Dariki Dasi Barua was a freedom fighter belonging to the Golaghat district of Assam.
The picketing of opium and liquor shops was an important feature of the civil disobedience movement started by Gandhi. The women in Assam actively participated in it. Those who refused to give up their addiction were boycotted socially. Dariki Dasi Baruah was one of the active workers in picketing opium shops. On account of her participation in the anti-opium program, she was arrested on 1st February 1932. Dariki was pregnant at the time of her arrest and she was sentenced to be in prison for six months. Acknowledging her advanced stage of pregnancy, the Sibsagar jail authorities counselled her to request a conditional release. Dariki refused to give in to the counsel till the end. While in prison she suffered dysentery and eventually she miscarried due to which she passed away.
Her grit and determination till her last breath to not compromise but offer up her very life for the freedom struggle and its principles make her a martyr of the highest order.
Source: Indian Culture Portal