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After 80 years, revolutionaries get graduation
degrees
Thursday March 22, 2012 09:49:51 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata: Two women
revolutionaries in India's freedom struggle, Bina Das and
Pritilata Waddedar, were posthumously awarded their BA degrees by
Calcutta University Thursday.
The recognition came 80 years after their heroic acts against the
British Raj in Kolkata and Chittagong respectively. The British
government had withheld their degrees as a punishment.
None of the family members was present to accept the degrees.
West Bengal Governor and University Chancellor M.K. Narayanan
himself received the degrees on their behalf. The degrees will be
preserved in the university.
Pritilata, who did her graduation in philosophy from Bethune
College in the 1930s, joined Surya Sen's resistance movement and
led a daring attack on the Pahartali European Club in Chittagong.
She later committed suicide to evade captivity.
Bina had attempted to kill then Bengal Governor Stanley Jackson at
the convocation hall of Calcutta University when she was about to
receive her degree from him. But she failed and jailed for nine
years.
A few months back, the Chittagong Parishad informed Calcutta
University that the two women were yet to get their degrees
although both had passed the exams in flying colours.
Narayanan then asked the authorities to prepare the certificates
of the two freedom fighters.
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