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state, into a landowning family of central India, which also produced freedom fighters and social reformers. Urmila's great-grandfather, Raja Natwar Singh (alias Lalla Shah) of
Haridaypur, was a freedom fighter, who was executed by the British rulers. Some other family members were deported to serve
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Pradesh assembly and remained a member from 1985 to 2003.
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