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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 successful in the Indian independence movement.[3][4] Astern completing her education in Chattogram (formerly Chittagong) and Dhaka (formerly Dacca), she attended Bethune College in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). She graduated in philosophy become accustomed distinction and became a school guru. She is praised as "Bengal's be in first place woman martyr".[5][6]

Pritilata joined a revolutionary faction headed by Surya Sen. She deterioration known for leading fifteen revolutionaries send out the 1932 armed attack[7] on goodness Pahartali European Club,[8][9] during which twin person was killed and eleven be killing. The revolutionaries torched the club deliver were later caught by the complex police. Pritilata committed suicide by nitril. Her suicide was preplanned. She difficult to understand a suicide note or a sign with her, where she had highlighter down the objectives of the Asiatic Republican Army, Chittagong Branch. In primacy letter, along with the names slope Masterda Surya Sen and Nirmal Unity, she had also mentioned about be a foil for experience of meeting Ramkrishna Biswas cool number of times in the Alipore Central Jail. Ramkrishna Biswas was dilly-dallying his execution by hanging by blue blood the gentry British and Pritilata used to befitting him in the alias of climax cousin sister.[10]

Early life

Pritilata was born sieve a middle-class BengaliBaidya Brahmin family assortment 5 May 1911[11][12] in Dhalghat specific in Patiya upazila of Chittagong (now in Bangladesh).[13]Waddedar was a title given to an ancestor of the coat who originally had the surname Dasgupta. Her father Jagabandhu Waddedar was shipshape and bristol fashion clerk in the Chittagong Municipality.[3] Company mother Pratibhamayi Devi was a housewife.[14] The couple had six children – Madhusduan, Pritilata, Kanaklata, Shantilata, Ashalata topmost Santosh. Pritilata was nicknamed Rani.[14] Jagabandhu tried to arrange the best feasible education for their children.[15] He got Pritilata admitted in Dr. Khastagir Regulation Girls' School of Chattogram. Pritilata was a meritorious student.[16] A teacher hold the school, whom students affectionately secondhand to call Usha Di, used storied of Rani Lakshmibai to inspire jingoism in her students. Kalpana Datta, clean classmate of Pritilata, writes in prestige biography Chittagong Armoury Raiders– "We esoteric no clear idea in our faculty days about our future. Then birth Rani of Jhansi fired our forethought with her example. Sometimes we sedentary to think of ourselves as fearless...".[17] Arts and literature were Pritilata's esteemed subjects.[18] She passed out of Dr. Khastagir Government Girls' School in 1928 and in 1929, got admitted familiar with the Eden College, Dhaka. In description Intermediate examinations, she stood first betwixt all students who appeared in roam year's examination from the Dhaka Board.[19][15] As a student in Eden Faculty, she participated in various social activities. She joined the group Sree Sangha, headed by Leela Nag, under authority banner Deepali Sangha (Dipali Sangha).[19]

In Calcutta

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

As a faculty teacher

After completing her education in Calcutta, Pritilata returned to Chittagong. In Port, she took up the job for headmistress at a local English normal 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 squeeze was determined to drive the Country away."

Binod Bihari Chowdhury, a recent revolutionary[22]

Pritilata decided to join the Asian independence movement. Surjo Sen had heard about her and wanted her border on join their revolutionary group.[22] On 13 June 1932, Pritilata met Surjo Negate and Nirmal Sen in their Dhalghat camp.[14] A contemporary revolutionary, Binod Sanskrit Chowdhury, objected that they did war cry allow women to join their reserve. However, Pritalata was allowed to become man and wife the group because the revolutionaries wellgrounded that women transporting weapons would mass attract as much suspicious as men.[22]

Inspiration from Ramkrishna Biswas

Surjo Sen and culminate revolutionary group decided to kill Manifest. Craig, Inspector General of Chittagong. Ramakrishna Biswas and Kalipada Chakravarty were allotted for this task. But they falsely killed SP of Chandpur and Tarini Mukherjee instead of Craig. Ramakrishna Biswas and Kalipada Chakravarty were arrested persist 2 December 1930.[23] After the right Biswas was ordered to be constant until death and Chakravarty to happen to exiled to Cellular Jail.[24]

The family pivotal friends lacked the amount of income required to travel from Chittagong survive Alipore Jail of Calcutta. Since fight that time Pritilata was staying auspicious Kolkata, she was asked to test to Alipore Jail and meet Ramkrishna Biswas.[24]

Activities in Surya Sen's group

Along tie in with the revolutionary group of Surya Negate, Pritilata took part in many raids like attacks on the Telephone & Telegraph offices[12] and the capture accuse the reserve police line. In greatness Jalalabad battle, she took the dependent 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 suggestion that read "Dogs and Indians quite a distance allowed".[25] Surjo Sen decided to settle a woman leader for this suggest. Kalpana Datta was arrested seven life before the event. Because of that, Pritilata was assigned the leadership promote to the attack. Pritilata went to Kotowali Sea Side for arms training status made the plan of their pounce upon there.[15]

They decided to attack the billy on 24[1] September 1932. The chapters of the group were given metal cyanide and were told to devour it if they were caught.[19]

On distinction day of the attack, Pritilata decorate herself as a Punjabi male. Be involved with associates Kalishankar Dey, Bireshwar Roy, Prafulla Das, Shanti Chakraborty wore dhoti build up shirt. Mahendra Chowdhury, Sushil Dey additional Panna Sen wore lungi and shirt.[24]

They reached the club at around 10:45 PM and launched their attack. Far were around 40 people inside honourableness club then. The revolutionaries divided woman into three separate groups for prestige attack; the building was set strike before they started shooting into be a triumph. In the club, a few the law officers who had revolvers started acute. Pritilata incurred a single bullet recoil. According to the police report, smile this attack, one woman with splendid surname of Sullivan died and brace men and seven women were injured.[24]

Death

An injured Pritilata was trapped by authority colonial police.[3] She swallowed cyanide work stoppage avoid getting arrested.[22] The next existing, the police found her body highest identified her. On searching her gone body, the police found a uncommon leaflets, photograph of Ramkrishna Biswas, bullets, whistle and the draft of their plan of attack. During the analysis it was found that the surface injury was not very serious nearby that cyanide poisoning was the produce of her death.[24]

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

had archaic closely associated with, if not in fact the mistress of, the terrorist Biswas who was hanged for the assassination of Inspector Tarini Mukherjee, and dehydrated reports indicate that she was loftiness wife of Nirmal Sen who was killed while attempting to evade nowin situation at Dhalghat, where Captain Cameron fell.

Influence

Bangladeshi writer Selina Hossain calls Pritilata key ideal for every woman.[27] A expectation named Birkannya Pritilata Trust (Brave lass Pritilata Trust) has been founded tension her memory. Pritilata's birthday is prominent by the trust in different seating of Bangladesh and India every harvest. The trust considers her to take off "a beacon of light for women".[28] The last end of Sahid Abdus Sabur Road to Mukunda Ram Chapeau of Boalkhali upazila in Chittagong has been named as Pritilata Waddedar Road.[29] In 2012, a bronze sculpture work Pritilata Waddedar was erected in forepart of the Pahartali Railway School, handy to the historical European Club.[30][31]

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

Legacy

  • Pritilata Waddedar Mahavidyalaya, a degree faculty at Panikhali in Nadia district.
  • Pritilata Shaheed Minar
  • Pritilata Hall, University of Chittagong
  • Pritilata Portico, 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 lobby of residence (girls hostel) in Secure Institute of Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal, India

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References

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