155. Kulendu Guharoy (1897-1978). 156. Kushal Kanwar

Kulendu was born in Tangail, Mymensingh. A student picketing was organised on the occasion of the arrival of Fuler Saheb, the Lieutenant Governor of newly formed East Beng  After the war of Baleshwar,  Kulendu along with other leaders, at the order of  Dr. Judugopal Mukherjee, the leader Jugantar,  passed in different inadmissible hills of Assam, Bhutan, and Tibet and in dense forest with the hope of getting help and arms from China. He returned to his native land alone after sometime and was arrested in Regulation three and remained in Jail from 1917 to 1920. He was arrested several times for breaking the rules of weapons and other revolutionary works. He returned Mymensingh after release in 1938 and joined Congress. He came to West Bengal after partition. He went several times to East Bengal for organising freedom fighters in 1971. He remained as a bachelor throughout his life.

Kushal was hanged for joining Quit India  movement in 1942. he was a resident of Assam.    

153. Kumudbehari Guhathakurata (1895-1984). 154. Kumud Ranjan Roy (1917-1977).

Kumud behari was born in Barisal. He joined in non-cooperation movement of India in his student life. Then he joined in Anushilan Samity. He was imprisoned for 20 years for joining in Freedom mevement of India. He remained in police custody for 10 years during East Pakistan. He was the front rank leader of the National Awami Party (NAP) and Krishak Samity.

Kumudranjan was born in Kushtia. Under his leadership  the youths and the teenagers formed a Sbuj Sangha. At that time afellow named Jatindramohan Roy formed a Gana Mangal in the name of the goddess mother. Kumudranjan began his political life at his inspiration and joined Congress. He joined in Salt  Satyagraha in 1930. Later on he joined Jugantar Revolutionary organisation giving up non-violent movement. He was imprisoned for several reasons. He remained either in jail or in underground during 1930-38. After release in 1938, he was a member of  Communist Party of India till his death. He was the secretary of India-Soviet Peace Committee. He went Russia at the invitation of  Soviet Govt. He was awarded a Tamra Tatra in 1972.

152. Kumar Chanda Jana (1895-1973)

Kumar Chandra Jana was born on 28 th Nov 1889 in Basudevpur village of Sutahata Thana in Midnapore district. In 1912 he was a student of Normal School. CalcuttaHe did not sit for his final Exam. in B.Sc. in 1920 and joined the Non-cooperation movement at the call of Gandhiji . He remained in police custody for to years in 1922-23. He was also imprisoned in 1930 for joining in /non-cooperation movement. In 1935, he remained underground in his own village, founded Gandhi Ashram there, and lived there with his wife. He remained in jail for 1942-45 for joining in Quit India movement in 1942. The first mouth piece of Sarbodaya Sangha namely "Gram Seva"  was published in 1948 by Kumar Chandra and edited by him.He joined All India Workers and Peasants Party in 1951 and elected as an MLA in 1952 election. When Binobaji came to Midnapore, he was influenced and joined the Bhudan movement giving up the MLA-ship.  

151. Kiran Sankar Roy (1891-1949)

Roy, Kiran Sankar (1891-1949)  a scion of the Teota Raj, was the son of Harasankar Ray Chaudhuri. Although his formal education began at the Teota Academy, he passed the secondary level ‘Entrance' examination from Hindu School, Calcutta. He joined St Xavier's College, and subsequently Bangabasi College, from where he did his IA (Intermediate Arts). Around this time, the teenage Kiran Sankar developed links with the extremist-terrorist movement. He was sent to England in late 1909 for his university education, and joined New College, Oxford, around 1910. Roy was a prominent member of the Oxford Indian Majlis and was President for a term. He took his BA (Oxon) degree with honours in History in 1913. Returning to India, Roy taught History at Presidency College and Sanskrit College, Calcutta, for a brief while. While in the Bengal Education Service, Kiransankar spoke at a meeting in the Town Hall organised in protest against the Rowlatt Act. The authorities took great exception at this, and asked Roy to explain his conduct. In reply, he submitted his resignation. He again went for England, shortly afterwards, to finish the legal training at the Lincoln's Inn he had earlier left incomplete. Although he was called to the Bar and became a barrister in 1921, he never practiced law. Kiran Sankar Roy Back home, Roy joined the Congress, and became the vice-principal and professor of English literature at the ‘national college' (Kalikata Vidyapitha), with subhas chandra bose as principal. Kiransankar was later the ‘vice chancellor' of the ‘national university' (known at that time as Gauriya Sarba-Vidyayatan). In 1921, at the call of the Congress, Kiran Sankar became actively involved in the Non-cooperation Movement, along with Subhas Bose, under the leadership of (Deshbandhu) Chittaranjan Das. He was detained during this time for writing a ‘seditious' article. A disciple of CR Das joined the Swarajya Party when it was formed at the Gaya Congress (1922) under the leadership of Motilal Nehru and CR Das. He became the secretary to the Swarajya Party in 1923, and was elected to the Bengal Council, for two consecutive terms. When the Civil Disobedience Movement got under way in 1930, Roy was arrested a second time, along with Subhas Bose, for leading an illegal procession in Calcutta. A prominent figure in Bengal Congress politics for almost thirty years, Kiron Sankar had been a member of the Bengal Provincial Congress Committee and the All-India Congress Committee since 1922 and held important positions in both its parliamentary and non-parliamentary wings. In the 1937 elections held in accordance with the provisions of the 1935 Act, Roy was elected to the Bengal Legislative Assembly. He was Leader of the Congress Party, and Leader of the Opposition, in the Bengal Assembly in the late 1930s and 1940s. After partition, Kiran Sankar Roy was for some time the Leader of the Congress Party in the East Bengal Legislative Assembly, and also the Leader of the Opposition and of the Congress party in the Pakistan Constituent Assembly. He later resigned his membership of both the assemblies, and joined Dr BC Roy's West Bengal cabinet as Home Minister on March 4, 1948. He died shortly afterwards, at fifty-seven, on 20th February 1949. Kiran Sankar was a key figure in the complex, clique/faction based and Calcutta-centric Congress politics of Bengal, following the death of CR Das in the mid-twenties. Roy played a central role in the turbulent decade of the forties. He was prominently among (along with Sarat Chandra Bose) the handful of Congress politicians who made a determined attempt at resisting the proposed partition of Bengal.  Roy and Bose, in open conflict with the Congress High Command, came to an eleventh-hour agreement with Suhrawardy and Abul Hashim for the creation of a ‘United and Sovereign Bengal' and a ‘Free (Socialist) State of Bengal'; however, this plan did not succeed. Apart from his role as a politician, Kiran Sankar made significant contributions to Bengali literature. He was a prominent member of the ‘Sabuj Patra' group led by pramatha chowdhury, and of sukumar roy's celebrated ‘Monday Club'. Roy's essays and short stories (in the ‘Sabuj Patra', ‘Prabasi', ‘Atmasakti' and other publications) were appreciated by a large section of readers, and well received by critics. He published a collection of short stories under the title of ‘Sapta Parna'. Kiransankar Roy Chaudhuri was married to Padma Devi, of the zamindar family of Kirtipasha, Barisal.  [R Roy].

149. Kiran Chandra Mukhopadhyay (1893-1954). 150. Kiranbala Rudra (1899 - ?)

Kiran was born in Jessore. He was a freedom fighter, a revolutionary and a renowned journalist. He started his revolutionary life from 1905 under Debabrata Basu (later known as Swami Prajnananda). He remained under when a warrant had been issued in his name for writing two revolutionary books, 1. Mukti Kon Pathe" and "Kwa pantha" published in "Hitabadi". he established two organisations namely, 1. " uttar Kolkata Yubak sangha" in Nayan Chand Street of north-Calcutta ande "Maheshalaya."  He was caught red handed and undergone rigorous imprisonment after trial for one and half years for making explosives in Maheshalay.
He was arrested and imprisoned for being involved in India-German conspiracy of during WWI in 1916-19. At this period he was involved in founding Saraswati Press.  He had undergone rigorous imprisonment for five years along with Gopinath Saha and others for murdering Arnest J.K.  mistakenly to kill Treggart Saheb in 1924.  He was the main shelter of the revolutionaries of Chittagang Armoury Raid in 1930 and was in chrge of preparing crackers in Dalhousie and remained again in custody from 1930 to 1937. He was kept confined during 1942 - 45 during Quit India movement. After being released he passed his life with students and youths organising "Prajnananda Pathagar'.

Kiranbala was born in Bikrampur Dhaka. She was influenced by the Folk Drama and Patriotic song of Mukunda Das.Breaking all the obstruction of her father-in-law's house she joined the freedom movement in 1930.They established a nationalist post office in Vikrampur in 1931. She remained imprisoned for one year and eight months for joining in civil disobedience movement in 1932. She was again arrested in Oct. 1942 and was punished by the court for two years imprisonment. She was released after one year for break down of her health. She joined in Bhudan Movement.

147. Kiran Chakrabarty (1921 - ?). 148. Kiran Chandra Mitra (1883-1954)

Kiran was born in Nrayangang Dhaka, His great maternal uncle was a leader of Anushilan Revolutionary organisation, named Ramesh Acharya. Kiran was being brought up in an atmosphere of the Congress. The house, Manabari, attached to their own house was the shelter of the political workers at that time. He joined, in such circumstances, to the Revolutionary Socialist Party. He remained underground in his own house. at the time Quit India Movement his maternal uncles were arrested and he had to take the leadership of the movement.At the end of 1942, he was arrested and remained in police custody. He was released in 1945. He became member of the working committee of RSP in Narayangang. His political work was suspended during the communal riot of 1946-47. He had to come to West Bengal after partition of India.  

Kiran Chandra was a leader of labour movement. He had given up his service to oppose the misbehabiour of the Employer to the workers. He had to go to prison for conducting the historical Strike of the workers of 1928. He took the leadership of editing papers in Hindi, English and Bengali to write in favour  of workers. At the Congress Session of 1928 held in Park Circus Maidan, he took the lead of the rally of 50 thousands workers covering a length of 2 miles inside the session to picket in support of their demands.  

146.Kichlew, Saifuddin (1888-1963)

Saifuddin Kitchlew

Saifuddin Kitchlew
Born	(1888-01-15)January 15, 1888 Amritsar
Died	October 9, 1963(1963-10-09) (aged 75) Delhi
Nationality	Indian
Ethnicity	Kashmiri
Occupation	freedom fighter, politician

Saifuddin Kitchlew  (January 15, 1888 - October 9, 1963) was an Indian freedom fighter, barrister and an Indian Muslim nationalist leader. An Indian National Congress politician, he first became Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (Punjab PCC) head and later the General Secretary of the AICC in 1924. He is most remembered for the protests in Punjab after the implementation of Rowlatt Act in March 1919, after which on April 10, he and another leader Dr. Satya Pal, were secretly sent to Dharamsala. A public protest rally against their arrest and that of Gandhi, on April 13, 1919 at Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, led to the infamous Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
He was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize (now known as Lenin Peace Prize) in 1952.

Early life

Saifuddin Kitchlew was born to the Kashmiri Muslim family of Azizuddin Kitchlew and Dan Bibi on January 15, 1888, in Amritsar, Punjab. His father owned a pashmina and saffron trading business and originally belonged to a Brahmin family of Baramulla. As it was his ancestor, Prakash Ram Kitchlew, who had converted into Islam and later his grandfather, Ahmed Jo migrated from Kashmir in mid 19th century to Amritsar after of the great Kashmir famine of 1871.
Kitchlew went to Islamia High School in Amritsar, and later obtained a B.A. from Cambridge University, and a Ph.D. from a German university, and began practicing law in India.

Career

On his return he established his legal practice in Amritsar, and soon came in contact with Mahatma Gandhi. In 1919, he was elected the Municipal Commissioner of the city of Amritsar. He took part in the Satyagraha (Non-cooperation) movement and soon left his practice, to become part of the freedom movement, as well as the All India Khilafat Committee.

Political career

Jallianwala Bagh

Dr. Kitchlew was first exposed to Indian nationalism when the whole country was outraged by the Rowlatt Acts. Kitchlew was arrested with Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Satyapal for leading protests in Punjab against the legislation. To protest the arrest of the trio, a public meeting had gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh, when Gen. Reginald Dyer and his troops fired mercilessly upon the unarmed, civilian crowd. Hundreds of people were killed, and hundreds more injured. This act, the worst case of civilian massacre since the Indian rebellion of 1857 outraged the nation, and riots broke out all throughout the Punjab.

Political mainstream

Kitchlew rose in the Indian National Congress, first heading its Punjab unit, and then rising to the post of AICC General Secretary, an important executive position in 1924. Kitchlew was also the chairman of the reception committee of the Congress session in Lahore in 1929-30, where on January 26, 1930, the Indian National Congress declared Indian independence and inaugurated an era of civil disobedience and revolution aimed to achieve full independence.
Kithclew was also a founding leader of the Naujawan Bharat Sabha (Indian Youth Congress), which rallied hundreds of thousands of students and young Indians to nationalist causes. He was also the member of the Foundation Committee of Jamia Millia Islamia, which met on 29 October 1920 and led to the foundation of Jamia Millia Islamia University.
He started an Urdu daily “Tanzim” to uplift the Muslims and was instrumental in establishment of Swaraj Ashram in January 1921 at Amritsar to train young men for the national work and to promote Hindu-Muslim unity. Throughout the 1930-1934 struggles, Kitchlew was repeatedly arrested, and in all spent fourteen years behind bars.

Post Independence

Dr. Kitchlew was opposed to the Muslim League's demand for Pakistan and later in the 1940s became President of the Punjab Congress Committee. In 1947 he strongly opposed the acceptance of the Partition of India by the Congress Party. He spoke out against it at public meetings all over the country, and at the All India Congress Committee session that ultimately voted for the resolution. He called it a blatant "surrender of nationalism for communalism". Some years after partition and Independence, he left the Congress.  He began to come closer to the Communist Party of India. He was the founder president of the All-India Peace Council and also remained President of 4th Congress of All-India Peace Council, held at Madras in 1954, besides remaining Vice President of the World Peace Council.
He also got the award of Lenin Prize from Soviet Union in 1954.
Dr. Kitchlew moved to Delhi after their house was burnt down during partition of India riots of 1947, thereafter he spent the rest of his years working for closer political and diplomatic relations with the USSR, and received the Stalin Peace Prize in 1952, which was renamed for Lenin Peace Prize under De-Stalinization. In 1951, a Government Act made him, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, life trustees of the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Trust.
He died on October 9, 1963, survived by a son, Toufique Kitchlew, who now lives in a Lampur village on the outskirts of Delhi, and five daughters. While four of his daughters were married into Pakistan, (two survive to date), one daughter, Zahida Kitchlew, was married to the Malyalam music director M. B. Sreenivasan, a Hindu gentleman.

Legacy

A posh urban suburban colony in Ludhiana, Punjab is named after Dr. Saifuddin Kichlew. It is popularly called Kitchlu Nagar.
Indian Post released a special commemorative stamp featuring him in 1989. The Jamia Milia Islamia created a Saifuddin Kitchlew Chair at the MMAJ Academy of Third world Studies in 2009

144. Kalipada Mukhopadhyay (?-1933).145. Kalipada Mukhopadhyay (1901-1962)

Born in Bikrampur, Dhaka. The cruel  additional district Magistrate died by a bullet shot by Kamalaksa Sen. Kalipada was arrest and hanged at the Dhaka Jail.

Kalipada Mukhopadhya (2) was born in Bankura. He did not complete his education and joined the non-cooperation movement . He was imprisoned for several times for political reasons. Sometimes he became the Secretary of Bengal Provincial Govt. He became minister in charge of different departments after independence.

!42. Kalipada Guharoy. 143. Kalipada Chakrabarty, Panditda (1908-23.3.1992)

Kalipada Guha Roy was born in Faridpur. He joined Jaugantar Dal and became a hard activist at an early age. He passed prison life from 1930 to 1938. After release he engaged himself in journalism and in literature
Kalipada Chakrabarty was born in Chittagnag. In his boyhood he learned Sanskrit in a Tol. He joined the revolutionary organisation of Masterda Surya Sen in 1923 and became a leader in the second rank.He and Ambika Chakrabarty took  the leadership of six others , attacked the Telephone and telegraph Bhavan and after destroying them, they joined the main team in the headquarters who occupied the armory of Polish. He fought in a front battle with other revolutionaries against the machine gun of the military. After the battle they showed guard of honour to the martyrs and came down from the hill top to be divided in two groups. Then at the advice of Masterda they went under ground.At the instruction of Masterda he and Ramkrishna Biswas fired at the polish inspector general Mr. Crage on 1Dec 1930. But unfortunately, by mistake, an ordinary polish got the bullets and expired. After trial Ramkrishna Biswas was hanged and Kalipada Chakrabarty was sentenced to lifelong imprisonment and was sent to Andaman. in 1933. He joined the Communist Party of India after being released. After Independence he joined in many democratic movements of East Pakistan and West Bengal and sometimes remained underground.He died in Chittagang.    

140. Kali Charan Ghosh (1895-1984). 141. Kalinath Roy (1878-1945)

Kali Charan Ghosh was a freedom fighter, a journalist, a lawyer, and a biographer. He was born in Kodalia, 24-Parganas. While reading in M.A. class he joined in Politics and could not sit for final exam. He organised with the help of a group of members of Anushilan Samity to agriculturem weaving, and cottage industry.He was an assistant editor of "Swasthya Samachar", "Health and Happiness". He created sensation in British Parliament by his book "The Lawless Laws". He gave up practicing legal profession and took up Journalism. He was a curator  of Calcutta Museum of Calcutta Corporation. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy appointed him as a Chief Information Officer Of Govt. of Bengal.. His important books are " Bharater Panya", Famines Of Bengal (1770-1943), The role of Honour which was translated in different languages brought his name and fame. He handed over meny important document to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. 
Kalinath Roy was born in Jessore, He was a renowned journalist.He became an assistant editor of "dainik Bengali" edited by Surendranath Banerjee. He became editor of the dily news paper "Tribune" published from Lahore ( at present Pakistan) in  1915 and remained in his profession for consecutive 30 years.

   1. The appellant was convicted on the 28th May, 1919, by a Court of Commissioners sitting at Lahore under Ordinance I of 1919, and having the powers of a summary court-martial, of an offence under Section 124 A of the Indian Penal Code, i.e., of haying by written words excited or attemped to excite disaffection towards His Majesty or the Government established by law in British India, and was sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonmentafterwards reduced to three months' simple imprisonmentand to a fine of Rs. 1,000. Special leave to appeal was granted by His Majesty in Council on the 18th August, 1919.
2. The facts are shortly as follows:In March and April, 1919. there was unrest in the Punjab. Serious disturbances occurred at Delhi on the 30th March, when some persons were killed; and these disturbances were followed by disorder and violence at Amritsar and Lahore and elsewhere in the Punjab. The disturbances at Lahore occurred on the 6th, 10th, 11th and 12th April, the evidence showing that on the 11th April, Lahore city was "practically closed to the police." The appellant Boy was the editor of the " Tribune", a daily newspaper published at Lahore, and on the 6th, 8fch, 9th, 10th and 11th April, he published in that newspaper paragraphs and articles comment on the deaths at Delhi (the persons killed there being repeatedly Core, described as "martyrs") and charging the Government with grave misconduct in connection with the disturbances. It was stated in the issue of the 10th April that the "atmosphere was highly surcharged" and the "public mind in a state of unusual excitement."
. A major incident occurred in April 1919 when the British massacred Indians at Jalianwala Baag. The Tribune published a news report, Prayer at the Jama Masjid, on 6 April 1919. Kali Nath Roy was brought before the Martial Tribunal under Lieutenant Colonel Irvine and was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for two years and a fine of Rs 1,000.

Samarendra Nath Roy's parents were Suniti Bala and Kali Nath Roy who was the editor of The Tribune, a nationalist daily newspaper published in Lahore. Samarendra Nath was the oldest of his parents two children. A major incident occurred in April 1919 when the British massacred Indians at Jalianwala Baag. The Tribune published a news report, Prayer at the Jama Masjid, on 6 April 1919. Kali Nath Roy was brought before the Martial Tribunal under Lieutenant Colonel Irvine and was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for two years and a fine of Rs 1,000.
He was released after eight months for  the attempts made by Rabindranath Tagore  and others.

139. Kalidas Naharay (1911-1960)

Kalidas the communal harmony. was born in faridpur but stayed in Bagurah. His father was a polish sub-inspector.While reading in class eight in Coronation School he joined the Jugantar Party of North Bengal and became a leader.He came in contact with Jatindramohan Roy, founder of Ganamangal Ashram  and was initiated as a revolutionary.He took the leading role of different social activities such  as flood, epidemic, nursing the patients etc.he passed the Matriculation Examination in 1929. Subhas Chandra Basu was the commander-in-chief of volunteers in the Calcutta congress in 1928.At that time military training camps were organised in different districts of Bengal province. Bagurah guards was formed in Bagurah. Kalidas was the Major of that guard. In those camps stick fighting,sword fighting, wrestling, carate etc were being trained. There were also established Bhratrimangal, Matrimangal etc.Many girls joined in this Matrimangal. Moreover, the feeling for mother land and patriotism were injected in those camps by lecturing with the help of a lantern. After a few days of the incident of Armoury raid of Chittagung, Biren Niyogi, Swadesh Banerjee, Anil Banerjee and himself were arrested. They were the first prisoners held in Preventive Detention Act . He was released after detention of 6 years in Bauxa Fort in 1937. He engaged himself as a photographer for his economic stringency. He became the district organiser when Subhas Chandra formed Forward Bloc resigning from Congress. He committed fasting in jail being arrested in joining 42 movement. He was released in 1946 and organised the movement of the trial of the prisoners of INA.  He organised public opinion against the Division of India and  the communal harmony. He stayed in East Pakistan in his mother land after partition of India.But He became eye-sore of the Govt of East Pakistan. He had to pass very hard days at the end of his life. he died in Bagurah keepin his wife and a son.    

137. Kamini Kumar Chanda (1862-1936). 138. Kamini Kumar Datta (1878-1959)

Kamini Kumar Chanda was a non-parallel leader of Surma Valley. He was an M.A.B.L. He practiced law in his profession. While students he became a Congress worker. He joined the Swaraj Party of Deshabandhu and Motilal Nehru. he was the chairman of the Municipality of Silchar, a member of the Senate of Calcutta University. He became the Chairman of the Silchar Congress Committee on the occasion of its Silver Jubilee celebration. He also became the president of the Bengal Provincial Congress Committee in 1919.

	Banglapedia in Bengali
Datta, Kaminikumar (1878-1959) a lawyer and politician. Kaminikumar Datta hailed from Sreekail under Muradnagar upazila of Comilla district. Son of Krishnakumar Datta, the head pundit of Chittagong Government Collegiate High School, he was born on 25 June 1878. He passed the Entrance Examination from the Chittagong Government High School in 1894, graduated from the Calcutta Ripon College in 1898 and joined the Comilla District Bar in 1901 with a BL degree of the Calcutta University. For a short period he served as a Munsif and then joined the Comilla Bar and took up the legal profession again. He was enrolled as an Advocate of the Calcutta High Court in 1918. Kaminikumar Datta belonged to the leftist group of politicians in the indian national congress. He took active part in the swadeshi, non-cooperation and civil disobedience movements. The police raided his house and imprisoned him several times for his anti-British activities. Elected a member to the Bengal Legislative Council in 1937, Datta was the deputy leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party. He convened the All-India Peasants' Conference at Comilla in May 1938 and was the President of the Reception Committee. He also convened a conference of the All-Bengal and Assam Lawyers' Association in 1938 at Comilla. In 1939 he presided over the Conference of the All-Bengal and Assam Lawyers' Association held at Khulna. Datta was the President of the Tippera District Relief, Rescue and Rehabilitation Committee that was formed to quench the riots of Noakhali and Tippera districts. After the partition of India in 1947, Kaminikumar Datta was a member of the Basic Principles Committee formed for making the first Constitution of Pakistan (1956). He was elected a member of the Provincial Legislative Assembly of East Pakistan in 1954. He was the Law Minister of the Pakistan central government from August 1955 to September 1956 in the cabinet of Chowdhury Muhammad Ali and represented Pakistan at the United Nations. Kaminikumar Datta was connected with many social welfare organisations, including the 'Abhay-Ashram' of Comilla, established in 1923. He was a member of the Comilla District Board and the Chairman of the Comilla Municipality. He made valuable contributions to the establishment of the Sreekail College founded by his younger brother, Captain narendra nath datta in 1941. The Datta brothers also established an English High School at their village Sreekail and named it 'The Sreekail Krishnakumar Datta English High School' after their father. He turned his residence at Kandirpar in Comilla town in to a hostel for the female students and named it 'The Mrnalini Chhatri-Nibas' after his deceased wife Mrinalini Datta. He also donated all his landed property at Sreekail in favour of the local educational institutions founded by Datta brothers. Kaminikumar Datta died on 4 January 1959.

136. Kanu Majhi (1820-23.2.1856)

Kanu Majhi was a nonparallel leader of Surma Valley. He was one among the three leaders of Santal Revolution of 1855-56. The main leader was Sidhu. He was his younger brother. Chand and Bhairav were their two other brothers. He died at the polish firing on the dam opposite to Birbhum district. Bhairav and Chand also died in the

direct fight near Bhagalpur.

     On 30 June 1855, two Santal rebel leaders, Sidhu and Kanhu Murmu, 
mobilized ten thousand Santals and declared a rebellion against British colonists. The Santals initially gained some success in guerilla war tactics using bows and arrows but soon the British found out a new way to tackle these rebels. As the legend goes, the Santals skilled in archery could throw arrows extremely accurate and with great impact. The British soon understood that there was no point fighting them in the forest but to force them come out of the forest. So in a conclusive battle which followed, the British equipped with modern firearms and war elephants stationed themselves at the foot of the hill on which the Santals were stationed. When the battle began, the British officer ordered fire without bullets. As the Santals could not trace this trap set by the much experienced British war strategists, they charged in full force. This step proved to be disastrous for them for as soon as they neared the foot of the hill, the British army attacked with full power and this time by using real bullets. The hapless Santals were cut to pieces.

Thereafter the British attacked every village of the Santals, plundered them, raped their women and whipped and castrated their teenagers, to make sure that the last drop of revolutionary spirit was annihilated. Although the revolution was brutally suppressed, it marked a great change in the colonial rule and policy. The day of rebellion is still celebrated among the Santal community with great respect and spirit for the thousands of the Santal martyrs who sacrificed their lives along with their two celebrated leaders in their glorious albeit unsuccessful attempt to win freedom from the rule of the zamindars and the British operatives.

Although its impact was largely shadowed by that of the other rebellion, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the legend of the Santal Rebellion lives on as a turning point in Santal pride and identity. This was reaffirmed, over a century and a half later with the creation of the first tribal province in independent India, Jharkhand.

135. Kanailal Bhattacharya (1918-19.12.1983)

Kanailal Bhattacharya was born in Santragachi, Howrah. He passed M.Sc. from Calcutta University in Chemistry and obtained Ph.D. degree from the same university . In his student's career he joined politics. From the very beginning he was cosely connected with Subhas Chandra Basu and took active role in forming Forward Bloc in 1939. When he was in underground in 1942, he was arrested and was confined to jail for 3 years. He became an MLA in 1952 as a candidate of  Forward Bloc. He became a Minister in the Dept. of agriculture of United front Government in 1969 and from 1977 he became a minister in the dept. of Commerce and Industry. To commemorate his memory a statue was constructed in Howrah District.

134. Kanailal Bhattacharya (1909-27.7.1931)

Hundred and hundred heroes died in the freedom struggle of India; but there are few examples where the martyrs died for his country and their names remain hidden for the good of the revolutionary movement. Kanailal Bhattacharya from Mazilpur Bhattacharya Para, is the person who created the rare example of sacrifice. Binay Basu and Badal Gupta were killed but Dinesh Gupta survived in the historic fight at Writer's Building in the time of freedom struggle of India. The oppressor British Rulers let not live him. They hanged him on 7th July, 1931 by unjust law. But the judge of Alipur R. R Galik was shooted by Kanailal of Mazilpur. Thus Kanailal made the judgment of the judge. After killing Galik Sahib he immediately took very poisonous Potassium Cyanide capsule. A small note was found from his pocket that contained a name- Bimal Das Gupta. Bimal Das Gupta who killed the maltreater Pedi Sahib was escaped. Kanailal wrote the name in that note so that the British police would stop chasing him. Kanailal belonged from a very poor family; he joined freedom revolution movement when he was very young. He came in touch of well known revolutionaries like Sunil Chatterjee, Satkari Bandyopadhyay etc. and soon he became a mature fighter of revolution movement. In fond of the memory of this patriot the Alipur Bekar Road had been renamed into Biplabi Kanailal Bhattacharya Road. Not only this but a road in Joynagar-Mazilpur district been named on him also. Except this a bronj statue had been placed at Mazilpur Dutta Bazar near his ancestor's house.

133. Kanailal Dutta (1888-1908)

Kanailal Dutta (Bengali: কানাইলাল দত্ত) (30 August 1888 – 21 November 1908) was a revolutionary in the India's freedom struggle belonging to the Jugantar group. He was born in Chandannagar, West Bengal.

His father, Chunilal Dutta, was an accountant in Bombay.Kanailal's early school life was started in Girgaon Aryan Education Society School, Bombay and later he came back to Chandannagar and took admission in Chandannagar Duplex Vidyamandir.In 1908, he gave the BA exam from Hooghly Mohsin College.

Revolutionary activities

The revolver used by Kanailal Dutta to shoot Narendranth Goswami

During his early college days, Kanailal met with Professor Charu Chandra Roy, who inspired him to join the revolutionary movement during the agitations against the Partition of Bengal. During 1905 movement against partition of Bengal, Kanailal Dutta was in the forefront from Chandannagar group.
In 1908, he moved to Kolkata and joined Kolkata based revolutionary group Jugantar. In connection with the Kingsford assassination attempt, Kanailal was arrested on 2 May 1908 and detained in Alipore Jail. There he and Satyendranath Basu (another detainee) were told to kill Naren Goswami. On 31 August 1908, they carried out their orders and shot him dead inside the jail hospital.

Trial, sentencing and martyrdom

On 21 October 1908, the High Court pronounced its judgment by giving sentence of death to both the accused. Kanailal appeared to be absolutely calm over the event. The sentence was carried on 10 November 1908, in the Alipore Jail at about seven in the morning.
The result of his passing of B.A. exam was held unpublished but after his martyrdom hewas given the degree of passing the B.A. exam. in 1988.

132. Kanailal Munsi (1887-1971)

Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, (December 30, 1887 – February 8, 1971) popularly known as Kulapati Dr. K. M. Munshi, was an Indian independence movement activist, politician, writer and educationist from Gujarat state. A lawyer by profession, he later turned to literature and politics. He was a well known name in Gujarati literature. He founded Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, an educational trust, in 1938.
K. M. Munshi was born on 30 December 1887 in the town of Bharuch in Gujarat, and educated in Vadodara (Baroda), where he excelled in academics. One of his teachers at Baroda College was Sri Aurobindo Ghosh who had a profound impression on him. Munshi was also greatly influenced by Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel, Bhulabhai Desai, and Mohammed Ali Jinnah. After acquiring his degree in Law from the University of Bombay, he enrolled himself as an advocate in 1913, and soon became a member of the Bar. Munshi began practicing at the Bombay High Court. His fame spread as a good and successful lawyer spread and he began getting cases from all over India. About this time his first novel was being serialised in a Gujarati weekly.
During World War I, Munshi was influenced by the Home Rule Movement. In 1912-13, he took part in the activities of the Social Reform Association and championed the cause of widow remarriage. He led by example and married Lilavati Sheth, a widow, in 1926. He also founded the Children's Home for delinquent children at Chembur, Bombay in 1939.
Under Sri Aurobindo's influence, Munshi was attracted to armed rebellion against the British. He even learnt to make bombs, but when he moved to Bombay in 1915, he drifted towards the Home Rule Movement, and was later elected member of the Subjects Committee of the Indian National Congress in 1917. When Sardar Patel was organising the Bardoli Satyagraha, Munshi lent his support, and when Gandhi announced the Salt Satyagraha, he joined the movement along with his wife. He started the movement for a Parliamentary wing of the Congress, and later became Secretary of the Congress Parliamentary Board in 1938. The same year he founded the well-known Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and Institute of Agriculture at Anand, Gujarat.
Munshi was an active participant in the Indian Independence Movement ever since the advent of Mahatma Gandhi. He joined the Swaraj Party but returned to the Indian National Congress on Gandhiji's behest with the launch of the Salt Satyagraha in 1930. He was arrested several times, including during the Quit India Movement of 1942. A great admirer of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Munshi served in the Central Legislative Assembly in the 1930s.
After the independence of India, Munshi was appointed diplomatic envoy and trade agent (Agent-General) to the princely state of Hyderabad, where he served until its accession to India in 1948. Munshi was on the ad hoc Flag Committee that selected the Flag of India in August 1947, and on the committee which drafted the Constitution of India under the chairmanship of B. R. Ambedkar. He and Purushottam Das Tandon were among those who strongly opposed propagation and conversion in the constituent assembly. He was also the main driving force behind the renovation of the historically important Somnath Temple by the Government of India just after independence.
Munshi served as the Governor of Uttar Pradesh from 1952 to 1957. In 1959, Munshi separated from the Nehru-dominated (socialist) Congress Party and started the Akhand Hindustan Movement. He believed in a strong opposition, so along with Chakravarti Rajagopalachari he founded the Swatantra Party, which was right-wing in its politics, pro-business, pro-free market economy and private property rights. The party enjoyed limited success and eventually died out. Later, Munshi joined the Jan Sangh.
Being a prolific writer and a conscientious journalist, Munshi started a Gujarati monthly called Bhargava. He was joint-editor of Young India and in 1954, started the Bhavan's Journal which is published by the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan to this day. Munshi was President of the Sanskrit Viswa Parishad, the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad, and the Hindi Sahitya Sammelan.
Apart from founding Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Munshi was instrumental in the establishment of Bhavan's College, Hansraj Morarji Public School, Rajhans Vidyalaya, Rajhans Balvatika and Panchgani Hindu School (1924). He was elected Fellow of the University of Bombay, where he was responsible for giving adequate representation to regional languages. He was also instrumental in starting the department of Chemical Technology.
Besides being a politician and educator, Munshi was also an environmentalist. He initiated the Vanmahotsav in 1950, when he was Union Minister of Food and Agriculture, to increase area under forest cover. Since then Van Mahotsav a week long festival of tree plantation is organised every year in the month of July all across the country and lakhs of trees are planted.

Works

Munshi was also a litterateur with a wide range of interests. He is well known for his historical novels in Gujarati, especially his trilogy Patan-ni-Prabhuta (The Greatness of Patan), Gujarat-no-Nath (The Ruler of Gujarat) and Rajadhiraj (The Emperor). His other works include Jay Somnath (on Somnath temple), Krishnavatara (on Lord Krishna), Bhagavan Parasurama (on Parshurama), and Tapasvini (The Lure of Power) a novel with a fictional parallel drawn from the Freedom Movement of India under Mahatma Gandhi. Munshi also wrote several notable works in English.
Munshi has written mostly based on fictional historical themes namely

1. Earlier Aryan settlements in India (What he calls Gaurang's - white skinned)
2. Krishna's endeavors in Mahabharata kaal
3. More recently in 10th century India around Gujarat, Malwa and Sourthen India.

K.M. Munshi's novel Prithvi Vallabh was made into a movie of the same name twice. The adaptation directed by Manilal Joshi in 1924 was very controversial in its day: Mahatma Gandhi criticised it for excessive sex and violence. The second version was by Sohrab Modi in 1943.

List of works

Novels

In Gujarati & Hindi languages :-

• Mari Kamala (1912)
• Verni Vasulat (1913) (under the pen name Ghanashyam)
• Patanni Prabhuta (1916)
• Gujaratno Nath (1917)
• Rajadhiraj (1918)
• Prithvivallabh (1920)
• Svapnadishta (1924)
• Lopamudra (1930)
• Jay Somanth (1940)
• Bhagavan Parashurama (1946)
• Tapasvini (1957)
• Krishnavatara (in seven volumes) (1970)
• Kono vank
• Lomaharshini
• Bhagvan Kautilya
• Pratirodha (1900)
• Atta ke svapana (1900)
• Gaurava kā pratīka (1900)
• Gujarat ke Gaurava (1900)
• Sishu aura Sakhi (1961)

Dramas

• Brahmacharyashram (1931)
• Dr. Madhurika (1936)
• Pauranik Natako

Non-fiction

• Ketlak Lekho (1926)
• Adadhe Raste (1943)

Notable works in English

• Gujarat and Its Literature
• Imperial Gujaras
• Bhagavad Gita and Modern Life
• Creative Art of Life
• To Badrinath
• Saga of Indian Sculpture
• The End of An Era
• President under Indian Constitution
• Warnings of History: Trends in Modern India.

131. Kunwar Singh (1778-1858)

• Raja KUNWAR SINGH, Raja of Jagdishpur 1826/1858, born about 1778, succeeded to the gadi in 1826, which comprised two pargranas and several talukas of the Shahabad district. The total annual income of the estate was about rupees six lakhs. But several factors, including family litigations, extravagant living, generosity beyond his means and, above all, the machinations of his own staff with unscrupulous creditors, combined to put the estate under ruinous debts which amounted to rupees twenty lakhs on the eve of the Rising of 1857. He played a prominent part in the events of 1857/1858, he fought in the battle of Kanpur. Subsequently, he arrived in Lucknow, where the King of Oudh awarded him a robe of honour and a farman for the area comprising the Azamgarh district. He decided in April 1858 to return to his home district. Fighting a careful rearguard action, he crossed the Ganges at Sheopur Ghat, and re-entered Jagdishpur on 22 April 1858. He was greviously injured during the retreat and lost his right hand. Four days later, Kunwar Singh died of injuries and exhaustion. A man of generous disposition, Kunwar Singh gave numerous grants to individuals and for the maintenance of shrines, including a Muslim shrine in the Patna City. On the establishment of the Arrah Zilla School in 1846, he not only donated the land for the building but also gave a cash donation of rupees one hundred. He got a Shiva temple and a tank constructed at Jagdishpur. He was an admirer and a patron of men well versed in martial sports, such as riding, shooting, archery etc. He invited such experts to Jagdishpur and retained them for long periods to train his men in those arts. He married the daughter of Raja Fateh Narain Singh of Deo, a wealthy zamindar of Gaya district, and had issue. He also had some concubines, including Dharman Bibi, who accompanied him on his journeys outside Bihar during the Rising of 1857/1858. He died 26th April 1858.

Singh ,Kunwar (1778 - 1858 )

Kunwar Singh belonged to the Parmar branch of Rajputs. Originally belonging to he Ujjain area, they had migrated eastwards in the fourteenth century and settled at different places in Bihar-Dawa, Matila, Bhojpur and Jagdishpur (all in Shahbad district). They were locally known as Ujjainya Rajputs because of the place of their origin. Kunwar Singh belonged to the Jagdishpur branch of the family. He was the eldest son of Sahabzada Singh and was born probably in 1778. Spirited and adventurous by nature, Kunwar Singh was more inclined to strenuous, martial sports and to outdoor life than to education. Kunwar Singh married the daughter of Raja Fatah Narain Singh of Deo, a wealthy zamindar of Gaya district. He had a son named Dalbhajan Singh, who predeceased him. He also had some concubines, including one Dharman Bibi, who accompanied him on his journeys outside Bihar during the Rising of 1857-58. Two mosques built by her at Arrah and Jagdishpur are still extant. Kunwar Singh succeeded to the gaddi (ancestral estate) sometime in 1826. He owned a large, valuable landed estate comprising two pargranas and several talukas of the Shahabad district. The total annual income of the estate was about rupees six lakhs. But several factors, including family litigations, extravagant living, generosity beyond his means and, above all, the machinations of his own staff with unscrupulous creditors, combined to put the estate under ruinous debts which amounted to rupees twenty lakhs on the eve of the Rising of 1857. On the recommendation of some European district officials, with many of whom Kunwar Singh was on friendly terms, the Government made some arrangements in 1854-55 to regulate and ease the financial burden of Kunwar Singh. An Agent was appointed to administer the estate and collect the revenue. After paying the Government’s rent and defraying the collection charges, he was to repay the debts by installments. The arrangement proved helpful to Kunwar Singh, for just a month before the Rising he wrote to the Government that the arrangement might be continued for some time more so that all his debts might be repaid. But the Government sat over the matter, and this was, according to the Divisional Commissioner of Patna, one of the contributory causes of Kunwar Singh’s joining the Rising. The great moment of Kunwar Singh’s life began with the revolt of the Indian Regiment stationed at Dinapur on 25 July 1857. Marching

on to Arrah, where they were joined by Kunwar Singh, they besieged the European district officials and some civilians in the ‘Arrah - and beat back a relieving force sent from Patna under Captain Dunbar. But the besieged garrison was relieved by Major Eyre on 23 August and Kunwar Singh withdrew to Jagdishpur. Subsequently, he marched out of Bihar and made earnest efforts to organize the anit-English forces at some places in the Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. Passing through Mirzapur and Rewa, he arrived at Banda in September with a view to joining Tantia Tope. He was joined by the Gwalior forces at Kalpi, and fought in the battle of Kanpur in December. Subsequently, he arrived in Lucknow, where the King of Oudh awarded him a robe of honour and a farman for the area comprising the Azamgarh district. During the next three months Kunwar Singh fought a number of engagements against the Government forces and occupied Azamgarh for some time. Pressed by the Government forces, he decided in April 1858 to return to his home district. Fighting a careful rearguard action, he crossed the Ganges at Sheopur Ghat, ten miles below Ballia, and re-entered Jagdishpur on 22 April 1858. He was greviously injured during the retreat and lost his right hand. The next day a force under Captian Le Grand proceeded to attack the old, injured veteran, but it was repulsed. Three days later, Kunwar Singh died of injuries and exhaustion. A man of generous disposition, Kunwar Singh gave numerous grants to individuals and for the maintenance of shrines, including a Muslim shrine in the Patna City. On the establishment of the Arrah Zilla School in 1846, he not only donated the land for the building but also gave a cash donation of rupees one hundred. He got a Shiva temple and a tank constructed at Jagdishpur. He was an admirer and a patron of men well versed in martial sports, such as riding, shooting, archery etc. He invited such experts to Jagdishpur and retained them for long periods to train his men in those arts. Paying a tribute to Kunwar Singh, a contemporary English writer described him as a man “who at eighty years old…inflicted on us a defeat complete and tragical; who exacted from the unruly mutineers as obedience which they paid to none other; who led his force in person to Lucknow and took a leading part in the struggle which decided the destines of India,” and expressed relief over the fact that “ it was uncommonly lucky for us that Coer Singh was not forty years younger” (George O. Trevelyan -‘Competition Wallah’, 1866).

Author : K. K. Datta.

130. Kadambini Ganguly (18th July1861 – 3 October 1923).

Kadambini Ganguly (left) born on 18th July was an Asian women to be trained in European Medicine. She was also actively involved in social movement to improve the working conditions for female coal miners. She was one of the six women delegate in the Fifth session of Indian National Congress in 1861. She was among the first woman to graduate in British India from University of Calcutta along with Chandramukhi Basu (right). She also became the first Indian female physician in 1886 from Bengal and was awarded GBMC (Graduate of Bengal Medical College) degree from Calcutta Medical College. The first medical Phsycian was Anandi Gopal Rao Joshi (left). (Anandi Gopal Joshi A (or Anandibai Joshi) (आनंदीबाई जोशी) (Marathi)(March 31, 1865 - February 26, 1887) was the first Indian woman to obtain a medical degree through training in Western medicine. (Kadambini Ganguly earned a medical degree the same year, 1886, after Anandibai.) She was also the first Hindu woman to do so, Anandibai began her medical education at age 19. In America, her declining health worsened because of the cold weather and unfamiliar diet. She contracted tuberculosis. Nevertheless, she graduated with an M.D. on March 11, 1886, the topic of her thesis having been "Obstetrics among the Aryan Hindoos". On her graduation, Queen Victoria sent her a congratulatory message. )


(Dr.). Kadambini Ganguli – Born in 1861 ( alternative opinion1862), Kadambini Bose was the daughter of Babu Brajakisore Bose.The daughter of Brahmo reformer Braja Kishore Basu, she was born at Bhagalpur, Bihar in British India. The family was from Chandsi, in Barisal which is now in Bangladesh. Her father was headmaster of Bhagalpur School. He and Abhay Charan Mallick started the movement for women's emancipation at Bhagalpur, establishing the women's organisation Bhagalpur Mahila Samiti in 1863, the first in India.
Kadambini started her education at Banga Mahila Vidyalaya and while at Bethune School (established by Bethune) in 1878 became the first woman to pass the University of Calcutta entrance examination. It was partly in recognition of her efforts that Bethune College first introduced FA (First Arts), and then graduation courses in 1883. She and Chandramukhi Basu became the first graduates from Bethune College, and in the process became the first female graduates in the country and in the entire British Empire. Along with Chandramukhi Bose, she graduated from Bethune College in 1883 and became one of the two first lady graduates of India. The same year she was married to (Dr.) Dwarakanath Ganguly.

Dwarkanath Ganguly
Born	(1844-04-20)20 April 1844 Magurkhanda, Bikrampur now in Bangladesh
Died	27 June 1898(1898-06-27) (aged 54) Kolkata
Occupation	Social Reformer
Spouse(s)	Kadambini Ganguly

Dwarkanath Ganguly (also spelt as Dwarka Nath Gangopadhyay) (Bengali: দ্বারকানাথ গাঙ্গুলী Darkanath Gangguli) (20 April 1844 - 27 June 1898) was a Brahmo reformer in Bengal of British India. He contributed substantially towards the enlightenment of society and the emancipation of women.)

 Kadambini Ganguly  was encouraged by her husband to study medicine. After much trouble and threat of recourse of legal action, Calcutta Medical College allowed her to be admitted as a medical student. She took a full course of medical education, but in the final examination failed to secure the degree. Undaunted, she decided to complete her education by going to England which she did in 1892. After returning from England, she was attached to Lady Dufferin Hospital for a long time. She was a dedicated and efficient physician

Mrs. Ganguli also exhibited unusual social and political awareness. She participated in the fifth session of the Indian National Congress at Tivoli Gardens, Calcutta, in 1890. She became the President of Transvaal Indian Association which was formed after the imprisonment of Mahatma Gandhi in the Transvaal. She worked untiringly in the interest of the Indians in Transvaal. She also played a prominent role in the Ladies Conference held in 1907. She spoke eloquently in the Medical Conference of 1915 against Calcutta Medical College’s practice of not admitting female candidates in its medical course. As a result of her lecture, Calcutta Medical College revised her policies and the doors of this prestigious institutions were opened for female students. Kadambini Ganguli was an enthusiastic supporter of female suffrage. After her husband’s death in 1898, who was her friend, philosopher and guide, she had largely withdrawn from public life and it had taken a big toll on her health also. Even after that she worked untiringly in the interest of the women. Just one year before her death, she visited Bihar and Orissa with Mrs. K. N. Ray in the interests of women mining laborers there.
She died on 7th October, 1923, within fifteen minutes after returning from her regular medical calls and before any medical aid could be furnished.

Kadambini Ganguli is the epitome of unflinching courage, unfazed determination along with a tender, sensitive heart which nursed the poor and the sick and fought for the injustice directed towards them, In the history of female education of India, the name of Kadambinin Ganguli will remain written in golden letters. Bethune College is proud of such an alumna.

Indian women took big strides towards not only educating themselves but their sisters as well. In 1877, when no British university had granted degrees to women, Kadambini Basu (later Ganguly) and Sarala Das sat for the entrance examination for the University of Calcutta. Kadambini later became the first woman doctor of the British Indian Empire, starting a trend in professional education for women. - See more at: http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2418#sthash.NJQj0mAR.dpuf.

Kadambini Ganguly- (1861 – 3 October 1923). The first female physician of South Asia to be trained in European medicine and daughter of Brahmo reformer Braja Kishore Basu who started the movement for women's emancipation at Bhagalpur, establishing the women's organisation Bhagalpur Mahila Samiti in 1863, the first in India. In 1878, she became the first woman to pass the University of Calcutta entrance examination. In 1886, she was awarded a GBMC (Graduate of Bengal Medical College) degree, which gave her the right to practise. She thus became the first Indian woman doctor qualified to practice Western medicine.

Kadambini went to the United Kingdom in 1892 and returned to India after qualifying as LRCP (Edinburgh), LRCS (Glasgow), and GFPS (Dublin) and was actively involved in female emancipation and social movements to improve work conditions of female coal miners in eastern India. She was one of the six female delegates to the fifth session of the Indian National Congress in 1889, and even organized the Women's Conference in Calcutta in 1906 in the aftermath of the partition of Bengal. A mother of eight children.

Kadambini overcame some opposition from the teaching staff, and orthodox sections of society. She went to the United Kingdom in 1892 and returned to India after qualifying as LRCP (Edinburgh), LRCS (Glasgow), and GFPS (Dublin). After working for a short period in Lady Dufferin Hospital, she started her own private

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In this spring of hope and winter of despair Kadambini Basu, Prafulla Chandra Roy, Nilratan Sarkar and Rabindranath Tagore were born in the prodigal year 1861. Eventually practice of people has compelled time only to remember the birth of the poet keeping aside all the other glories associated with this year.

If we lay aside the issue of posterity Kadambini was placed as an elite and an outcast being a Bramho in her own time. While Chandramukhi Bose, who received her graduation degree along with Kadambini from the same school, was treated differently being a Christion from distant Derahdoon. Social placement and accommodation was not same for Kadambini and Chandramukhi. Belonging to Christian community of colonial India made certain things easier for Chandramukhi.

Even after being awarded her graduation degree Kadambini was supposed to put an end to her journey towards erudition. But to the unprecedented awe of her surrounding she preferred to study medical science unlike her fellow scholar Chandramukhi who had chosen humanities at her post graduation level. Her decision was as bitter as Cinchona for Bhadraloks around her, even her Bramho ambience found no appropriate expression to react. But her associates had hardly noticed that a love story of unfamiliar plot was to follow. Abalabandhab Dwarakanath Ganguly had did something more than merely serving as a dedicated teacher of Kadambini at Banga Mahila Vidyalaya and Kadambini reciprocated her teacher’s appeal appropriately accepting the man in him who was twenty years older at the time of their engagement. They loved each other.Dwarakanath had found the future of the era in Kadambini and his admiration towards her drove him to stand alone against everything ‘acceptable’. He was the architect of the decision to enroll his wife as a regular student. Reaction was evident and took its effect immediately. No one from the Bramho community dared to accept the invitation of their wedding feast and finally Dwarakanath and Kadambini got married in an open but unknown island right there in Calcutta.

Dwarakanath’s confrontation with the authorities of Calcutta Medical College led to an amendment of University’s constitution.

Qualifying as a graduate underlined her social coordinate more towards an unprecedented otherness; it was no wonder that Maheschandra Pal, the editor of the popular periodical Bangabasi, called her a courtesan. But unlike other educated women suffering from seclusion Kadambini had her own Knight Dwarakanath Gangopadhyay, the famous enlightenment activist whom she got as her teacher and as her beloved husband in immediate future.

He appeared like a vanguard before the editor and made him swallow the piece of paper where that comment was printed. When a pioneer reformer like Keshab Chandra Sen was negotiating marriage of his underage daughter, Dwarakanath was incessantly campaigning to accommodate and enroll female students in Calcutta Medical College 

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Jayanti Ganguli (Barman): Youngest daughter of Kadambini Ganguli, she was married to L. M. Barman, private secretary of Pramethesh Barua. She acted as the private tutor of Pramathesh Barua. She was a student of both Bethune Collegiate School and Bethune College. She lived in Moradabad for 4 years and used to teach conservative Muslims girls and established a school for them from Class VI to Class VII which was later elevated to Middle School and then to College.

Jyotirmoyee Ganguli: Teacher, social and political worker, second daughter of Kadambini Ganguli, principal of several women’s college in India. This includes one College in Sri Lanka took. She was also the first woman-councilor of the Corporation of Calcutta.