# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lakshmi-sahgal
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:11:00.860Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lakshmi-sahgal"
name: "Lakshmi Sahgal"
slug: "lakshmi-sahgal"
description: "Lakshmi Sahgal was an Indian politician and activist. She was a revolutionary of the Indian independence movement, an officer of the Indian National Army (INA), and the Minister of Women's Affairs in the Azad Hind Government. She is commonly referred to in India as Captain Lakshmi, a reference to her participation in the INA's Rani Jhansi Regiment during the Second World War. A prominent member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), she was a founding member of the All India Democratic Women's Association. In 1998, Sahgal was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian award. Following this, in the 2002 Indian presidential election, she was nominated as the presidential candidate opposite A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. A medical doctor by profession, she practiced till her death in Kanpur in 2012."
tagline: "Officer in the Indian National Army (INA) and former presidential candidate of India"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lakshmi_Sahgal.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1914-10-24"
deathDate: "2012-07-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0.7887323943661971
  historical:           19.90386533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump