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| name = Vimla Dang
|honorific prefix = [[Padma Shri]]
| birthname = Vimla Bakaya
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1926|12|26|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Lahore]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2009|05|10|1926|12|26|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Amritsar]], India
| restingplace = Amritsar
| restingplacecoordinates = {{Coord|30.75|N|76.78|W}}
| office = Member of [[Punjab Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start = 1992
| term_end = 1997
| constituency = Amritsar West
| predecessor = Sewa Ram
| successor = [[Om Parkash Soni]]
| occupation = Social worker<br>Politician<br>Leftist ideals<br>Dang school of Politics<br>Punjab Istri Sabha
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| spouse = [[Satyapal Dang]]
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'''Vimla Dang''' (1926–2009) was an Indian social worker and politician, known for propounding the ''Dang school of Politics'', reportedly a stream of politics adhering to the values of integrity and honesty.<ref name="Communist legend">{{cite web | url=http://www.frontline.in/other/obituary/communist-legend/article4840752.ece | title=Communist legend | publisher=Frontline | date=12 July 2013 | access-date=14 October 2015}}</ref> She was a leader of the [[Communist Party of India]] and a [[Member of Legislative Assembly (India)|Member]] of the [[Punjab Legislative Assembly]] representing [[Amritsar]] West constituency.<ref name="Tribute: Vimla Dang">{{cite journal | url=http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article1358.html | title=Tribute: Vimla Dang | journal=Mainstream | date=May 2009 | volume=XLVII | issue=22}}</ref> Two of the organizations she co-founded, ''Punjab Istri Sabha'' and the ''Punjab Istri Sabha Relief Trust'' are engaged in providing education to the children of those who lost their lives during the [[Punjab insurgency]] of the 1970s and 80s.<ref name="Tribute: Vimla Dang" /> The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]] in 1991.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=21 July 2015}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Vimla Dang, née ''Vimla Bakaya'', was born on 26 December 1926 in a [[Kashmiris|Kashmiri]] family<ref name="Vimla Dang passes away">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/vimla-dang-passes-away/article280207.ece | title=Vimla Dang passes away | work=The Hindu | date=11 May 2009 | access-date=14 October 2015}}</ref> at [[Lahore]] in the [[British India]] and did her early education in the local schools.<ref name="Tribute: Vimla Dang" /> She was involved with student politics early on when she became a member of the Lahore Students’ Union.<ref name="Vimla Dang passes away" /> Her graduation was at Wilson College, Mumbai during which time she continued her involvement in student politics. She was a part of the [[All India Students Federation]] (AISF) delegation which visited the state and engaged in the relief activities of the [[Bengal famine of 1943]].<ref name="Satpal Dang: My Friend & Colleague, My Ideal">{{cite journal | url=http://www.tehelka.com/2013/06/satpal-dang-my-friend-colleague-my-ideal/ | title=Satpal Dang: My Friend & Colleague, My Ideal | author=A. B. Bardhan | author-link=A. B. Bardhan | journal=Tehelka | date=June 2013}}</ref> She also attended the first Party Congress of the [[Communist Party of India]] held in Bombay in 1943.<ref name="Communism and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1939-45">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UrSGAwAAQBAJ&q=first+party+congress+of+Communist+Party+of+India&pg=PA230 | title=Communism and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1939-45 | publisher=Sage Publications | author=D N Gupta | year=2008 | pages=296 | isbn=9788132100089}}</ref> Later, she moved to [[Prague]], the capital of the erstwhile [[Czechoslovakia]], joining the International Students Union (ISU), and spent a few years there involved with the organization's activities.<ref name="Tribute: Vimla Dang" />

Before she returned to India, she lost her elder brother, Sashi Bakaya, a poet, who died in Bombay at the age of 25 in 1946.<ref name="Tribute: Vimla Dang" /> Once in India, she worked for several publications as a correspondent. In April 1952, she married [[Satpal Dang]], a Communist thinker and her acquaintance from Lahore.<ref name="Tribute: Vimla Dang" /> The couple settled in [[Chheharta Sahib]], a satellite town of [[Amritsar]], where they continued their social and political work for the development of the area. The couple headed the Municipal Council of the town several times, Vimla Dang holding the post of the president of the Chhehrata Municipal Committee from 1968 till 1978<ref name="Tribute: Baba Bhagat Singh Bilga and Vimla Dang - Pride of Punjab">{{cite journal | url=http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article1578.html | title=Tribute: Baba Bhagat Singh Bilga and Vimla Dang - Pride of Punjab | author=Chaman Lal | journal=Mainstream | date=August 2009 | volume=XLVII | issue=35}}</ref><ref name="Tribute">{{cite web | url=https://www.academia.edu/14428947 | title=Tribute | publisher=Academia | date=2015 | access-date=14 October 2015}}</ref> and is credited with transforming the town into a model town in Punjab. It was during Vimla Dang's tenure as the head of the Municipal Committee, the first creche in the state of Punjab was established in Chhehrata.<ref name="Tribute: Vimla Dang" /> In 1954, she co-founded ''Punjab Istri Sabha'' and a relief trust, ''Punjab Istri Sabha Relief Trust'', under the aegis of the Sabha, for assisting in the education of the children of the war victims. The Sabha and the Trust were active during and after the Punjab insurgency of the 1970s which lasted till the 1990s, helping with children's education.<ref name="Tribute: Vimla Dang" />

The Government of India included her in the 1991 [[Indian honours system|Republic Day honours]] list for the civilian award of the [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Padma Awards" /> The next year, she contested the 1992 [[Punjab Legislative Assembly]] elections, and won from the [[Amritsar]] West constituency.<ref name="Tribute: Vimla Dang" /> She was an office bearer of [[National Federation of Indian Women]]<ref name="Tribute" /> and served as a member of the National Council of the Communist Party of India till her voluntary retirement from the Council due to old age.<ref name="Tribute: Vimla Dang" /> However, she continued her social activities, associating with Punjab Istri Sabha<ref name="Pratiyogita Darpan">{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UikfR0vpMAsC&q=Vimla+Dang&pg=PT21 | title=Pratiyogita Darpan | publisher=Pratiyogita Darpan | date=July 2009 | access-date=14 October 2015}}</ref> and [[Aruna Asaf Ali]] Memorial Trust, an [[Non-government organization|NGO]] founded in 1997, in the name of the [[Bharat Ratna]] awardee.<ref name="Aruna Asaf Ali Memorial Trust">{{cite web | url=http://arunaasafalitrust.org/about-trust/ | title=Aruna Asaf Ali Memorial Trust | publisher=Aruna Asaf Ali Memorial Trust | date=2015 | access-date=14 October 2015}}</ref>

Vimla and Satpal Dang lived in the Party office and had no children, by their own choice.<ref name="Satpal Dang: The last of the true communists">{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Satpal-Dang-The-last-of-the-true-communists/articleshow/20624769.cms | title=Satpal Dang: The last of the true communists | publisher=Times of India | date=17 June 2013 | access-date=14 October 2015}}</ref> Vimla Dang fell ill on the [[International Workers' Day]] of 2009, after participating in the flag hoisting ceremony at the Party's Chheharta office and died ten days later, on 10 May 2009, at the age of 83,<ref name="Tribute: Vimla Dang" /> her husband surviving her for another four years.<ref name="Satpal Dang: My Friend & Colleague, My Ideal" /> Her autobiography, ''Fragments of an Autobiography'',<ref name="Fragments of an Autobiography">{{cite book | url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/fragments-of-an-autobiography/oclc/650397688?referer=di&ht=edition | title=Fragments of an Autobiography | publisher=Kuknas | author=Vimla Dang | editor=Ravi M Bakaya Pritam | editor2=Singh Parwana | year=2007 | pages=104 | oclc=650397688}}</ref> was published two years prior to her death, edited by her elder brother, Ravi M. Bakaya, a former professor of [[Russian language|Russian]] at [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]].<ref name="Tribute: Baba Bhagat Singh Bilga and Vimla Dang - Pride of Punjab" />

== See also ==
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* [[Satyapal Dang]]
* [[Communist Party of India]]
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{{portal|India|Politics}}

== References ==
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{{Padma Shri Award Recipients in Social Work}}
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