11 March 1907 saw the birth of the Indian liberation warrior Smt. Kamala Dasgupta. Kamala Dasgupta was born in 1907 to a Vaidya family from Bikrampur in Dhaka, Undivided India. The family then relocated to Calcutta, where Kamala Dasgupta attended the Bethune College of Calcutta University and earned a degree in the Master of Arts in History.
Kamala Dasgupta encountered nationalist ideologies among the young people in Calcutta where she attended university, and she became intensely motivated to take part in the liberation movement of the country. Her parents forbade her from quitting school and enrolling at the Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's Sabarmati Ashram. After completing her studies, she made friends with few revolutionaries of the Jugantar party and soon abandoned her initial Gandhism in favour of the cult of armed resistance.
In 1930, Kamala Dasgupta left home and took a job as manager of a hostel for poor women. There she stored and couriered bombs and bomb-making materials for the revolutionaries. She was arrested several times in connection with bombings but was released every time for want of evidence. She supplied Bina Das with the revolver that she used to try to shoot Governor Stanley Jackson in February 1922, and was arrested on that occasion, but released again. In 1933, the British finally succeeded in putting her behind the bars. Thereafter, in 1936, she was released and placed under house arrest.
For more on Bina Das, read: https://amritmahotsav.nic.in/district-reopsitory-detail.htm?2416
In 1938, Kamala got active in humanitarian work, particularly with the Burmese refugees in 1942 and 1943, and the riot victims of 1946–1947. She oversaw the Noakhali relief camp that Gandhiji visited in 1946.
At the Congress of Mahila Shilpa Kendra and the Dakshineshwar Nari Swabalambi Sadan, Kamala Dasgupta advocated for women's vocational training. She spent several years editing the Mandira women's periodical. She wrote two memoirs in Bengali: ‘Swadhinata Sangrame Nari’ (Women in the Freedom Struggle, 1963) and ‘Rakter Akshare’ (In Letters of Blood, 1954).
Kamala Dasgupta died on 19 July 2000 in Kolkata