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A Love of Bengal, Pratima Das Gupta: A Biography: A Woman's Journey Through the Courts, Civil Society and Public Life in Bengal and India

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This biography traces the extraordinary life of a prominent Bengali woman lawyer and social activist, Pratima Das Gupta (1924-2006), on her birth centenary. She, with her friends, shaped modern India and Bengal in the tumultuous post-Independence and post-Partition times. They were the ‘greatest generation’. Too young to have participated directly in the freedom movement, they were deeply inspired by its ideals, and built the country's institutional foundations after Independence.

A long yet fast-paced biography, the book is filled with stories about her life and those of her friends. The book also captures many key moments in the history of India and Bengal that influenced her life, and, in turn, her influence in no small measure on those events.

Pratima practiced constitutional and corporate law in the High Court of Calcutta on its Original Side. As one of India’s early female lawyers, she fought landmark legal battles in a male-dominated field, and corporate battles for her clients in one of India's largest business houses, the then biggest ex-British-owned managing agency house in India, while also protecting the rights of ordinary citizens and civil society as a pioneer in Art. 226 cases.

Yet, her impact went far beyond the Courts. As Pratima liked to say, "I happened to be a lawyer, and law is after all, social work." She was deeply involved with civic rights issues, such as the refugee resettlement movement after millions were displaced by the Partition of Bengal, sometimes speaking to million-strong gatherings at the Maidan. She was also a young member of the influential Citizen's Defence Committee during the 1962 war. She took up family law cases on behalf of women and children and ordinary people in the Courts throughout her life, defending their rights.

Pratima was a civil society organizational genius. She and her friends established an all-women’s grassroots community theatre group, Balaka, that ran for 35 years to much acclaim in theatre-crazy Bengal. She pioneered and mentored the extraordinary rise of women’s cricket, mountaineering in the high Himalayas by young women climbers, and sports. Women's cricket rose to unexpected global heights at the Test Matches and nationals held at Eden Gardens in the 1970s, despite the deep political crises, violence, and difficult times in Bengal and India in the 1970s.

Her legacy extended beyond the borders. She was India’s delegate to the 33rd Board Meeting of the United Nations Business and Professional Women’s Organisation in Munich in 1973 to celebrate global women’s rights. Late in life, as a matriarch of a global Indian family, she turned to reconnecting them back to their roots and homeland---much as she herself had done early in her life. She protected the younger generations and kept doing public work, including protecting the educational work and library of her mentor, Dr. Roma Chaudhuri.

Although born in North Calcutta, she grew up in the sheltered and secluded hills of Simla and New Delhi as the eldest daughter of a prominent civil servant during the last decades of the British Raj. It was a quiet, bookish, and very sheltered life, although the winds of change she knew were coming. She once met Mahatma Gandhi when very young and followed closely the political events in India and Bengal.

As the freedom movement and Independence came roaring, interrupted by WWII that hastened change, and inspired by her role models, she had choices to make. She decided to plunge back to contribute to post-Partition Bengal. She attended Ashutosh College, Law College, married a Bengali freedom-fighter, and turned to a life of law, public service, and protection of the community,

"Tarpore ki holo?” Read the twists and turns in a fast-paced biography---a wonderful journey full of hope and about the future as well.
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Description:

This biography traces the extraordinary life of a prominent Bengali woman lawyer and social activist, Pratima Das Gupta (1924-2006), on her birth centenary. She, with her friends, shaped modern India and Bengal in the tumultuous post-Independence and post-Partition times. They were the ‘greatest generation’. Too young to have participated directly in the freedom movement, they were deeply inspired by its ideals, and built the country's institutional foundations after Independence.

A long yet fast-paced biography, the book is filled with stories about her life and those of her friends. The book also captures many key moments in the history of India and Bengal that influenced her life, and, in turn, her influence in no small measure on those events.

Pratima practiced constitutional and corporate law in the High Court of Calcutta on its Original Side. As one of India’s early female lawyers, she fought landmark legal battles in a male-dominated field, and corporate battles for her clients in one of India's largest business houses, the then biggest ex-British-owned managing agency house in India, while also protecting the rights of ordinary citizens and civil society as a pioneer in Art. 226 cases.

Yet, her impact went far beyond the Courts. As Pratima liked to say, "I happened to be a lawyer, and law is after all, social work." She was deeply involved with civic rights issues, such as the refugee resettlement movement after millions were displaced by the Partition of Bengal, sometimes speaking to million-strong gatherings at the Maidan. She was also a young member of the influential Citizen's Defence Committee during the 1962 war. She took up family law cases on behalf of women and children and ordinary people in the Courts throughout her life, defending their rights.

Pratima was a civil society organizational genius. She and her friends established an all-women’s grassroots community theatre group, Balaka, that ran for 35 years to much acclaim in theatre-crazy Bengal. She pioneered and mentored the extraordinary rise of women’s cricket, mountaineering in the high Himalayas by young women climbers, and sports. Women's cricket rose to unexpected global heights at the Test Matches and nationals held at Eden Gardens in the 1970s, despite the deep political crises, violence, and difficult times in Bengal and India in the 1970s.

Her legacy extended beyond the borders. She was India’s delegate to the 33rd Board Meeting of the United Nations Business and Professional Women’s Organisation in Munich in 1973 to celebrate global women’s rights. Late in life, as a matriarch of a global Indian family, she turned to reconnecting them back to their roots and homeland---much as she herself had done early in her life. She protected the younger generations and kept doing public work, including protecting the educational work and library of her mentor, Dr. Roma Chaudhuri.

Although born in North Calcutta, she grew up in the sheltered and secluded hills of Simla and New Delhi as the eldest daughter of a prominent civil servant during the last decades of the British Raj. It was a quiet, bookish, and very sheltered life, although the winds of change she knew were coming. She once met Mahatma Gandhi when very young and followed closely the political events in India and Bengal.

As the freedom movement and Independence came roaring, interrupted by WWII that hastened change, and inspired by her role models, she had choices to make. She decided to plunge back to contribute to post-Partition Bengal. She attended Ashutosh College, Law College, married a Bengali freedom-fighter, and turned to a life of law, public service, and protection of the community,

"Tarpore ki holo?” Read the twists and turns in a fast-paced biography---a wonderful journey full of hope and about the future as well.
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