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'''Saroj Nalini Dutt''' (''née'' | '''Saroj Nalini Dutt''' (''née'' '''Dey''' ('''দেব সরকার''')) ({{lang-bn|'''সরোজ নলিনী দত্ত'''}}) '''MBE''', (9 October 1887 – 19 January 1925) ({{lang-bn|২৩ আশ্বিন, ১২৯৪ - ৬ মাঘ, ১৩৩১}}) was an Indian social reformer and feminist.<ref name="womeninmodernindia">Geraldine Forbes, 'Women in Modern India', 'The New Cambridge History of India', Volume: IV.2, ,Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp.28-29</ref><ref name="sarojnalinidutt"> Jayati Gupta, 'Travel Culture, Travel Writing and Bengali Women, 1870-1940', 1st edition, (Routledge, India, 2020), chapter: Saroj Nalini Dutt (1887-1925)</ref> | ||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
She was born in [[Bandel]], Hooghly in [[Bengal]] to [[Brajendranath De]] and Nagendranandini | She was born in [[Bandel]], Hooghly in [[Bengal]] to [[Brajendranath De|Brajendranath Dey]] and Nagendranandini Dey. Home-schooled by her parents, she married [[Gurusaday Dutt]] in 1905.<ref name="womeninmodernindia"></ref> Her son, Birendrasaday Dutt (বীরেন্দ্রসদয় দত্ত), was born in 1909.<ref name="awomanofindia">Gurusaday Dutt, 'A Woman of India: Being the Life of Saroj Nalini (Founder of Women's Institute Movement in India' (with a foreword by Rabindranath Tagore), (Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1941)</ref><ref "সরোজনলিনী">রাজীব কুন্ডু, 'সরোজ নলিনী: সংখিপ্ত জীবনি', (অবভাস, কলকাতা, ২০১৪) (Rajib Kundu, Saroj Nalini: Shankhipta Jibani, Ababhash, Kolkata, 2014)</ref> | ||
==Social work== | ==Social work== | ||
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Saroj Nalini Dutt (née Dey (দেব সরকার)) (Bengali: সরোজ নলিনী দত্ত) MBE, (9 October 1887 – 19 January 1925) (Bengali: ২৩ আশ্বিন, ১২৯৪ - ৬ মাঘ, ১৩৩১) was an Indian social reformer and feminist.[1][2]
Saroj Nalini Dutt | |
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| Born | 9 October 1887 |
| Died | 19 January 1925 (aged 37) |
| Spouse(s) | Gurusaday Dutt (Bengali: গুরুসদয় দত্ত) |
| Children | 1 |
BackgroundEdit
She was born in Bandel, Hooghly in Bengal to Brajendranath Dey and Nagendranandini Dey. Home-schooled by her parents, she married Gurusaday Dutt in 1905.[1] Her son, Birendrasaday Dutt (বীরেন্দ্রসদয় দত্ত), was born in 1909.[3][4]
Social workEdit
She was a social reformer and a pioneer of the movement for the uplifting of women in Bengal.[5] She pioneered the formation of Mahila Samitis (মহিলা সমিতি) (Women's Institute) in Bengal. She started the first Mahila Samiti in 1913 in Pabna (পাবনা) district with the object of developing friendly cooperation there among the purdahnashin ladies. Subsequently, she started Mahila Samitis in Birbhum (বীরভূম) (1916), Sultanpur (সুলতানপুর) (1917), and Rampurhat (রামপুরহাট) (1918) districts respectively.[6]
She was the secretary of the Indian Section of the Calcutta League of Women’s Workers (later Bengal Presidency Council of Women), member of the Council of the Nari Siksha Samity (নারী শিক্ষা সমিতি)(Women’s Educational League), and Member of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation’s committee which was to make suitable arrangements for allowing women to elect councillors. She was also the vice president of the Sylhet Union, an association set up for the promotion of female education in Sylhet district.[7]
AwardsEdit
- Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE), 1918.
LegacyEdit
An association for the upliftment of helpless and needy women, founded in 1925,[8] and a primary teachers training institute, both set up in Calcutta, are named after her.[9]
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Geraldine Forbes, 'Women in Modern India', 'The New Cambridge History of India', Volume: IV.2, ,Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp.28-29
- ↑ Jayati Gupta, 'Travel Culture, Travel Writing and Bengali Women, 1870-1940', 1st edition, (Routledge, India, 2020), chapter: Saroj Nalini Dutt (1887-1925)
- ↑ Gurusaday Dutt, 'A Woman of India: Being the Life of Saroj Nalini (Founder of Women's Institute Movement in India' (with a foreword by Rabindranath Tagore), (Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1941)
- ↑ রাজীব কুন্ডু, 'সরোজ নলিনী: সংখিপ্ত জীবনি', (অবভাস, কলকাতা, ২০১৪) (Rajib Kundu, Saroj Nalini: Shankhipta Jibani, Ababhash, Kolkata, 2014)
- ↑ 'সরোজনলিনী দত্ত', in সুবোধ চন্দ্র সেনগুপ্ত এবং অঞ্জলি বসু, 'সংসদ বাঙালি চরিত্রবিধান', ১, (কলকাতা, শিশু সাহিত্য সংসদ, ২০০২), পৃ: ৫৬৫, ISBN=৮১-৮৫৬২৬-৬৫-০, ('Saroj Nalini Dutta' in Subodhchandra Sengupta and Anjali Basu, 'Samsad Bangali Charitrabidhan', Vol. 1, (Kolkata, Shishu Sahitya Samsad, 2002), p. 565, (Bibliographical Dictionary) ISBN=81-85626-65-0
- ↑ 'Women's Association of Bengal and it's Interaction with Other Sister Associations of India, Institutional Repository, North Bengal University, p. 245
- ↑ Saroj Nalini Dutt Memorial Association
- ↑ Saroj Nalini Primary Teachers Training Institute, Calcutta