![]() Her father Harendra Nath, Gupta, a famous artist, was employed with a renowned British furniture making company. She was born on 8 th January 1909 in a traditional Bengali Baidya ( traditional ethnic physicians) in north Calcutta. By her grit and sheer determination, the spirited woman surmounted her obstacles to emerge as an ardent feminist and champion of women’s liberation. As a matter of fact, books were her doors and windows to the vast world that lay outside, often beckoning to her silently. So the young girl lived a cloistered life, devoting herself to reading. Her paternal grandmother did not permit her (and her sisters) to attend school since it would involve stepping out into the ‘big bad world’. ![]() She hailed from an ultra-orthodox family of north Kolkata. One Indian woman is profiled each day for the whole of March 2019. This article is a part of the #IndianWomenInHistory campaign for Women’s History Month to remember the untold legacies of women who shaped India, especially India’s various feminist movements.
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