Biography
Dr Lakshmi Sahgal, born Lakshmi Swaminathan in 1914, was a physician and INA officer. In 1943 she helped organize and command the Rani of Jhansi Regiment, named after Rani Lakshmibai. After the Imphal–Kohima campaign failed she was captured. She later practised medicine and remained a public figure in independent India until her death in 2012. The pin is Chennai, her birthplace. Recruitment and organization were centred in Singapore and the Burma theatre.