Kashinath Trivedi was born on 16 February 1906 in village Digthan of district Dhar and
Smt Kalavati Trivedi was born on 19 February 1916 in Dhar in the house of late Anand Rao Vyas, who was a magistrate in the princely state of Dhar. Kalavati Trivedi was a female freedom fighter of Nimar.
She along with her husband Kashinath Trivedi reached Sabarmati Ashram near Mahatma Gandhi to join the freedom movement. She became active as a worker in the women's group in the freedom movement. Under the leadership of Gangabahan Ved she joined the Bardoli and Borsad farmer's movement along with Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel in Satyagraha and suffered the lathi of the British government. As a female Satyagrahi, she did satyagraha with other women for liquor ban and was lathi charged. Mahatma Gandhi wrote a letter in 1931
"Ch. Kalavati, you showed good bravery, send the full statement in writing. Blessings of Bapu"-on 2 February, 1931.
In the year 1933, at the age of about eighteen years, Kalavati left for Ajmer from Indore with Tulsi Behan, Baijnath and Lilavati Krishnakant Vyas and wife of Kanhaiyalal Khadi Wala to participate in the Satyagraha movement in Ajmer. And on 22 August 1933, a group of eleven women and five men took out a procession in Ajmer and distributed pamphlets against the British government. At this time Kalavati was pregnant.
Tulsi Ben had a one-year-old son in her arms. For taking out this procession, all the satyagrahis including Kalavati were sentenced to three months imprisonment. After being released from prison, she gave birth to her first son, Kumud Ranjan Trivedi.
Mahatma Gandhi made women activists fearless in the freedom movement and set a goal of not deviating from duty due to personal life. In 1933, Mahatma Gandhi wrote to Kalavati Trivedi saying-
"Ch. Kalavati,I received your letter after many days. We should have such a habit that we don't feel good or bad. Because of our duty, we have to live anywhere, we believe it is good. The one who has to serve, what is good or bad for him? Do not break your determination even on the gallows. Write to me.”
- Bapu's blessings 19.10.30
The Trivedi couple stayed in Mahatma Gandhi's Sabarmati and Sevagram ashrams for a long time. They were present in the session of Lahore Congress in1929, held on the banks of river Ravi, in which the resolution of complete Swaraj was taken. In the Karachi Congress session of 1931, they went with Badshah Abdul Ghaffar Khan by ship from Bombay and joined the Karachi Congress. They worked with many leaders of the freedom movement including Kasturba Gandhi, Sardar Patel, Vinoba Bhave, Jayaprakash Narayan. Gandhiji taught our mother to cycle and taught Sanskrit in the ashram. Mahatma Gandhi taught common women to walk firmly on the path of serving fearlessly in the freedom movement. In the Quit India Movement of 1942, Kashinath Trivedi was arrested
Kept with Vinoba Bhave and other leaders in Nagpur Central Jail for twenty-five months, Kalavati Trivedi stayed in Barwani (Nimar) during this period and was engaged in the freedom movement. At the time of partition of the country, she continued to work for communal harmony. Due to the freedom movement and ashram life, she wore Khadi thoughtfully throughout her life while studying literature and living a self-supporting life, the whole family also wore Khadi and lived a simple life
Kashinath died on 26 June 1966 and Kalavati on 11 November 1999 at Piplya Rao, Indore.