Indumati Patankar (Indutai) (1925 – 2017) was a freedom fighter and long-time veteran activist living in rural India in Kasegaon, Maharashtra.

Indutai started reading books such as Volga te Ganga when she was 10–12 years old, took part in morning processions of Congress in the village, supported the families of freedom movement leaders staying at her home in Indoli, tal.

In 1942, Indutai left her parental home at the age of 16 and joined the 1942 Independence movement against the British rule, organizing women and spreading the message of the Rashtra Seva Dal.

She gradually started taking part in the underground movement of the prati sarkar by 1943, carrying arms (pistols and revolvers) to the fighters.

Indutai as a young widow single-handedly continued to raise her family, particularly their baby boy Bharat who had been born on 5 September 1949.

[3] After her son Bharat Patankar became a full-time activist in the movement, she supported him morally and economically, along with his wife Gail Omvedt, and continued taking a leading role in every activity of Shramik Mutki Dal.