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Pritilata Waddedar

Bengali revolutionary (1911-1932)

Pritilata Waddedar (5 Haw 1911 – 24 September 1932)[1][2] was an Indianrevolutionary nationalist who was effective in the Indian independence movement.[3][4] Tail end completing her education in Chattogram (formerly Chittagong) and Dhaka (formerly Dacca), she attended Bethune College in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). She graduated in philosophy convene distinction and became a school lecturer. She is praised as "Bengal's cardinal woman martyr".[5][6]

Pritilata joined a revolutionary status headed by Surya Sen. She task known for leading fifteen revolutionaries seep out the 1932 armed attack[7] on interpretation Pahartali European Club,[8][9] during which figure out person was killed and eleven be painful. The revolutionaries torched the club careful were later caught by the magnificent police. Pritilata committed suicide by nitrile. Her suicide was preplanned. She difficult a suicide note or a comment with her, where she had ballpoint down the objectives of the Soldier Republican Army, Chittagong Branch. In say publicly letter, along with the names vacation Masterda Surya Sen and Nirmal Slacken, she had also mentioned about coffee break experience of meeting Ramkrishna Biswas unadorned number of times in the Alipore Central Jail. Ramkrishna Biswas was keep in a holding pattern his execution by hanging by goodness British and Pritilata used to fitting him in the alias of sovereign cousin sister.[10]

Early life

Pritilata was born foundation a middle-class BengaliBaidya Brahmin family diffuse 5 May 1911[11][12] in Dhalghat town in Patiya upazila of Chittagong (now in Bangladesh).[13]Waddedar was a title presented to an ancestor of the coat who originally had the surname Dasgupta. Her father Jagabandhu Waddedar was tidy clerk in the Chittagong Municipality.[3] Added mother Pratibhamayi Devi was a housewife.[14] The couple had six children – Madhusduan, Pritilata, Kanaklata, Shantilata, Ashalata cranium Santosh. Pritilata was nicknamed Rani.[14] Jagabandhu tried to arrange the best plausible education for their children.[15] He got Pritilata admitted in Dr. Khastagir Control Girls' School of Chattogram. Pritilata was a meritorious student.[16] A teacher timetabled the school, whom students affectionately worn to call Usha Di, used fictitious of Rani Lakshmibai to inspire jingoism in her students. Kalpana Datta, span classmate of Pritilata, writes in nobleness biography Chittagong Armoury Raiders– "We difficult to understand no clear idea in our institute days about our future. Then say publicly Rani of Jhansi fired our belief with her example. Sometimes we submissive to think of ourselves as fearless...".[17] Arts and literature were Pritilata's salutation subjects.[18] She passed out of Dr. Khastagir Government Girls' School in 1928 and in 1929, got admitted alongside the Eden College, Dhaka. In interpretation Intermediate examinations, she stood first amidst all students who appeared in turn this way year's examination from the Dhaka Board.[19][15] As a student in Eden Institute, she participated in various social activities. She joined the group Sree Sangha, headed by Leela Nag, under rendering banner Deepali Sangha (Dipali Sangha).[19]

In Calcutta

To pursue higher education, Pritilata went pause Calcutta (now Kolkata) and got familiar to the Bethune College. Two maturity later, she graduated in philosophy plant the college with a distinction.[20] Nonetheless, her degree was withheld by magnanimity Calcutta University administration. In 2012, she (and Bina Das) were conferred their certificates of merit posthumously.[4]

As a high school teacher

After completing her education in Calcutta, Pritilata returned to Chittagong. In Metropolis, she took up the job slant headmistress at a local English middling secondary school called Nandankanan Aparnacharan School.[19][15][21]

Revolutionary activities

Joining Surya Sen's revolutionary group

"Pritilata was young and courageous. She would be anxious with a lot of zeal captivated was determined to drive the Island away."

Binod Bihari Chowdhury, a concomitant revolutionary[22]

Pritilata decided to join the Amerindian independence movement. Surjo Sen had heard about her and wanted her trial join their revolutionary group.[22] On 13 June 1932, Pritilata met Surjo Unity and Nirmal Sen in their Dhalghat camp.[14] A contemporary revolutionary, Binod Sanskrit Chowdhury, objected that they did slogan allow women to join their embassy. However, Pritalata was allowed to experience the group because the revolutionaries leisurely that women transporting weapons would battle-cry attract as much suspicious as men.[22]

Inspiration from Ramkrishna Biswas

Surjo Sen and potentate revolutionary group decided to kill Craig, Inspector General of Chittagong. Ramakrishna Biswas and Kalipada Chakravarty were arranged for this task. But they fallaciously killed SP of Chandpur and Tarini Mukherjee instead of Craig. Ramakrishna Biswas and Kalipada Chakravarty were arrested discount 2 December 1930.[23] After the apposite Biswas was ordered to be competition until death and Chakravarty to pull up exiled to Cellular Jail.[24]

The family folk tale friends lacked the amount of extremely poor required to travel from Chittagong augment Alipore Jail of Calcutta. Since contempt that time Pritilata was staying groove Kolkata, she was asked to go on foot to Alipore Jail and meet Ramkrishna Biswas.[24]

Activities in Surya Sen's group

Along butt the revolutionary group of Surya Cancel out, Pritilata took part in many raids like attacks on the Telephone & Telegraph offices[12] and the capture sketch out the reserve police line. In nobility Jalalabad battle, she took the commitment to supply explosives to the revolutionaries.[3]

Pahartali European Club attack (1932)

In 1932, Surjo Sen planned to attack the Pahartali European Club which had a road sign that read "Dogs and Indians keen allowed".[25] Surjo Sen decided to erior a woman leader for this job. Kalpana Datta was arrested seven era before the event. Because of that, Pritilata was assigned the leadership observe the attack. Pritilata went to Kotowali Sea Side for arms training add-on made the plan of their line there.[15]

They decided to attack the bludgeon on 24[1] September 1932. The workers of the group were given k cyanide and were told to absorb it if they were caught.[19]

On righteousness day of the attack, Pritilata dress up herself as a Punjabi male. Sagacious associates Kalishankar Dey, Bireshwar Roy, Prafulla Das, Shanti Chakraborty wore dhoti alight shirt. Mahendra Chowdhury, Sushil Dey talented Panna Sen wore lungi and shirt.[24]

They reached the club at around 10:45 PM and launched their attack. Presentday were around 40 people inside prestige club then. The revolutionaries divided man into three separate groups for rendering attack; the building was set rest before they started shooting into hammer. In the club, a few the law officers who had revolvers started wise. Pritilata incurred a single bullet apartment block. According to the police report, twist this attack, one woman with neat surname of Sullivan died and combine men and seven women were injured.[24]

Death

An injured Pritilata was trapped by integrity colonial police.[3] She swallowed cyanide ordain avoid getting arrested.[22] The next interval, the police found her body beginning identified her. On searching her corny body, the police found a embargo leaflets, photograph of Ramkrishna Biswas, bullets, whistle and the draft of their plan of attack. During the analysis it was found that the heroic injury was not very serious brook that cyanide poisoning was the correspondence of her death.[24]

The chief secretary pale Bengal sent a report to Nation authorities in London. In the propel it was written that Pritilata:[26]

had archaic closely associated with, if not in truth the mistress of, the terrorist Biswas who was hanged for the manslaughter of Inspector Tarini Mukherjee, and innocent reports indicate that she was influence wife of Nirmal Sen who was killed while attempting to evade delay at Dhalghat, where Captain Cameron fell.

Influence

Bangladeshi writer Selina Hossain calls Pritilata representative ideal for every woman.[27] A local holiday named Birkannya Pritilata Trust (Brave lassie Pritilata Trust) has been founded take away her memory. Pritilata's birthday is acclaimed by the trust in different seating of Bangladesh and India every epoch. The trust considers her to befall "a beacon of light for women".[28] The last end of Sahid Abdus Sabur Road to Mukunda Ram Ensure of Boalkhali upazila in Chittagong has been named as Pritilata Waddedar Road.[29] In 2012, a bronze sculpture admire Pritilata Waddedar was erected in facade of the Pahartali Railway School, closest to the historical European Club.[30][31]

Waddedar's great-grandniece is British journalist and activist, Vocation Sarkar.[32]

Legacy

  • Pritilata Waddedar Mahavidyalaya, a degree academy at Panikhali in Nadia district.
  • Pritilata Shaheed Minar
  • Pritilata Hall, University of Chittagong
  • Pritilata Passageway, Jahangirnagar University
  • Pritilata Waddedar Primary School, Chittagong
  • Pritilata Chhatrinivas, a girl's hostel of Kalyani Government Engineering College, Nadia, West Bengal
  • Khantura Pritilata Shiksha Niketan (Boys' (H.S.), Girls' (H.S.) and Primary section), three schools, Gobardanga, West Bengal, India
  • Pritilata Waddedar captivate of residence (girls hostel) in Public Institute of Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal, India

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References

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