Known to pioneer women’s labor movement in India, Anasuya Sarabhai is the lady who founded the Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association. Today Google has dedicated a special doodle to mark and honor her 132nd birthday. She founded Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association (Majadoor Mahajan Sangh), India’s oldest union for textile workers in 1920. Anasuya was born in Ahmedabad on 11 November 1885 into industrialist Sarabhai family. She was an orphan at the age of nine when both her parents died and she was taken care of by her brother Ambalal Sarabhai. Anusaya was forced into marriage at the age of 13, before escaping to England in 1912 to get a degree in medical science. However, she then switched to London School of Economics. In England, Anasuya was deeply influenced
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