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{{Short description|Hindu nationalist leader}}
{{EngvarB|date=January 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}}
{{Infobox Hindu leader
| name = '''Sadhvi Ritambhara'''
| image = Sadhvi_Rithambara_(cropped).jpg
| religion = [[Hinduism]]
| birth_place =Doraha, [[Ludhiana district]], Punjab <ref name=exp24/>
|birth_date = {{bda|1963|12|31}} <ref name=exp24/>
| nationality = Indian
| parents =
| founder = founder/chairperson of [[Durga Vahini]].
| guru =
| philosophy = [[Hinduism]]
| website =
}}'''Sadhvi Ritambhara''' (born 31 December 1963)<ref name=exp24>{{cite web|title=Among the invitees at Ram Temple consecration ceremony was Sadhvi Ritambhara |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/who-is/ayodhya-ram-temple-consecration-invitee-who-is-sadhvi-ritahbhara-9123058/|date= 23 January 2024|website=Indian Express}}</ref> is a Hindu activist,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=T. N. M. |date=2025-01-26 |title=Sadhvi Ritambhara: Hindutva rabble rouser and Durga Vahini founder awarded Padma Bhushan |url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/news/sadhvi-ritambhara-hindutva-rabble-rouser-and-durga-vahini-founder-awarded-padma-bhushan |access-date=2025-05-29 |website=The News Minute |language=en}}</ref> public speaker and nationalist ideologue<ref name=":4">{{Cite book|url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203379585|title=Appropriating Gender : Women's Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia|last=Basu|first=Amrita|publisher=Routledge|year=1998|isbn=9780203379585|editor-last=Jeffery|editor-first=Patricia|location=New York|pages=15–26|chapter=Appropriating Gender|editor-last2=Basu|editor-first2=Amrita|chapter-url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203379585/chapters/10.4324/9780203379585-5|doi=10.4324/9780203379585-5}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/xk81jk680|title=Hindu wife, Hindu nation: community, religion, and cultural nationalism|last=Sarkar|first=Tanika|publisher=Indiana University Press|year=2001|chapter=Aspects of Contemporary Hindutva Theology: The Voice of Sadhvi Ritambhara|isbn=978-0-253-34046-7 |chapter-url=https://www.fulcrum.org/epubs/n870zr08h}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sangari|first=Kumkum|date=1993|title=Consent, Agency and Rhetorics of Incitement|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=28|issue=18|pages=877|issn=0012-9976|jstor=4399675}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sugirtharajah|first=Sharada|date=2002|title=Hinduism and Feminism: Some Concerns|journal=Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion|volume=18|issue=2|pages=104|issn=8755-4178|jstor=25002442}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=JAFFRELOT|first=CHRISTOPHE|date=2010|title=Abhinav Bharat, the Malegaon Blast and Hindu Nationalism: Resisting and Emulating Islamist Terrorism|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=45|issue=36|pages=51–58|issn=0012-9976|jstor=25742046}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315588292/|title=Indian Feminisms : Law, Patriarchies and Violence in India|last=Gangoli|first=Geetanjali|publisher=Routledge|year=2007|isbn=9781315588292|chapter=Conclusions|doi=10.4324/9781315588292|chapter-url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315588292/chapters/10.4324/9781315588292-11}}</ref> who is the founder-chairperson of [[Durga Vahini]], the women's wing of the [[Vishva Hindu Parishad]] (VHP), established in 1991.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kapur|first=Ratna|date=1996|title=Who Draws the Line? Feminist Reflections on Speech and Censorship|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=31|issue=16/17|pages=WS19|issn=0012-9976|jstor=4404055}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Cossman|first1=Brenda|last2=Kapur|first2=Ratna|date=1996|title=Secularism: Bench-Marked by Hindu Right|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=31|issue=38|pages=2627|issn=0012-9976|jstor=4404599}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Navlakha|first=Gautam|date=1995|title=Politics of Silhouetted Anger|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=30|issue=7/8|pages=367|issn=0012-9976|jstor=4402404}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/oct/19ayo2.htm|title=Babri mosque was a 450-year-old stigma: Giriraj Kishore |date=19 October 2001|work=[[Rediff.com]]|access-date=14 August 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/08/stories/2007010805840300.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070121035406/http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/08/stories/2007010805840300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 January 2007|title=Unite under RSS|date=8 January 2007|work=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=14 August 2009}}</ref> She gained national prominence with VHP in the late 1980s through the ''Jan Jagran Abhiyan'', and in the 1990s during the run up to the [[Babri Masjid demolition]]. Subsequently, she was falsely accused in the [[Liberhan Commission]] report, though later acquitted by the CBI court in 2020.<ref name=exp24/><ref>{{cite web|title=Ram Mandir event Diwali for all Hindus' — Ritambhara says movement leaders can't be forgotten |url=https://theprint.in/politics/ram-mandir-event-diwali-for-all-hindus-ritambhara-says-movement-leaders-cant-be-forgotten/474219/|website=The Print|date=4 August 2020}}</ref>

In January 2025, Sadhvi Ritambhara was conferred with India's third-highest civilian award, the [[Padma Bhushan]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Padma Awards 2025 announced |url=https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2096285 |website=pib.gov.in}}</ref>

[[File: Sadhvi Rithambara tying ‘Rakhi’ to the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, on the occasion of ‘Raksha Bandhan’, in New Delhi on August 10, 2014.jpg|thumb|Sadhvi Ritambhara and prime minister Narendra Modi on the occasion of [[Raksha Bandhan]], 2014.]]

==Early life==
Sadhvi Ritambhara was born as Nisha in at [[Doraha, Ludhiana|Doraha]] town in [[Ludhiana]] district of [[Punjab, India|Punjab]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19950531-for-me-hinduism-connotes-nationalism-sadhvi-ritambhara-807364-1995-05-30|title=Portrait of defiance|date=31 May 1995|work=[[India Today]]|access-date=20 March 2014 | first=N.K. | last=Singh}}</ref><ref name="B&P259">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ag7qRiZqYZoC|title=Right-wing women: from conservatives to extremists around the world|last=Ghosh|first=Bishnupriya|publisher=Routledge|year=2002|isbn=0-415-92778-1|editor-last=Bacchetta|editor-first=Paola|location=New York|chapter=Queering Hindutva : Unruly Bodies and Pleasures in Sadhvi Ritambhara's Performances|doi=10.4324/9780203479711|editor-last2=Power|editor-first2=Margaret|chapter-url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203479711/chapters/10.4324/9780203479711-27}}</ref>

She got her [[diksha]] from ''Swami Paramanand'', at the age of sixteen and having become his disciple, followed him to his [[ashram]] in [[Haridwar]] and then, in his tours across India, while being primarily trained in spirituality.<ref name = B&P259/><ref name=":0">{{Citation|last=Jaffrelot|first=Christophe|chapter=The Vishva Hindu Parishad: Structures and Strategies|date=1999|pages=191–212|editor-last=Haynes|editor-first=Jeff|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-1-349-27038-5_9|isbn=9781349270385|title=Religion, Globalization and Political Culture in the Third World}}</ref>

She entered the ''Margdarshak Mandal'' as a member of the [[Vishva Hindu Parishad]], the organisation primarily organised Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Mukti Andolan and related to [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]] (RSS).<ref name="B&P259" />

==Activism==
Ritambhara gained public prominence through her roles in the [[Vishwa Hindu Parishad]] (VHP).<ref name="B&P259" /> She being a Sadhvi who renounced the world and living a life of ascetics (incl. herself) she never went into mainstream politics, she went for a reconstruction of Hinduism through selective reading of Bhagavad Gita.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|url=https://www.questia.com/library/120087534/everyday-nationalism-women-of-the-hindu-right-in|title=Everyday Nationalism: Women of the Hindu Right in India|last=Menon|first=Kalyani Devaki|date=2010|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=9780812222340|chapter=Violent Dharma|jstor=j.ctt3fj1wh|chapter-url=https://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9780812202793/9780812202793.80/9780812202793.80.xml|access-date=16 November 2019|archive-date=16 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191116181659/https://www.questia.com/library/120087534/everyday-nationalism-women-of-the-hindu-right-in|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Make me a man! : masculinity, Hinduism, and nationalism in India|last=Banerjee|first=Sikata|publisher=State University of New York Press|year=2005|isbn=1423743857|location=Albany, NY|chapter=In the Crucible of Hindutva: Women and Masculine Hinduism|oclc=62750461}}</ref>

=== Speeches ===
During 1989–1992, Ritambhara disseminated several public-speeches that urged for waging a war against Anti Nationalists;{{efn|One of her speech had called for those who did not pay tribute to their ancestors shall quitt India (read:Hindus).<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.questia.com/library/117286642/a-place-at-the-multicultural-table-the-development|jstor=j.ctt5hj9tk|title=A Place at the Multicultural Table: The Development of an American Hinduism|chapter= Forging an Official Hinduism in India : Hindu Umbrella Organizations|last=Kurien|first=Prema A.|date=2007|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=9780813540559}}</ref>}} cassettes of those vitriolic outbursts were played at numerous temples and public places in India. Filled with rage and shrillness, the speeches heavily borrowed from gendered imagery; portraying the Hindu nation as a female body undergoing desecration by non-Hindus (and thus losing her morality), she drew parallels with rapes of Hindu women during partition<ref>{{Citation|last1=Basu|first1=Subho|title=Knowledge for Politics: Partisan Histories and Communal Mobilization in India and Pakistan|date=2005|work=Partisan Histories: The Past in Contemporary Global Politics|pages=111–126|editor-last=Friedman|editor-first=Max Paul|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-1-137-09150-5_7|isbn=9781137091505|last2=Das|first2=Suranjan|editor2-last=Kenney|editor2-first=Padraic}}</ref> and appealed to Hindu masculinity for reclaiming their lands, attracting large numbers of men, in the process.<ref name="B&P259" /><ref name="Pant">{{Cite journal|last=Pant|first=Niraj|date=1 May 1997|title=Facilitating Genocide : Women as Fascist Educators in the Hindutva Movement|url=http://www.proxsa.org/resources/ghadar/v1n1/niraj.html|journal=Ghadar|volume=1|issue=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151025140744/http://www.proxsa.org/resources/ghadar/v1n1/niraj.html|archive-date=25 October 2015}}</ref><ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Niranjana|first=Seemanthini|date=1999-03-01|title=Off the Body: Further Considerations on Women, Sexuality and Agency|journal=Bulletin (Centre for Women's Development Studies)|language=en|volume=6|issue=1|pages=1–19|doi=10.1177/097152159900600101|s2cid=144543435|issn=0970-5899}}</ref>

Equating the Muslims with lemon in milk to comparing them with flies, who statistically were mass-breeding to out-populate the Hindus.<ref name="B&P259" /><ref name=":3" /> With historical sketches subsumed various classes and castes under a common banner of Hindu nationalism; some scholars have identified this agglomeration as the most valuable objective, fulfilled by Ritambhara and associate women.<ref name="B&P259" />

Ritambhara has been widely noted to be the single most powerful voice behind the whipping up of pro-Hindu sentiments across the nation, in the run-ups to the demolition of Babri Masjid; there was an overwhelming sense of passion, urgency and spontaneity, oft-accompanied by dramatic physical posturing, which instilled a collective feeling, among the audience.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sarkar|first=Tanika|date=1993-12-01|title=The Women of the Hindutva brigade|journal=Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars|volume=25|issue=4|pages=16–24|doi=10.1080/14672715.1993.10416135|issn=0007-4810|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hfWQAiM5a7oC|title=The Violence of Development: The Political Economy of Gender|last=Butalia|first=Urvashi|date=2002|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=9781842772072|editor-last=Kapadia|editor-first=Karin|pages=228|language=en|chapter=Confrontation and Negotiation}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Loomba|first=Ania|date=1993|title=Dead Women Tell No Tales: Issues of Female Subjectivity, Subaltern Agency and Tradition in Colonial and Post-Colonial Writings on Widow Immolation in India|journal=History Workshop|issue=36|pages=223|issn=0309-2984|jstor=4289259}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bharucha|first=Rustom|date=1995|title=Dismantling Men: Crisis of Male Identity in 'Father, Son and Holy War'|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=30|issue=26|pages=1611|issn=0012-9976|jstor=4402945}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Chakravarti|first1=Uma|last2=Chowdhury|first2=Prem|last3=Dutta|first3=Pradip|last4=Hasan|first4=Zoya|last5=Sangari|first5=Kumkum|last6=Sarkar|first6=Tanika|date=1992|title=Khurja Riots 1990-91: Understanding the Conjuncture|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=27|issue=18|pages=951|issn=0012-9976|jstor=4397832}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uywnx2IHH8cC|title=The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics: 1925 to the 1990s : Strategies of Identity-building, Implantation and Mobilisation (with Special Reference to Central India)|last=Jaffrelot|first=Christophe|date=1996|publisher=Hurst|isbn=9781850653011|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=A Concise History of Modern India|last1=Metcalf|first1=Barbara D.|last2=Metcalf|first2=Thomas R.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2012|isbn=9781139207805|chapter=Democratic India at the Turn of the Millennium: Prosperity, Poverty, Power|doi=10.1017/CBO9781139207805|chapter-url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/concise-history-of-modern-india/democratic-india-at-the-turn-of-the-millennium-prosperity-poverty-power/199E60170F792CB01F7C6B73FCAA9961}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mazumdar|first=Sucheta|date=1995-03-01|title=Women on the March: Right-Wing Mobilization in Contemporary India|journal=Feminist Review|language=en|volume=49|issue=1|pages=1–28|doi=10.1057/fr.1995.1|s2cid=143731934|issn=1466-4380}}</ref> She was one of the three key women leaders of the movement, the other two being [[Uma Bharati]] and [[Vijayaraje Scindia]]; their leadership was largely responsible for the involvement of women in the movement and the form it took.<ref name="2009-08-18">{{cite book|title=Femmes et politique en Inde et au Népal|last=Lama-Rewal|first=Stéphanie T.|date=September 2004|publisher=Karthala Editions|isbn=2-84586-556-2|location=Paris|language=fr}}</ref>

==== Election campaigns ====
Ritambhara's skills at oratory made her a star-campaigner for [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] in both the 1989 and 1991 Lok Sabha elections and several state-legislature elections.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Dyke|first=Virginia Van|date=1997|title=General Elections, 1996: Political Sadhus and Limits to Religious Mobilisation in North India|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=32|issue=49|pages=3150, 3151|issn=0012-9976|jstor=4406155}}</ref>

=== Demolition of Babri Masjid ===
On 6 December 1992, a large group of [[Vishva Hindu Parishad]] activists and allied organisations [[Demolition of the Babri Masjid|demolished the Babri Masjid mosque]] in [[Uttar Pradesh]], triggering riots all over the [[Indian subcontinent]], resulting in the death of around 2,000 people.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thewire.in/south-asia/pakistan-babri-majid-ayodhya-hindus|title=How the Babri Masjid Demolition Upended Tenuous Inter-Religious Ties in Pakistan|first=Haroon|last=Khalid|date=14 November 2019|publisher=The Wire|access-date=30 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.themorningchronicle.in/as-a-reaction-to-babri-masjid-demolition-what-had-happened-in-pakistan-and-bangladesh-on-6-december-1992/|title=As a reaction to Babri Masjid demolition, What had happened in Pakistan and Bangladesh on 6 December, 1992|date=6 December 2018|publisher=The Morning Chronicle|access-date=30 May 2020}}</ref>

Ritambhara was present during the demolition, cheering the crowd<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Tharu|first1=Susie|last2=Niranjana|first2=Tejaswini|date=1994|title=Problems for a Contemporary Theory of Gender|journal=Social Scientist|volume=22|issue=3/4|pages=105|doi=10.2307/3517624|issn=0970-0293|jstor=3517624}}</ref> whilst standing atop the terrace of the Masjid.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bhattacharya|first=Malini|date=1994|title=Women in Dark Times: Gender, Culture and Politics|journal=Social Scientist|volume=22|issue=3/4|pages=6|doi=10.2307/3517620|issn=0970-0293|jstor=3517620}}</ref>{{efn|Contemporary news reports noted her exhorting Hindu volunteers through sloganing -- ''Ek dhakka aur do, Babri Masjid tor do'' [Give one more push, bring down Babri Masjid].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.rediff.com/us/2002/jul/27us.htm|title=Protestors confront Sadhvi Ritambhara in New York|website=rediff.com|access-date=2019-11-17}}</ref>}} Three days after the demolition, she was arrested on false grounds of inciting communal tension.<ref name=":1" />

==== Legal Trials ====
The Liberhan Commission that probed the Babri Masjid demolition held Sadhvi Ritambhara along with sixty-eight others of being individually culpable for leading the country "to the brink of communal discord" for their role in the demolition of the [[Babri Masjid]] on 6 December 1992.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2009-11-24/news/27649631_1_bjp-leaders-justice-m-s-liberhan-liberhan-commission|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130628091626/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2009-11-24/news/27649631_1_bjp-leaders-justice-m-s-liberhan-liberhan-commission|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 June 2013|title=Vajpayee, Thackeray, Advani in Liberhan's culpability list|date=24 November 2009|work=The Economic Times|access-date=20 March 2014}}</ref>

A CBI court framed criminal charges against Ritambhara in May 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.livemint.com/Politics/WlOdZyE2ZWbV0sNoPwFybJ/Babri-Masjid-case-Advani-Murli-Manohar-Joshi-Uma-Bharti-a.html|title=Babri Masjid case: Advani, Bharti, Joshi charged with criminal conspiracy|last=Mittal|first=Priyanka|date=2017-05-30|website=Livemint.com|language=en|access-date=2019-11-17}}</ref>

On 30 September 2020, she along with other 32 accused people, were acquitted in the [[Demolition of the Babri Masjid|Babri Masjid Demolition Case]] by CBI special court.

===Later activities===
She retreated from her public role, soon after the demolition and kept a relatively low profile for a few years.<ref name="B&P259" />

In 1993, Sadhvi Ritambhara attempted to establish an [[ashram]] near [[Vrindavan]] and [[Mathura]] on land that the Uttar Pradesh BJP government had granted her for a minimal fee.<ref name=":0" /> However, the proposal fell through as the [[Kalyan Singh]]-led government was dismissed, and she was not allowed to take possession of the land by the subsequent [[Mulayam Singh Yadav]] led state government. In 2002, the state government led by Chief Minister [[Ram Prakash Gupta]] granted 17 [[hectare]]s of land in the area, valued at [[Indian rupee|Rupee]] 200 million, to her ''Paramshaktipith'' trust for 99 years for an annual fee of one rupee for this philanthropic cause.<ref>{{cite news|title=No charges: Sadhvi Ritambhara given prime land|date=15 July 2000|publisher=[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]]|location=India}}</ref><ref name="Statesmen_2000b">{{cite news|title=Opp spanner in Ritambhara's Ashram works|date=19 July 2000|publisher=[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]]|location=India}}</ref> Besides cultivating devotion in women, the Vrindavan Ashram has also imparted training in karate, horse-riding, handling air guns and pistols, with the stated aim of relieving the women from their traditional societal roles and making them confident and self-reliant.<ref>{{cite news|title=Sadhvi Ritambhara Ashram trains women in martial arts!|date=16 July 2007|work=[[Hindustan Times]]}}</ref> She also runs ashrams for unwanted infants, ladies and widows in Indore, [[Delhi]] and [[Himachal Pradesh]].<ref name="Statesmen_2000b" />

In April 1995, Ritambhara was arrested in [[Indore]] for inciting communal passions, after she referred to [[Mother Teresa]] as a "magician", in the course of a speech denouncing Christian missionaries, who she alleged were converting Hindus. Ritambhara's address sparked off a riot and led to several arson, leading to the arrest of 169 people. During the 1995 Gujarat elections, she returned to the campaigning fold for BJP and alleged about a Hindu-phobic attitude of Congress (I); this helped in mobilizing public electoral sentiments, especially since VHP was banned in Gujarat.<ref name=":1" /> She was arrested, soon after.<ref name=":2" />

As of 2024, she continued to run an ashram, ‘’Vatsalya Gram’’, at Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, for orphans, widows, and the elderly.<ref name=exp24/> On 31 December 2023 to mark her 60th birthday, Chief Minister of Haryana, [[Manohar Lal Khattar]] released a book in Vrindavan, based on her role in the Ram Janmabhoomi agitation.<ref>{{cite web|title=Haryana CM releases book on Sadhvi's role in Ayodhya movement
|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/others/haryana-cm-releases-book-on-sadhvi-s-role-in-ayodhya-movement-101704032777625.html|date= 31 December 2023|website= Hindustan Times}}</ref> In January 2024, she along with fellow leader [[Uma Bharti]] was one of the invitees at the consecration ceremony of the [[Ram Mandir]] at Ayodhya.<ref>[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/news/tears-hugs-and-happiness-pran-pratishtha-an-epochal-moment-for-uma-bharti-sadhvi-rithambara/videoshow/107084800.cms Tears, hugs and happiness; ‘Pran Pratishtha’ an epochal moment for Uma Bharti, Sadhvi Ritambhara] The times of India, Jan 23, 2024.</ref><ref name=exp24/>

==Notes==
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==Bibliography==
* ''नर से नारायण: आध्यात्मिक उन्नति का मार्ग '' (Hindi) by Sadhvi Ritambhara. Prabhat Prakashan. 2024. {{ISBN|9355217188}}.
* ''Sadhvi Ritambhara Aur Shriramjanmabhoomi Andolan'' (Hindi) Book. Prabhat Prakashan, 2024. {{ISBN|9355217285}}.

==References==
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{{Padma Bhushan Award Recipients 2020–2029}}
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