The objective of this paper is to find out how women can play a pivotal role in bringing about societal changes by setting the example of Indira Miri. Indira Miri was born in 1910 in Shillong, a city in the state of Meghalaya (North-East India) in a Scheduled Caste (SC) family. At that moment, it was quite impossible to get access to education, especially for the women. Additionally, for women from the SC community background, it was hard enough to get educated. However, Miri found this loophole that was hindering social progress and accordingly started putting efforts to modify the existing notions that dominated society at that time. Against this backdrop, the North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) played a vital role since based on her achievement, Miri was selected as the top officer in the NEFA Education Department. At that moment, though the NEFA was deprived of the light of civilization, Indira Miri took the initiative to spread the light of education by cutting the dense forest and setting up schools, where there was no proper provision of transportation to remote places in the concerned hilly areas for the promotion and spread of modern education. She established altogether 140 schools (approx.) in her 10-year service tenure (approx.) as an Education Officer. Hence, despite being born and raised in a patriarchal society, Miri became the most popular Assamese woman figure since she devotedly tried to bring revolutionary changes towards the underdeveloped society, especially in the field of education. This paper will deeply explore the contributions made by this hidden icon of Assam, especially during the mid and late 20th century, which is constantly countable in today’s context.
Prabin Kumar Bora (Fri,) studied this question.
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