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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.
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]
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).
Under the Bengal Criminal Law Amendment (BCLA) Act, Ganguly was held captive in Hijli Detention Camp from 1932 to 1938. [4] [7] and after her release, she participated in India's Communist movement. [1] She was attached to the women's front of the Communist Part of India. [10]
Das was a member of Chhatri Sangha, a semi-revolutionary organisation for women in Kolkata. In 1930, she led a protest of female students against Governor of Bengal. She was arrested for her anti-governor activity on 1932. Her classmate Kamala Das Gupta was arrested at the same time. [2]
Labanya Prabha Ghosh (1897–2003), also called Labanya Devi, [4] a Gandhian, [5] was a prominent personality of the Indian freedom movement, from Purulia District of West Bengal. [1] She lived for almost 106 years and during later part of her life, was forced to live in a poverty-stricken ashram , her only source of income being a pension paid ...
This was the experience of joint political work in an organized women's movement coordinated by MARS since 1942, and the sustained interaction of urban MARS and Communist Party (CP) activists with a devastated rural populace in the relief work and political marches during and after the Bengal famine of 1943.