swadeshi movement]] and started wearing Khadi.<ref name="Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47" /> In 1921, she assisted in establishing the Rashtriya Stree Sabha, a women's movement based on [[gandhian]] ideals.<ref name="Shodhganga">{{cite web \| url=http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/10603/20552/11/11_chapter%206.pdf \| title=Shodganga \| publisher=Shodganga \| date=2015 \| accessdate=1 April 2022}}</ref>

	Perin married Dhunjisha S. Captain, a lawyer, in 1925,<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /><ref name="Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47" /> but the couple had no children.<ref name="Zoarastrians" /> She continued her social activism after marriage and served on a number of councils of the Indian National Congress. She was the first woman president of Bombay Provincial Congress Committee, when she got elected to the post in 1930. She participated in the [[Civil disobedience movement]] initiated by Mahatma Gandhi and was incarcerated,<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /> the first of the several imprisonments she endured during the [[Indian freedom movement]].{{cn\|date=January ~~2017~~}} When Gandhi Seva Sena was reconstituted in the 1930s, she was made its honorary General Secretary, a post she held till her death in 1958.<ref name="Stree Shakthi" />		Perin married Dhunjisha S. Captain, a lawyer, in 1925,<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /><ref name="Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47" /> but the couple had no children.<ref name="Zoarastrians" /> She continued her social activism after marriage and served on a number of councils of the Indian National Congress. She was the first woman president of Bombay Provincial Congress Committee, when she got elected to the post in 1930. She participated in the [[Civil disobedience movement]] initiated by Mahatma Gandhi and was incarcerated,<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /> the first of the several imprisonments she endured during the [[Indian freedom movement]].{{citation needed\|date=January 2022}} When Gandhi Seva Sena was reconstituted in the 1930s, she was made its honorary General Secretary, a post she held till her death in 1958.<ref name="Stree Shakthi" />

	When the [[Government of India]] introduced the '''Padma''' civilian award system in 1954,<ref name="Padma Awards System">{{cite web \| url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/Scheme-PadmaAwards-050514.pdf \| title=Padma Awards System \| publisher=Press Information Bureau, Government of India \| date=2015 \| accessdate=1 April ~~2015~~}}</ref> Perin Captain was included in the first list of awardees for [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Stree Shakthi" />		When the [[Government of India]] introduced the '''Padma''' civilian award system in 1954,<ref name="Padma Awards System">{{cite web \| url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/Scheme-PadmaAwards-050514.pdf \| title=Padma Awards System \| publisher=Press Information Bureau, Government of India \| date=2015 \| accessdate=1 April 2022}}</ref> Perin Captain was included in the first list of awardees for [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Stree Shakthi" />

	==References==		==References==
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'''Perin Ben Captain''' (1888–1958) was an Indian freedom activist, social worker, and the grand daughter of renowned Indian intellectual and leader, [[Dadabhai Naoroji]].<ref name="Stree Shakthi">{{cite web | url=http://www.streeshakti.com/bookP.aspx?author=10 | title=Stree Shakthi | publisher=Stree Shakthi | date=2015 | accessdate=31 March 2015}}</ref> The [[Government of India]] honoured her in 1954 with the award of [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest Indian civilian award for her contributions to the country,<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Shri | publisher=Padma Shri | date=2015 | accessdate=11 November 2014}}</ref> placing her among the first group of recipients of the award.

==Biography==
Perin Ben was born on 12 October 1888<ref name="Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JT_qqzH3f3IC&q=Rashtriya+Stree+Sabha+perin+captain&pg=PA104 | title=Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47 | publisher=Har-Anand Publications | author=Anup Taneja | year=2005 | pages=244 | isbn=9788124110768}}</ref> in [[Mandvi]], in [[Kutch District|Kutch district]], in the Indian state of [[Gujarat]], in a [[Parsi People|Parsi]] family.<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /> Her father, Ardeshir, was a medical doctor and the eldest son of [[Dadabhai Naoroji]],<ref name="Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47" /> and her mother, Virbai Dadina, was a house wife.<ref name="Zoarastrians">{{cite web | url=http://zoroastrians.net/2012/08/27/tracing-dadabhai-naorojis-descendants/ | title=Zoarastrians | publisher=Zoarastrians | date=2015 | accessdate=1 April 2015}}</ref> Born as the eldest of eight children, she lost her father in 1893 when she was only 5 years old and did her early education in Mumbai. Later, she joined [[University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle]], from where she secured a degree in [[French language|French]]. While in Paris, she came into the circle of [[Bhikaiji Cama]] and started participating in their activities. It is reported that she was involved with the plan to release [[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar]] after his arrest in London.<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /><ref name="Making Brittain">{{cite web | url=http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/vinayak-damodar-savarkar | title=Making Britain | publisher=The Open University | date=2015 | accessdate=1 April 2015}}</ref> During this time, she attended the Egyptian National Congress at Brussels in 1910 along with Savarkar<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /> and Bhikaiji Cama.<ref name="Make Me a Man!: Masculinity, Hinduism, and Nationalism in India">{{cite book | title=Make Me a Man!: Masculinity, Hinduism, and Nationalism in India | publisher=SUNY Press | author=Sikata Banerjee | year=2012 | pages=191 | isbn=9780791483695}}</ref><ref name="The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History: 4 Volume Set">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EFI7tr9XK6EC&q=Egyptian+National+Congress+at+Brussels&pg=PA272 | title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History: 4 Volume Set | publisher=Oxford University Press | author=Bonnie G. Smith (Editor) | year=2008 | pages=2752 | isbn=9780195148909}}</ref> She was also involved with the Polish émigré organisations based in Paris, which were revolting against the Czarist rule in Russia.<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /> After returning to India in 1911, Perin had an opportunity to meet [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and was influenced by his ideals.<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /> By 1919, she started working with him, and in 1920, she took to [[Swadeshi movement]] and started wearing Khadi.<ref name="Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47" /> In 1921, she assisted in establishing the Rashtriya Stree Sabha, a women's movement based on [[gandhian]] ideals.<ref name="Shodhganga">{{cite web | url=http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/10603/20552/11/11_chapter%206.pdf | title=Shodganga | publisher=Shodganga | date=2015 | accessdate=1 April 2015}}</ref>

Perin married Dhunjisha S. Captain, a lawyer, in 1925,<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /><ref name="Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47" /> but the couple had no children.<ref name="Zoarastrians" /> She continued her social activism after marriage and served on a number of councils of the Indian National Congress. She was the first woman president of Bombay Provincial Congress Committee, when she got elected to the post in 1930. She participated in the [[Civil disobedience movement]] initiated by Mahatma Gandhi and was incarcerated,<ref name="Stree Shakthi" /> the first of the several imprisonments she endured during the [[Indian freedom movement]].{{cn|date=January 2017}} When Gandhi Seva Sena was reconstituted in the 1930s, she was made its honorary General Secretary, a post she held till her death in 1958.<ref name="Stree Shakthi" />

When the [[Government of India]] introduced the '''Padma''' civilian award system in 1954,<ref name="Padma Awards System">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/Scheme-PadmaAwards-050514.pdf | title=Padma Awards System | publisher=Press Information Bureau, Government of India | date=2015 | accessdate=1 April 2015}}</ref> Perin Captain was included in the first list of awardees for [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Stree Shakthi" />

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