Bina Das: A Memoir

Translated from the Bengali by Dhira Dhar

Zubaan

128 pages, Rs 350

Bina Das was—like Bhagat Singh and Rajguru—one of the many revolutionaries who took up arms against the British establishment. In this short memoir, she recounts her childhood, her involvement in the shooting of the British Governor of Bengal, Stanley Jackson, in 1932, her subsequent incarceration, and her growing involvement in politics. Bina Das eventually disappeared from public life and is rumoured to have passed away in Rishikesh in early 1997.