Bina Das

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Bina Das
বীণা দাস
Dasbina.jpg
The photograph shows a photo of Bina Das,(1911-1986), an Indian woman revolutionary and nationalist from Bengal. The image was shot around early 1940s.
Born24 August 1911 (1911-08-24)
Krishnanagar, Bengal Province, British India
Died26 December 1986 (1986-12-27) (aged 75)
Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India
MovementIndian Independence movement
Parent(s)
FamilyKalyani Das (sister)
AwardsPadma Shri Award

Bina Das (24 August 1911—1986) was an Indian revolutionary and nationalist from West Bengal.

Life[edit]

Family[edit]

Das was the daughter of a well-known Brahmo teacher, Beni Madhab Das and a social worker, Sarala Devi. Her elder sister Kalyani Das (Bhattacharyee) was also a freedom fighter.

Education[edit]

Das was a student of St. John's Diocesan Girls' Higher Secondary School and Bethune College, Calcutta.

Participation in India's freedom struggle[edit]

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.[1] She fired five shots but failed[2] and was sentenced to nine years of rigorous imprisonment.[3][4]

After her early release in 1939, Das joined the Congress party. In 1942, she participated in the Quit India movement and was imprisoned again from 1942 to 1945. From 1946 to 1947, she was a member of the Bengal Provincial Legislative Assembly and, from 1947 to 1951, of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. In 1947, she married Jatish Chandra Bhaumik, an Indian independence movement activist of the Jugantar group.[5]

Her sister Kalyani Bhattacharjee edited a book called Bengal Speaks (published in 1944), and dedicated it to her.[6]

She was a friend of Suhasini Ganguly, a freedom fighter.[7]

Award[edit]

Das won the Padma Shri award in 1960 for her "Social Work".[8]

Posthumas conferral of withheld degree[edit]

In 2012, Das and Pritilata Waddedar were conferred the Graduation Certificates posthumously by Calcutta University, nearly 80 years after British government withheld them.[9]

Death[edit]

After the death of her husband, Das led a lonely life in Rishikesh and died in anonymity.[10] Her dead body was recovered from the roadside on 26 December 1986 in a partially decomposed state.[11] It was found by the passing crowd. The police were informed and it took them a month to determine her identity.[5][12] An alternate report by the current relatives of Bina Das says she was found unconscious at a bus stand and was taken to hospital by the police, where she passed away the next day. This was stated during a documentary on Bina Das broadcast on 26-Dec-2021 on Kolkata Doordarshan, also known as DD Bangla. "Biplabi Bina Das" - Ek Ajana Jiban : Ran on DDBangla on 26-Dec-2021 at 1730hrs IST. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ9LPAOBjPU. 26 December 2021. {{cite AV media}}: External link in |title= (help)</ref>

Works[edit]

Das wrote two autobiographical works in Bengali: Shrinkhal Jhankar and Pitridhan.[5]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Kumar, Radha (1997). The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women's Rights and Feminism in India 1800-1990. Zubaan. ISBN 9788185107769.
  2. ↑ Five shots fired at governor Glasgow Herald, 8 February 1932, p. 11
  3. ↑ Girl, would-be assassin, gets nine years in India at Reading Eagle, 15 February 1932
  4. ↑ "Bina Das, Forgotten female freedom fighters". dnaindia.com. 15 April 2017. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Sengupta, Subodh Chandra and Anjali Basu (ed.) (1988) Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan (in Bengali), Kolkata: Sahitya Sansad, p.663
  6. ↑ Sengupta, Subodh; Basu, Anjali (2016). Sansad Bangali Charitavidhan (Bengali). Vol. 1. Kolkata: Sahitya Sansad. ISBN 978-81-7955-135-6.
  7. ↑ Chatterjee, India (1988). "The Bengali Bhadramahila —Forms of Organisation in the Early Twentieth Century" (PDF). Manushi: 33–34. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  8. ↑ "Padma Awards Directory (1954–2014)" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs (India). 21 May 2014. pp. 11–37. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 November 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  9. ↑ "After 80 yrs, posthumous degrees for revolutionaries - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  10. ↑ Rajesh, K. Guru. Sarfarosh: A Naadi Exposition of the Lives of Indian Revolutionaries. Notion Press. ISBN 978-93-5206-173-0.
  11. ↑ "Bina Das: 21-yr-old who shot Bengal Governor got Padma Shri, but died in penury". The Indian Express. 8 March 2020. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  12. ↑ Pinaki Biswas (2021). Rabindranath Hatya Shorojantra (Bengali). Kolkata: Lalmati Prakashan. p. 22. ISBN 978-81-953129-3-1.

External links[edit]

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