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had wished to start a school for girls and name it for Kamala Nehru. She had written to Jawaharlal asking whether he would inaugurate it. Nehru, in reply, said that he was delighted that this school was being planned, for he had long been an advocate of education for girls. But, he added, he had taken a vow that in the case of any school, project, or programme started in memory of his father (Motilal Nehru) or his wife, he would not participate in its inauguration. He asked Prabhavati to go ahead and start the school, with another chief guest if required. He added by way of consolation that when the place was up and running, he would come visit it anyway".
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by Jayaprakash following Prabha's death. One hangs on the wall of the home in the Kadam Kuan locality of Patna where Narayan and his wife both spent their last years. This was a handwritten letter by Nehru to Prabhavati during 1958 in Hindustani. The content of the letter summarizes as "Prabhavati
231:, Prabhavati was one of the women to take part in his controversial celibacy tests. Nevertheless, the couple respected each other and jointly decided not to have any children until the country was free from foreign yoke. She was jailed by the British colonial authorities on several occasions. 357: 189:
perhaps the first Congress party member in Bihar who had given up a lucrative legal practice to devote himself to the freedom struggle. She was married to
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movement and actively participated in peace overtures in the Northeast India and the Middle East. She established Mahila Charkha Samiti in
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and became her confidante. Kamala wrote several personal letters to her. Most of the letters were returned to Kamala's daughter,
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When her husband returned, he was regarded a revolutionary and this led to several differences with her because of her
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The last few years were especially painful for Prabha after she was discovered to be suffering from advanced
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and Phool Devi in Srinagar in the present-day district of
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It was under her influence that Jayaprakash joined the
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or the spinning wheel movement on the Gandhian model.
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Prabhavati developed a very close relationship with
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Index

Saran district
Bengal Presidency
British India
Siwan district
Bihar
India
Patna
Indian
Jayprakash Narayan
Brajkishore Prasad
née
Indian independence activist
Bihar
Jayprakash Narayan
Brajkishore Prasad
Siwan
Bihar
Gandhian
Jayprakash Narayan
Jayaprakash Narayan
California
University of Wisconsin
Marxism
Kasturba Gandhi
Gandhian
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru
Kamala Nehru
Indira Gandhi

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