Background
Neupane was born in 1860 in Dingla, Bhojpur District, Nepal.
Neupane was born in 1860 in Dingla, Bhojpur District, Nepal.
She entered into an arranged marriage at an early age, and was widowed within three years. Upon returning to her maternal home she was accused by her in laws of mariticide. After a few years, she remarried and left for Assam in India.
She also protested against injustice, corruption and blasphemes through the medium of hymns, religious songs and poems.
The committee constituted under the leadership of Neupane concentrated its activities against the exploitation of women in the name of religion and tradition, including widow marriage, child marriage and polygamy. Within a few years of its activity, the committee submitted a 24-point petition of demands stating the problems facing women to Rana Prime Minister, Chandra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, who, in 1920, abolished the Nepalese practice of Sati.
Neupane was offered a plate full of gold coins, but refused the offer, stating that she would be more satisfied if a religious and humane state could be established. After receiving assurance of reform in religion they returned to Dingla.
Instead of working on the promised reforms, the government labeled four activists to be revolutionaries, and executed them in 1940.
