Pritilata Waddedar was an Indian revolutionary nationalist from the Indian subcontinent who was influential in the Indian independence movement.
16 Facts About Pritilata Waddedar
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Pritilata Waddedar graduated in philosophy with distinction and became a school teacher.
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Pritilata Waddedar is known for leading fifteen revolutionaries in the 1932 armed attack on the Pahartali European Club, during which one person was killed and eleven injured.
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Pritilata Waddedar had a suicide note or a letter with her, where she had penned down the objectives of the Indian Republican Army, Chittagong Branch.
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Ramkrishna Biswas was waiting his execution by hanging by the British and Pritilata used to meet him in the alias of his cousin sister.
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Pritilata Waddedar was born in a middle-class Vaidya Brahmin family on 5 May 1911 in Dhalghat village in Patiya upazila of Chittagong.
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Pritilata Waddedar was a title conferred to an ancestor of the family who originally had the surname Dasgupta.
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Pritilata Waddedar's father Jagabandhu Waddedar was a clerk in the Chittagong Municipality.
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Pritilata Waddedar got Pritilata admitted in Dr Khastagir Government Girls' School of Chittagong.
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Pritilata Waddedar passed out of Dr Khastagir Government Girls' School in 1928 and in 1929, got admitted to the Eden College, Dhaka.
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Pritilata Waddedar joined the group Sree Sangha, headed by Leela Nag, under the banner Deepali Sangha.
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On 13 June 1932, Pritilata Waddedar met Surjo Sen and Nirmal Sen in their Dhalghat camp.
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Since at that time Pritilata Waddedar was staying in Kolkata, she was asked to go to Alipore Jail and meet Ramkrishna Biswas.
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Pritilata Waddedar went to Kotowali Sea Side for arms training and made the plan of their attack there.
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Pritilata Waddedar's birthday is celebrated by the trust in different places of Bangladesh and India every year.
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In 2012, a bronze sculpture of Pritilata Waddedar was erected in front of the Pahartali Railway School, adjacent to the historical European Club.