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Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject History - Asia, grade: A, Presidency College, Kolkata, course: PG-2, language: English, comment: This is the text of the second presentation of PG, Semester-2, delivered at the Presidency University, Calcutta in the month of June, 2013. I am grateful to all my faculty members for their appropriate comments on the lecture. I am indebted to the members of National Library, Calcutta to figure out proper resources required to substantiate my work. I acknowledge the support of Dr. Swarupa Gupta, Assistant Professor of History, Presidency University, Calcutta and also the productive work environment of Calcutta State Archive., abstract: The paper operates at the interstices of two main lines of inquiries: How far women were glorified in the context of Indian Nationalism? Why their heroism was blatantly camouflaged by male chauvinism? Multiple shades of heroism, heterogeneity of diverse cultures and religions were encapsulated in the early 20th cent. freedom movement of India. The paper unravels how the super-imposed patriarchy held women's actions at bay; and how in the last, they were drawn into the whirlpool of the movement. Nonetheless, the subtlety of their heroism created a deep mark in the history of Modern India. The paper explores the integration of disparate ideological and political groupings; and an eclectic blend of women's aestheticism and the chivalrous masculinity of men.