Education
University of Calcutta. Bethune College.
University of Calcutta. Bethune College.
One of the primary goals of the organisation was to promote female education, which at that time was not well developed. The organisation opened several offices in Lahore (then part of undivided India), Allahabad, Delhi, Karachi, Amritsar, Hyderabad, Kanpur, Bankura, Hazaribagh, Midnapur and Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) to improve the situation of women all over India. Sarala Devi was born in Kolkata in 1872 to a well known Bengali intellectual family.
Her father Janakinath Ghosal was one of the earliest secretaries of the Bengal Congress.
Her mother Swarnakumari Devi was the first successful woman novelist of Bengali literature. In 1886, she passed her University Entrance examination.
In 1890, She passed her Bachelor of Arts examination in English literature from Calcutta University and received the Padmavati Gold Meda She was also one of the few women graduates of her time, and probably the first woman political leader from Bengal in the Indian independence movement.
Personal life
Their son Dipak Dutt married Radha, grand daughter of Mahatma Gandhi.
Relationship with Mohandas K. Gandhi
Gifted, well-informed, dynamic and driven, Saraladevi was 29 when Gandhi first saw her, in 1901, conducting an orchestra as it played a song she had written for the Congress Party. By his own admission, Gandhi had developed a soft corner for and was specially enamoured by Sarala Devi.