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On 8th August 1942, the All-India National Congress took the resolution for demanding the colonial authority to quit India. But the colonial government arrested all the top-level leaders of Congress. Assam, an integral part of North East India, witnessed the same situation. Here also all the responsibilities were fell in the hands of the volunteers. The Quit India movement was one of the popular and powerful mass movements in the series of agitations led by Mahatma Gandhi in the course of the freedom struggle. The inhabitants of Assam specially the women jumped into the vortex of struggle with the determination to 'do or die 'in a way that would make every freedom-loving people proud. In Assam the quit India movement took place at Kamrup, Nowgong, Shivsagar, Golaghat, Goalpara, Dhekiajuli, and in various other areas. Assam witnessed an unmatched game of tears and blood during the 1942 quit India movement. The freedom movement of India was not confined to a particular region or to a particular gender, instead, it had spread throughout the country equally. The contribution of freedom fighters of Dhekiajuli in the district of Sonitpur in Assam in the freedom struggle of 1942 was worth mentioning. The women freedom fighters fought bravely with the Britishers for the independence of the country and sacrificed their lives for the motherland. Dhekiajuli, in fact, was the worst scene of police brutality during the quit India phase of the freedom movement in 1942. Several Assamese women, who were members of the Mrityubahini or Santi Sena were the backbone of the movement. This paper aims to pay tribute to those unsung women freedom fighters who deserve recognition but missed the light.