Prabhabati Bose (Dutt)

Prabhabati Bose (Dutta)
Prabhabati Bose (Dutta)
	Prabhabati Bose (Dutta)
Born	Prabhabati Dutta; 1869; Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died	29 December 1943 (aged 74); Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Social activist and politician
Spouse(s)	Janakinath Bose
Children	Sarat Chandra Bose, Subhas Chandra Bose
Parents	Ganganarayan Dutta (father); Kamala Kamini Dutta (mother);
Relatives	Roby Datta (cousin)
Family	14 children [Including 8 sons (Subhash Chandra Bose, Sarat Chandra Bose & others) and 6 daughters]

Prabhabati Bose (née Dutta) was an Indian social activist and politician.^[1] She was the mother of Sarat Chandra Bose and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. She was born in 1869 into a respected Kayastha Bharadwaja clan Dutta family of Hatkhola, in Calcutta North.^[2] Her parents were Ganganarayan Dutta and Kamala Kamini Dutta of Kashinath Dutta Road, Baranagore (a suburb of Calcutta), India. She was her parents eldest daughter.

According to the prevailing customs of the time, the Dutts practised family (gotra) exogamy, caste endogamy and intra caste hypergamy. In 1880, at the age of 11, she was married off to Janakinath Bose who hailed from a Kulin Bose family from the village Kodalia (located near Sonarpur).^{[citation needed]}

Marriage and children[edit]

Prabhabati and Janakinath Bose had fourteen children together. She was very involved in their education and many members of the extended Bose family made significant contributions to Indian society.^[3] Not only was Prabhabati the matriarch of Bose family, but following her parents' deaths she and her husband took care of her younger siblings.

She gave birth to fourteen children, six daughters and eight sons, among whom were nationalist leader Sarat Chandra Bose, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and distinguished cardiologist Dr. Sunil Chandra Bose.

Political activism[edit]

In 1928, Prabhabati was selected president of the Mahila Rashtriya Sangha.^[1]

References[edit]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Forbes, Geraldine (2005). Women in Colonial India: Essays on Politics, Medicine, and Historiography. Chronicle Books. ISBN 81-8028-017-9. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
↑ An Indian Pilgrim: An Unfinished Autobiography And Collected Letters 1897-1921, Subhas Chandra Bose, Asia Publishing House, London, 1965, p. 1
↑ Bose, Sugata. His Majesty's Opponent. Harvard University. ISBN 978-0-674-04754-9.

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[:0-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Forbes, Geraldine (2005). Women in Colonial India: Essays on Politics, Medicine, and Historiography. Chronicle Books. ISBN 81-8028-017-9. Retrieved 5 January 2015.

[2] An Indian Pilgrim: An Unfinished Autobiography And Collected Letters 1897-1921, Subhas Chandra Bose, Asia Publishing House, London, 1965, p. 1

[3] Bose, Sugata. His Majesty's Opponent. Harvard University. ISBN 978-0-674-04754-9.

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v t e Bose family
1st generation	Janakinath Bose Prabhabati Bose (Dutt)
2nd generation	Sarat Chandra Bose Subhas Chandra Bose Emilie Schenkl
3rd generation	Anita Bose Pfaff Ardhendu Bose Sisir Kumar Bose Subrata Bose
4th generation	Sugata Bose Sarmila Bose Sumantra Bose