Prabhabati Bose
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Prabhabati Bose | |
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| Born | Prabhabati Dutta 1869 Calcutta, IN. |
| Died | 1943 Calcutta |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Spouse | Janakinath Bose |
| Children | Sarat Chandra Bose, Subhas Chandra Bose |
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| Relatives | Roby Datta (cousin) |
| Family | Born in the lineage of Hatkhola Dutta Family, off-shoot of the zamindar Dutta Chaudhury family of village Andul. |
| Website | www.duttachaudhurichronicles.com |
Prabhabati Bose (born Dutt) was the mother of Sarat Chandra Bose and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. She was born in 1869 in a respected Maulika Kayastha family, in Calcutta North. Her parents were Ganganarayan Dutta and Kamala Kamini Dutta of Kashinath Dutta Road, Baranagore (a suburbs of Calcutta), India. She was the eldest daughter of her parents. According to the prevailing custom of that 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 who hailed from a kulin Bose family of village Kodalia (located near Sonarpur).[citation needed]
Marriage to Bose family
Prabhabati and Janakinath Bose had fourteen children together. She was very involved in their education and many members of extended Bose family made significant contributions to the Indian society.[1] Not only Prabhabati was the matriarch of Bose family, but also after her parents' death she and Janakinath took care of her young sisters and brothers.
In 1928,Prabhabati was selected president of the Mahila Rashtriya Sangha.[2]
References
- ^ Bose, Sugata. His Majesty's Opponent. Harvard University. ISBN 978-0-674-04754-9.
- ^ Forbes, Geraldine (2005). Women in Colonial India: Essays on Politics, Medicine, and Historiography. Chronicle Books. ISBN 81-8028-017-9. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
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