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{{short description|Indian freedom fighter, educationist and gandhian}}
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| birth_date = 1901
| birth_place = Lahore, British India
| death_date = 1972
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| spouse = E. R. W. Aranyakam
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| parents = Phani Bhushan Adhikari<br>Sarjubala Devi
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]]
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'''Asha Devi Aryanayakam''' (1901-1972)<ref name="Boston University">{{cite web | url=http://www.bu.edu/dbin/mlkjr/collection/search.php?query=path%3A97729%2F%2Fname%3A43068%2F%2Fname%3A44328 | title=Boston University | publisher=Boston University | date=2015 | accessdate=31 March 2015}}</ref> was an [[Indian freedom fighters|Indian freedom fighter]], educationist and [[Gandhism|gandhian]].<ref name="The City of Hope: The Faridabad Story">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mrLNEnirPfwC&q=Asha+Devi+Aryanayakam&pg=PA228 | title=The City of Hope: The Faridabad Story | publisher=Concept Publishing Company | author=L. C. Jain | year=1998 | pages=330 | isbn=9788170227489}}</ref><ref name="An Atlas of Tribal India">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cBKUAxwTMtkC&q=Asha+Devi+Aryanayakam&pg=RA1-PA156 | title=An Atlas of Tribal India | publisher=oncept Publishing Company | author=Aijazuddin Ahmad, Moonis Raza | year=1990 | pages=472 | isbn=9788170222866}}</ref> She was closely connected with [[Sevagram]] of [[Mahatma Gandhi]]<ref name="Gandhi's Interpreter: A Life of Horace Alexander">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1NEo5i6x4BEC&q=Asha+Devi+Aryanayakam&pg=PA251 | title=Gandhi's Interpreter: A Life of Horace Alexander | publisher=Edinburgh University Press | author=Geoffrey Carnall | year=2010 | pages=314 | isbn=9780748640454}}</ref> and the [[Bhoodan movement]] of [[Vinoba Bhave]].<ref name="Land Reforms in India, Theory and Practice">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4jhNfZ4DtbEC&q=Asha+Devi+Aryanayakam&pg=PA98 | title=Land Reforms in India, Theory and Practice | publisher=APH Publishing | author=Bikram Sarkar | year=1989 | pages=275 | isbn=9788170242604}}</ref>

==Biography==
She was born in 1901, in [[Lahore]] of the erstwhile [[British India]] and the present day Pakistan to Phani Bhushan Adhikari, a professor, and Sarjubala Devi and spent her childhood in Lahore and later in [[Varanasi|Banares]]. She did her schooling and college studies at home and secured MA after which joined the Women's College, Benares as a member of the faculty. Later, she took up the responsibility of looking after the girls at [[Shantiniketan]] and moved to the campus where she met E. R. W. Aranyakam, a Sri Lankan who worked as the private secretary to [[Rabindranath Tagore]] and married him.<ref name="The City of Hope: The Faridabad Story" /><ref name="An Atlas of Tribal India" /> The couple had two children. It was during this time, she was influenced by [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]] and she, along with her husband, joined him in [[Sevagram]] in Wardha. Initially she worked at the Marwadi Vidyalaya but later took up the ideals of [[Nai Talim]] and worked at Hindustani Talimi Sangh.<ref name="The City of Hope: The Faridabad Story" /><ref name="An Atlas of Tribal India" /> The [[Government of India]] honoured her in 1954, with the award of [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest Indian civilian award for her contributions to the society,<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Shri |publisher=Padma Shri |date=2015 |accessdate=11 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archivedate=15 November 2014 }}</ref> placing her among the first recipients of the award.

Asha Devi Aranyakam published two works, ''The Teacher: Gandhi''<ref name="The Teacher: Gandhi">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hXpDAAAAYAAJ | title=The Teacher: Gandhi | publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan | author=Asha Devi Aryanayakam | year=1966 | pages=37}}</ref> and ''Shanti-Sena: die indische Friedenswehr'',<ref name="Shanti-Sena: die indische Friedenswehr">{{cite book | title=Shanti-Sena: die indische Friedenswehr | publisher=Freundschaftsheim | author=Asha Devi Aryanayakam | year=1958}}</ref> both related [[Mahatma Gandhi]]. She died in 1972.<ref name="Boston University" />

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==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book | title=The Teacher: Gandhi | publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan | author=Asha Devi Aryanayakam | year=1966 | pages=37}}
* {{cite book | title=Shanti-Sena: die indische Friedenswehr | publisher=Freundschaftsheim | author=Asha Devi Aryanayakam | year=1958}}

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