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Das was a member of Chhatri Sangha, a semi-revolutionary organisation for women in Kolkata. On 6 February 1932, she attempted to assassinate the Bengal Governor Stanley Jackson, in the Convocation Hall of the University of Calcutta. The revolver was supplied by another freedom fighter Kamala Das Gupta. [2] She fired five shots but failed. [3]
Revolutionaries of Bengal during British Rule (1 C, 26 P) Pages in category "Indian independence activists from Bengal" The following 154 pages are in this category, out of 154 total.
Sucheta Kripalani (25 June 1908 – 1 December 1974) was a freedom fighter and politician, who was India's first female Chief Minister, serving as the head of the Government of Uttar Pradesh from 1963 to 1967. [34] She came to the forefront during the Quit India Movement and was arrested by British.
She worked for women's vocational training at the Congress Mahila Shilpa Kendra and the Dakshineshwar Nari Swabalambi Sadan. She edited the women's journal Mandira for many years. She authored two memoirs in Bengali, Rakter Akshare (In Letters of Blood, 1954) and Swadhinata Sangrame Nari (Women in the Freedom Struggle, 1963).
Ganguly was born on 3 February 1909 in Khulna, Bengal, British India to Abinashchandra Ganguly and Sarala Sundara Devi. Their family was from Bikrampur, Dhaka, Bengal. She passed matriculation in 1924 from Dhaka Eden School. While studying Intermediate of Arts, she got a teacher's job at a deaf and dumb school and went to Kolkata. [7] [1] [8]
A biography for children, Sarojini Naidu: The Nightingale and The Freedom Fighter, was published by Hachette in 2014. [ 53 ] In 1975, the Government of India Films Division produced a twenty-minute documentary about Naidu's life, "Sarojini Naidu – The Nightingale of India", directed by Bhagwan Das Garga .
Suniti Chowdhury was born on 22 May 1917 in Comilla of Comilla District of Bengal (present Bangladesh) to Umacharan Choudhury and Surasundari Choudhury in Bengali Kayastha family. [6] She was a student of Nawab Faizunnessa Government Girls High School of Comilla .
Kalpana Datta (also commonly spelled Dutta) was born at Sripur, [3] a village of Chittagong District in the Bengal Province of British India (Sripur is now located in Boalkhali Upazila in Bangladesh). Her father Binod Behari Dattagupta was a government employee.