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	'''Purnima Banerjee''' (née '''Ganguly''', 1911-1951<ref>{{Cite book \| author = Jayaprakash Narayan \| editor = Bimal Prasad \| title = Selected Works \| volume = 4 \| page = 135 \| publisher = Manohar \| year = 2003 \| isbn = 9788173043536 }}</ref>) was an ~~[[India]]n~~ [[Indian independence movement\|freedom fighter]] and a part of the constituent assembly from 1946–1950.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news\|url=https://15fortherepublic.wordpress.com/2016/04/01/purnima-banerji-1911-1951/\|title=Purnima Banerji (1911 – 1951)\|date=2016-04-01\|work=Women Architects of the Indian Republic\|access-date=2018-04-26\|language=en-US}}</ref>		'''Purnima Banerjee''' (née '''Ganguly''', 1911-1951<ref>{{Cite book \| author = Jayaprakash Narayan \| editor = Bimal Prasad \| title = Selected Works \| volume = 4 \| page = 135 \| publisher = Manohar \| year = 2003 \| isbn = 9788173043536 }}</ref>) was an Indian [[Indian independence movement\|freedom fighter]] and a part of the constituent assembly from 1946–1950.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news\|url=https://15fortherepublic.wordpress.com/2016/04/01/purnima-banerji-1911-1951/\|title=Purnima Banerji (1911 – 1951)\|date=2016-04-01\|work=Women Architects of the Indian Republic\|access-date=2018-04-26\|language=en-US}}</ref>

	== Early life and career ==		== Early life and career ==

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	'''Purnima Banerjee''' (née '''Ganguly''', 1911-1951<ref>{{Cite book \| author = Jayaprakash Narayan \| editor = Bimal Prasad \| title = Selected Works \| volume = ~~Vol.~~ 4 \| page = 135 \| publisher = Manohar \| year = 2003 \| isbn = 9788173043536 }}</ref>) was an [[India]]n [[Indian independence movement\|freedom fighter]] and a part of the constituent assembly from 1946–1950.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news\|url=https://15fortherepublic.wordpress.com/2016/04/01/purnima-banerji-1911-1951/\|title=Purnima Banerji (1911 – 1951)\|date=2016-04-01\|work=Women Architects of the Indian Republic\|access-date=2018-04-26\|language=en-US}}</ref>		'''Purnima Banerjee''' (née '''Ganguly''', 1911-1951<ref>{{Cite book \| author = Jayaprakash Narayan \| editor = Bimal Prasad \| title = Selected Works \| volume = 4 \| page = 135 \| publisher = Manohar \| year = 2003 \| isbn = 9788173043536 }}</ref>) was an [[India]]n [[Indian independence movement\|freedom fighter]] and a part of the constituent assembly from 1946–1950.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news\|url=https://15fortherepublic.wordpress.com/2016/04/01/purnima-banerji-1911-1951/\|title=Purnima Banerji (1911 – 1951)\|date=2016-04-01\|work=Women Architects of the Indian Republic\|access-date=2018-04-26\|language=en-US}}</ref>

	== Early life and career ==		== Early life and career ==

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	\| death_place = [[Nainital]], India		\| death_place = [[Nainital]], India

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'''Purnima Banerjee''' (née '''Ganguly''', 1911-1951<ref>{{Cite book | author = Jayaprakash Narayan | editor = Bimal Prasad | title = Selected Works | volume = Vol. 4 | page = 135 | publisher = Manohar | year = 2003 | isbn = 9788173043536 }}</ref>) was an [[India]]n [[Indian independence movement|freedom fighter]] and a part of the constituent assembly from 1946–1950.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://15fortherepublic.wordpress.com/2016/04/01/purnima-banerji-1911-1951/|title=Purnima Banerji (1911 – 1951)|date=2016-04-01|work=Women Architects of the Indian Republic|access-date=2018-04-26|language=en-US}}</ref>

== Early life and career ==
She was the younger sister of famous freedom fighter, educator and activist [[Aruna Asaf Ali]].<ref>{{Cite book | editor = Sonia Gandhi | title = Two Alone, Two Together | page = xxvi | publisher = Penguin | year = 2005 }}</ref> Their father Upendranath Ganguly was a restaurant owner who hailed from [[Barisal district]] of Eastern [[Bengal]] (now [[Bangladesh]]) but settled in [[United Provinces of British India|United Provinces]].<ref>{{Cite book | author = G. N. S. Raghavan | title = Aruna Asaf Ali: A Compassionate Radical | publisher = National Book Trust | year = 1999 | isbn = 9788123727622 }}</ref> Her mother Ambalika Devi was the daughter of renowned Brahmo scholar [[Trailokyanath Sanyal]] who wrote many [[Brahmo hymns]].<ref>{{Cite book | author = G. N. S. Raghavan | title = Aruna Asaf Ali: A Compassionate Radical | publisher = National Book Trust | year = 1999 | isbn = 9788123727622 }}</ref> Upendranath Ganguly's younger brother [[Dhirendranath Ganguly]] (DG) was one of the earliest film directors.<ref>{{Cite book | author = G. N. S. Raghavan | title = Aruna Asaf Ali: A Compassionate Radical | publisher = National Book Trust | year = 1999 | isbn = 9788123727622 }}</ref> Another brother, Nagendranath, was a university professor who married [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize winner]] [[Rabindranath Tagore]]'s only surviving daughter Mira Devi.<ref>{{Cite book | editor = Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson | title = Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 1997 | isbn = 0521-59018-3 }}</ref> As secretary of the [[Indian National Congress]] committee in [[Allahabad]], she was responsible for engaging and organizing trade unions, ''kisan'' meetings and work towards greater rural engagement. She took part in the [[Salt March]] and the [[Quit India Movement]] and was subsequently imprisoned.<ref>{{Cite book | author = R. S. Tripathi, R. P. Tiwari | title = Perspectives on Indian Women | page = 142 | publisher = APH Publishing | year = 1999 | isbn = 81-7648-025-8 }}</ref> Later, she became a member of the [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]] and of the [[Constituent Assembly of India]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Bhula |first=Pooja |date=24 January 2014 |title=15 women involved in shaping the Indian Constitution |url=http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-online-exclusive-15-women-involved-in-shaping-the-indian-constitution-1956415 |newspaper=Daily News and Analysis |access-date=22 August 2015 }}</ref>

== Death ==
Suffering from ill-health, she died prematurely in [[Nainital]] in 1951, a few years after the independence.<ref>{{Cite book | author = Jawaharlal Nehru | editor = Sarvepalli Gopal | title = Selected Works | chapter = Letter to Vijaylakshmi Pandit dated 2 June 1951 | publisher = Navrang | year = 1994 | isbn = 9780195634785 }}</ref>

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[[Category:Bengali politicians]]
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