Bhikhaiji Rustom Cama, known as
Madam Cama, born on 24 September 1861, in Navsari, Bombay Presidency, British
India (present day Gujarat, India), was one of the prominent figures in the
Independence movement. She unfurled one of the earliest versions of the flag
of independent India on August 22, 1907 and she was the first person to hoist
an Indian flag in a foreign nation, at the International Socialist Conference
at Stuttgart, in Germany.
