Prabhavati devi and gandhi biography

Indian independence activist

Prabhavati Devi Narayan (néePrasad; 1904 – 15 April 1973) was an Indian independence activist from the present-day state of Bihar, and wife of compatriot independence and social activist, Jayprakash Narayan.

Early life and family

She was born to prominent lawyer, Brajkishore Prasad and Phool Devi in Srinagar in the present-day district of Siwan in Bihar. Brajkishore Prasad was himself an ardent Gandhian 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 Jayprakash Narayan when she was 16 in October 1920.^[1]

After their marriage, Jayaprakash Narayan went to the USA to initially study science in California but instead enrolled at University of Wisconsin to study Marxism.

She moved to Gandhi's ashram where she devoted herself completely to Gandhi's wife, Kasturba Gandhi who started regarding Prabhavati as he