Bina Das
She was one of the most daring women revolutionaries of Bengal, she was associated with the revolutionary jugantar party. On 6 February 1932 , when the governor of Bengal, sir Stanley Jackson, was delivering his convocation address at the university of Calcutta, she fired him with a pistol, but narrowly missed. She wasa arrested and sentenced to prison for 9 years.
Originally written on
August 14, 2011
and last modified on
November 22, 2013.