ABSTRACT
Anasuya Sarabhai was also a woman who showed her determination to live her life as an individual outside the bonds of marriage. In an age when marriage was regarded as the sole goal of a woman's life, young Anasuya walked out of her marriage and carved an independent life of her own. By 1876, mechanised spinning and weaving machines imported from England had already been successfully introduced in Ahmedabad. Ambalal was shown much greater affection and pampered but Anasuya does not seem to have resented this or borne a grudge against her brother, parents or uncle for this, at least when she recollected her childhood in later years. Anasuya's mother was deeply religious and Anasuya recalls that in her childhood, she prayed every day for an hour or so, though for what and to whom was not to clear to her. In December 1917, the Ahmedabad textile mill-hands decided to go on strike on the issue of ‘plague bonus’.
