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HCS (Haryana)Prelims2021General Studies
Question
Who assassinated Stevens, the District Magistrate of Tippera (Tripura) in 1931?
Options
- A Kalpana Datta and Suhasini Ganguly
- B Pritilata Waddedar and Kalpana Datta
- C Santi and Suniti Chaudhury
- D Bina Das and Basanti Devi
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C Santi and Suniti Chaudhury
Model Answer
- Santi Ghosh and Suniti Chandheri, schoolgirls of Comilla, shot dead the district magistrate of Tippera (Tripura), Stevens. (December 1931).
- There was large-scale participation of young women, especially under Surya Sen.
- These women provided shelter, carried messages and fought with guns in hand.
- Bina Das fired point-blank at the Governor while receiving her degree at the convocation (February 1932).
- Prominent women revolutionaries in Bengal during this phase included
- Pritilata Waddedar, who died conducting a raid.
- Kalpana Dutt was arrested and tried along with Surya Sen and given a life sentence.