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Nationality
  
British India

Died
  
January 1925, Kolkata

Religion
  
Hinduism

Spouse
  
Gurusaday Dutt (m. 1905)

Children
  
Birendrasaday Dutt

Parents
  
Brajendranath De

Name
  
Saroj Dutt


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Born
  
9 October 1887 (
1887-10-09
)
Bandel, Hooghly, Bengal Presidency, British India

Occupation
  
Social Worker, Feminist

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Saroj Nalini Dutt (nee De), MBE, (9 October 1887 – 19 January 1925) was an Indian feminist and social reformer.

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Background

She was born in her father, Brajendranath De’s, country house in Bandel, near Hooghly, in Bengal Province. She was brought up with her brothers and sisters and shared with them an education under a tutor and a governess. Members of her paternal family frequently visited the Brahmo Sammilan Samaj in Bhowanipore, Calcutta.

In 1905, she married Gurusaday Dutt. In 1909, her only child Birendrasaday was born.

Work

She was a reformer and a pioneer of the movement for the uplifting of women in Bengal. She pioneered the formation of Mahila Samitis (women's institutes) in Bengal. She started her first Mahila Samiti in 1913 in Pabna district with the object of developing friendly cooperation among the purdahnashin ladies. Subsequently, she started the Mahila Samitis of Birbhum (1916), Sultanpur (1917), and Rampurhat (1918) districts respectively.

She was the secretary of the Indian Section of the Calcutta League of Women’s Workers (later Bengal Presidency Council of Women), member of the Council of the Nari Siksha Samiti (Women’s Educational League), and Member of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation’s committee which was to make suitable arrangements for allowing women to elect councillors. She was also the vice president of the Sylhet Union, an association set up for the promotion of female education in Sylhet district.

Awards

  • Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1918.
  • Death

    She died suddenly of very high fever on 19 January, 1925.

    Legacy

    Institutions named after her:

  • The Saroj Nalini Dutt Memorial Association (1925).
  • A girls high school in Suri, earlier named after its founder, Sir Rivers Thompson, which she helped to reorganise, is now named after her.
  • References

    Saroj Nalini Dutt Wikipedia