Sushila Samad or Sushila Samanta (Hindi: सुशीला सामद) (7 June 1906 – 10 December 1960) was an

Adivasi The Adivasi (also transliterated as Adibasi) are heterogeneous tribal groups across the Indian subcontinent. The term is a recent invention from the 20th century and is now widely used as a self-designation by groups classified as Scheduled Tr ...

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poet, journalist, editor, and publisher. She was an active organiser of the

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. She belongs to the Munda tribal family of the village of Laujoda in the Indian state of

Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ) is a States and union territories of India, state in East India, eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north ...

Biography

She was born at the house of mother Lalmani Sandil and father Mohan Ram Sandil. In 1931, Sushila Samad passed the first class examination from Prayag-Mahila Vidyapeeth. In 1932 she completed the education of Vinodini and Vidushee ( BA Honors) in 1934. She was the first Adivasi woman in India to become a 'Hindi Vidushee'. From 1925 to 1930, she edited and published literary-social magazine ''Chandni.'' She was

Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2October 186930January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British ...

's only tribal woman 'Surajee' (freedom fighter). She served as MLC and carried out social-cultural, literary responsibilities. Her two poetry collections were ''Prallap'' (1935) and ''Sapne Ka Sansar'' (1948).

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