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{{Infobox person
| name = Duvvuri Subbamma
| image =Duvvuri subbamma.jpg
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| caption = Memorial to Duvvuri Subbamma in the Freedom Park in [[Rajahmundry]], India
| nationality = Indian
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1881|11|15|df=y}}
| birth_place = Daksharamam, [[East Godavari district]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], India
| death_date ={{death date and age|df=y|1964|5|31|1881|11|15}}
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'''Duvvuri Subbamma''' (15 November 1881 – 31 May 1964) was an [[Indian independence movement|Indian independence activist]] who played an important role in the [[Indian independence movement]]. She was one of the founders of the women's congress committee.<ref name=Basu/>

==Biography==
Subbamma was born in 1880 in Daksharamam, [[East Godavari district]], [[Andhra Pradesh]].<ref name=Basu/> A [[Child marriage|child bride]], she was married at the age of ten.<ref name=Basu>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GeTiQqRzoksC&pg=PA233 |title=Women's Movements in the Global Era |last=Basu |first=Amrita |last2=Editor |first2=Amrita Basu |date=2011 |publisher=Read How You Want |isbn=9781458781826 |language=en}}</ref> She was widowed at a very young age. After her husband's death, she took up activism and joined the [[Quit India Movement]] against the [[British Raj]].<ref name=Basu/><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7qJesClv4z4C&pg=PA116 |title=Women in Gandhi's Mass Movements |last=Thakur |first=Bharti |date=2006 |publisher=Deep & Deep Publications |isbn=9788176298186 |language=en}}</ref> She took part in the civil disobedience movement and strongly advocated total freedom from British rule in India.

In 1922 she organized the women's congress committee.<ref name=SAGE>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=142HAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA570 |title=Women of India: Colonial and Post-colonial Periods |last=Ray |first=Bharati |date=15 September 2005 |publisher=SAGE Publications India |isbn=9788132102649 |language=en}}</ref> In 1923 she organized a meeting in [[Kakinada]], Andhra Pradesh, where hundreds of women volunteers attended the Kakinada Congress Mahasabha.<ref name=SAGE/> Subbamma organized Andhra Mahila Sabhas that trained and educated women in the national freedom movement and was instrumental in galvanizing support of the women in the Indian independence movement. She extensively traveled throughout Andhra Pradesh promoting women's empowerment.<ref name=SAGE/>

Together with other activists like Nadimpalli, Sundaramma helped set up the Goteti Manikyamba, [[Andhra Mahasabha]], and T. Varakshmamma organizations. Subbamma was arrested and incarcerated in the [[Rajahmundry]] prison for one year due to her activities on behalf of the [[civil disobedience movement]]. She also spent a year in the Rayavellore prison for taking part in the [[Salt March]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5dqRvDui1-4C&pg=PA106 |title=Salt Satyagraha in the Coastal Andhra |last=Naidu |first=Ch M. |date=1 January 1986 |publisher=Mittal Publications |language=en}}</ref> She aggressively spoke out and worked for the abolition of [[untouchability]] in India.<ref name=SAGE/>

She is memorialized with a [[Bust (sculpture)|bust]] in the Freedom Park in Rajahmundry.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/News-Analysis/2017-08-15/Unsung-and-unhonoured-/319161|title=Unsung and unhonoured|date=15 August 2017|accessdate=3 December 2017|work=[[The Hans India]]}}</ref>

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[[Category:1881 births]]
[[Category:1964 deaths]]
[[Category:Women Indian independence activists]]
[[Category:People from East Godavari district]]
[[Category:Activists from Andhra Pradesh]]
[[Category:19th-century Indian women]]
[[Category:19th-century Indian people]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian women politicians]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian politicians]]
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Andhra Pradesh]]

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