Background
She was born in a reputed family in Shrinagar now in Siwan district in Bihar to Brajkishore Prasad and Phool Devi.
She was born in a reputed family in Shrinagar now in Siwan district in Bihar to Brajkishore Prasad and Phool Devi.
Brajkishore Prasad was himself an ardent Gandhian perhaps the first Congressman in Bihar who had given up a lucrative legal practise to devote himself to freedom struggle.She was married to Jayprakash Narayan in October 1920. She also built up a very close relationship with Kamala Nehru and became her confidante. She also spent time in gaol on several occasions.
Nevertheless they respected each other and jointly decided not to have any children until the country was free from foreign yoke.
She established Mahila Charkha Samiti in Patna to involve deserted and abandoned women in the charkha or the spinning wheel movement on the Gandhian model. The last few years were specially painful for her as she was found to be suffering from advanced cancer.
On April 15, 1973, Prabhavati died of cancer.
She was married to Jayaprakash Narayan who went off to the United States to initially study science in California but studied Marxism in Wisconsin.
