Rama
Devi Choudhury,
adoringly called Maa (Mother) by the people
of Orissa, was a celebrated freedom fighter
and a social reformer. Born on the 3rd December,
1889 at Cuttack, she inherited a great legacy
as the daughter of Gopal Ballav Das and the
niece of Utkal Gaurab Madhusudan Das. At the
tender age of 15, she married Gopabandhu Choudhury,
then a Deputy Collector and later a freedom
fighter.
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