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{{short description|Indian educationalist}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Abala Bose
| image = Lady Abala Bose.jpg
| image_size = 225px
| caption =
| birth_date = 8 August 1865
| birth_place = [[Barisal]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]] (now in Bangladesh)
| death_date = {{death date and age|1951|04|25|1864|04|08|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Kolkata]], [[India]]
| occupation = [[Social work]]er
| spouse = [[Jagadish Chandra Bose|Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose]]
}}

'''Abala, Lady Bose''' (8 August 1865 – 25 April 1951) was an Indian social worker. She was known for her efforts in women's education and her contribution towards helping widows.<ref name = "Bose23">Sengupta, Subodh Chandra and Bose, Anjali (editors), 1976/1998, ''Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan'' (Biographical dictionary) Vol I, {{in lang|bn}}, p23, {{ISBN|81-85626-65-0}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Bose was the daughter of [[Brahmo]] reformer [[Durga Mohan Das]], sister of [[Satish Ranjan Das]] and [[Sarala Roy]], and cousin of [[Chittaranjan Das]] and Chief Justice of India [[Sudhi Ranjan Das]]. She was born in [[Barisal]] on 8 August 1865. She belonged to the Das family of Telirbagh, [[Dhaka]], now in [[Bangladesh]]. She married scientist [[Jagadish Chandra Bose|Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose]] in 1887.<ref name = "Bose23"/>

She was among the early students of [[Banga Mahila Vidyalaya]] and the [[Bethune College|Bethune School]] (established by [[John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune|Bethune]]), gaining entrance with a scholarship in 1881. As a woman, she could not secure admission to [[Medical College Kolkata|Calcutta Medical College.]] She went instead to [[Chennai|Madras]] (now Chennai) in 1882 on a Bengal government scholarship to study medicine. She appeared in the final examination, but had to return because of ill health before the result was declared. She passed the examination but never learned of her success.<ref name = "Bose23"/>

== Career ==
Apart from working as an educator, Bose was an early [[feminist]]. Writing in English magazine ''Modern Review'', she argued that women should get a better education, "not because we may make better matches for our girls ... not even that the services of the daughter-in-law may be more valuable in the home of her adoption, but because a woman like a man is first of all a mind, and only in the second place physical and a body."<ref>{{cite book |last=Ray |first=Bharati |author-link=Bharati Ray |chapter=Women in Calcutta: the Years of Change |year=1990 |editor-last=Chaudhuri |editor-first=Sukanta |editor-link=Sukanta Chaudhuri |title=Calcutta: The Living City |volume=Volume II: The Present and Future |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=36 |isbn=978-0-19-563697-0}}</ref> [[Kamini Roy]], who studied with her in Bethune School, picked up feminism from her. Upon her husband's knighthood in 1916, she became Lady Bose.[[File:Sister Nivedita, Charlotte Sevier, Sister Christine and Lady Abala Bose in Mayavati.jpg|thumb|right|[[Sister Nivedita]], [[Sister Christine]], [[Charlotte Sevier]], and Lady Abala Bose in Mayavati]]. Bose served as Secretary of [[Brahmo Balika Shikshalaya]] from 1910 to 1936. She died on 26 April 1951.<ref name="Bose23" />

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.saadigitalarchive.org/search/Abala%20Bose Abala Bose materials in the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)]

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[[Category:University of Calcutta alumni]]
[[Category:Madras Medical College alumni]]

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