Kolkata: Two women revolutionaries in India's freedom struggle, Bina Das and Pritilata Waddedar, were posthumously awarded their BA degrees by Calcutta University on Thursday.
The recognition came 80 years after their heroic acts against the British Raj in Kolkata and Chittagong respectively. The British government had withheld their degrees as a punishment.
None of the family members was present to accept the degrees.
West Bengal Governor and University Chancellor M.K. Narayanan himself received the degrees on their behalf. The degrees will be preserved in the university.
Pritilata, who did her graduation in philosophy from Bethune College in the 1930s, joined Surya Sen's resistance movement and led a daring attack on the Pahartali European Club in Chittagong. She later committed suicide to evade captivity.
Bina had attempted to kill then Bengal Governor Stanley Jackson at the convocation hall of Calcutta University when she was about to receive her degree from him. But she failed and jailed for nine years.
A few months back, the Chittagong Parishad informed Calcutta University that the two women were yet to get their degrees although both had passed the exams in flying colours.
Narayanan then asked the authorities to prepare the certificates of the two freedom fighters.
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