Madam Bhikaiji Cama

She was a prominent leader of the indian independence movement. Active in social service from an early in life she took part in the relief efforts during the 1896 famine and boubonic plague. She contracted the plague herself and due to bad health had to be sent off to britain.
While in Britain she came in contact with influential independence leaders like Shyamji Krishna Varma and Dadabhai Naroji ( to whom she served as a personal secretary). She supported the foundation of Home rule society in london in 1905. The same year she relocated to paris where she founded the Paris India Society and wrote and published revolutionary literature like Bande Mataram and MAdan's Talwar.
In 1907 she attended the internation socialist conference in Stuttsburg Germany, where explained the devastating effect of famine in India and unfurled the 'First flag of indian independence'.
She was a vehement supporter of Women's equality.Cama remained in exile in Europe until 1935.
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Cama's stance with respect to the vote for women was however secondary to her position on Indian independence; in 1920, upon meeting Herabai and Mithan Tata, two Parsi women outspoken on the issue of the right to vote, Cama is said to have sadly shaken her head and observed: "'Work for Indian's freedom and independence. When India is independent women will not only have the vote, but all other rights.

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For those of you stupid like me, living in delhi and not knowing the legacy behind the Bhikaiji Cama place, this should be mind blowing. Like her statement to fellow women, that freedom was the highest priority and rest would come with it, an IAS aspirant should know why IAS and why everything else should wait.