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{{short description|Participant in Indian independence movement}}
{{Use Indian English|date=September 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Satyavati Devi
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| birth_date = 1904
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| death_date = 1945
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| known_for = Participation in Indian Freedom Movement
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'''Satyavati Devi''' (1904–1945) was a participant in [[Indian independence movement]]. She was considered to be the Joan of Arc of India.{{efn|Writeup by [[Jayaprakash Narayan|Jaiprakash Narain]], in "Dilli Ki Joan of Arc, Behan Satyavati" souvenir published in 1977 commemorating Satyavati's 70th birth anniversary.}}

==Family==
She was the granddaughter of [[Swami Shraddhanand]], and the daughter of advocate Dhani Ram and Ved Kumari.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Taneja|first1=Anup|title=Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920–47|publisher=Har-anand Publications Pvt Ltd|isbn=9788124110768|page=153|year=2005}}</ref> She married an officer of the Delhi Cloth Mills.

==Activism==
Among nationalist women in [[Delhi]], Satyavati took a leadership role. [[Aruna Asaf Ali]] credits Satyavati with motivating her to join the nationalist movement.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Taneja|first1=Anup|title=Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920–47|publisher=Har-anand Publications Pvt Ltd|isbn=9788124110768|page=154|year=2005}}</ref> Satyavati undertook social work among mill workers at textile mills in [[Gwalior]] and [[Delhi]]. She founded the Congress Mahila Samaj<ref>{{cite web|title=CONGRESS SOCIALIST PARTY (CSP) AT A GLANCE AND SHORT PROFILES WORKS OF ITS LEADERS|url=http://lohiatoday.com/SocialistMovement/CSPAtAGlance.pdf|website=lohiatoday.com|access-date=3 November 2015|page=91}}</ref> and Congress Desh Sevika Dal and she also co-founded the Congress Socialist Party. She took an active part in [[Civil disobedience movement]]. During civil disobedience movement she became the leader of the women wing of the congress in Delhi and led the movement. She organised the breaking of the [[History of the British salt tax in India|Salt Law]] in Delhi where she and a group of volunteers manufactured and distributed packets of illegal salt to people gathered there. She was arrested by the police and was sentenced to two years imprisonment in 1932. While she was imprisoned in the jail she contracted pleurisy and tuberculosis.<ref>{{cite book|title=Women in Modern India, Volume 4|date=1999|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0521653770|page=148|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hjilIrVt9hUC&pg=PA148|author=Geraldine Forbes}}</ref>
While at jail, despite being very ill, she refused to give a bond of good behaviour and assurance that she would desist from political activity, that could have secured her release and hope for treatment.<ref>{{cite web|title=Toofani Satyawati An Unsung Heor of Freedom Struggle|url=http://www.manushi.in/docs/306.%20Toofani%20Satyawati.pdf|website=www.manushi.in|publisher=[[Manushi]] – Forum for Women's Rights & Democratic Reforms|access-date=1 October 2015}}</ref> She died in 1945 at the age of 41 of tuberculosis.

==Writings==
Jailed women political freedom fighters composed poems and nationalist tracts, which were smuggled out and published. One of the pieces written by Satyavati Devi, titled ‘Bahin Satyavati Ka Jail Sandesh’ (Sister Satyavati's prison message) goes as follows:<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Thapar-Björkert|first1=Suruchi|title=Gender, nationalism and the colonial jail: a study of women activists in Uttar Pradesh|journal=[[Women's History Review]]|date=20 December 2006|volume=7|issue=4|pages=583–615|doi=10.1080/09612029800200182|doi-access=free}}</ref><br>
<poem>
This is a message from your jailed sister
Sister Satyavati appeals to you
Do not slacken from your work
Jump, if required, into the burning flames
The sacred battle should be full of strength
Once you have stepped forward, never retreat
Die before the men in the battlefield
Do not fear bullets or sticks
Put your head forward before the men
Once lit, the fire should never go out
I have full faith now
Because the women have prepared themselves{{efn|Copied verbatim from the referred article.}} </poem>

This and other writings and prison songs seemed to be aimed at motivating and mobilising women to enter [[India's Independence Movement|India's Independence movement.]]

==Recognition==
Although she is believed to be an unsung hero of India's freedom struggle, [[Satyawati College]] ([[Delhi University]]) established by the government of Delhi in 1972 is named after her.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Us|url=http://satyawati.du.ac.in/|website=satyawati.du.ac.in/}}</ref><br />
A fiery freedom fighter, [[Mahatma Gandhi]] affectionately labeled her ''Toofani'' (like a whirlwind/ tempestuous)''Behan''(sister).<ref>{{cite news|title=Satyawati College|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/oasis-of-relief/article639091.ece|access-date=1 October 2015|work=The Hindu|date=25 July 2009}}</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
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