Narmada Akka

Narmada, commonly known as Narmada Akka, was an Indian Maoist leader who died on 4 December 2012. She was one of the most senior women in the Communist Party of India (Maoist), a banned insurgent party, and sat on its Central Committee, where she is reported to have framed the policies for the party's female cadre. She joined the movement at the age of 18, was inspired by her communist father, and spent more than thirty years in the forests of the Dandakaranya region. She served as Divisional Secretary of the South Gadchiroli division and headed the Dandakaranya unit of the Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangathan, a large women's organisation. Police reported she was killed in an exchange of fire near Hiker village in south Gadchiroli, and the sources disagree on her exact age at death.