Prabhabati Bose

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Prabhabati Bose
Subhash Chandra Bose, Sarat Chandra Bose
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Prabhabati Bose (

Calcutta
), India. She was her parents' eldest daughter.

In 1880, at the age of 11, she was married off to

Sonarpur).[citation needed
]

Marriage and children

Prabhabati and Janakinath Bose had fourteen children together. She was very involved in their education and many members of the extended Bose family made significant contributions to Indian society.[3] Not only was Prabhabati the matriarch of Bose family, but following her parents' deaths she and her husband took care of her younger siblings.

She gave birth to fourteen children, six daughters and eight sons, among whom were nationalist leader Sarat Chandra Bose, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and distinguished cardiologist Dr. Sunil Chandra Bose.

Political activism

In 1928, Prabhabati was selected president of the Mahila Rashtriya Sangha.[1]

References

  1. ^ . Retrieved 5 January 2015.
  2. ^ An Indian Pilgrim: An Unfinished Autobiography And Collected Letters 1897-1921, Subhas Chandra Bose, Asia Publishing House, London, 1965, p. 1
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