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{{Infobox person
|name = Bela Mitra
|birth_name = Amita Bose
|birth_date = {{Birth year|1920}}
|birth_place = [[Kodalia]], [[24 Parganas]], [[British India]]
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1952|7|31|1920}}
|death_place =
|nationality = Indian
|other_names = Bela Bose
|relatives = Suresh Bose (father)<br> [[Subhas Chandra Bose]] (uncle)
|organization = [[Rani of Jhansi Regiment]], [[Indian National Army]]
|movement = [[Indian Independence Movement]]
|spouse = Haridas Mitra (1936–1952; her death)
|children = [[Amit Mitra]]
}}
'''Bela Mitra''', née Bose (1920 – 31 July 1952) was a [[Bengalis|Bengali]] revolutionary involved with the Jhansi Rani Regiment, the Women's Regiment of the [[Indian National Army]], and a social worker.

==Family==
Mitra was born as Amita or Bela Bose<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fa5Pp0zSAmoC&q=Bela+Mitra&pg=PA82|title=Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: Contemporary Anecdotes, Reminiscences|last=Priyadarśī Mukherji|year=2009|isbn=9788124114285|access-date=October 15, 2018}}</ref> in Kodalia, undivided [[24 Parganas]] in [[British India]]. Her father was [[Suresh Chandra Bose]]. She was the niece of [[Subhas Chandra Bose]]. She married freedom fighter [[Haridas Mitra]] in 1936.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zz3eKF7NdlAC&q=Bela+Mitra&pg=PA68|title=Gupta Ashoka: In the Path of Service: A memoir of a Social Worker|last=Ashoka Gupta|year=2005|isbn=9788185604565|access-date=October 15, 2018}}</ref> Haridas later became the deputy Speaker of West Bengal Assembly. Their son [[Amit Mitra]] is an economist and present finance Minister of the State of [[West Bengal]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/From-corporate-boardrooms-to-Writers-Buildings/article20245360.ece|title=From corporate boardrooms to Writers' Buildings|website=thehindubusinessline.com|date=20 May 2011 |access-date=October 15, 2018}}</ref><ref name=":1" />

==Activities==
Mitra took active part in anti British movement since 1940 while Subhas Chandra Bose left Ramgarh Session of the [[Indian National Congress]]. Her husband Haridas Mitra was a member of secret service team of [[Azad Hind Fauj]]. Smt. Mitra joined in Indian National Army and worked in Jhansi Rani Brigade.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/At-64-new-battles-to-be-waged-and-won/articleshow/9586334.cms|title=At 64, new battles to be waged and won|website=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=October 15, 2018}}</ref> She gave shelters to the revolutionaries came outside of India,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hOz3DQAAQBAJ&q=Bela+Mitra&pg=PT61|title=Challenge to the Empire- A Study of Netaji|last=Dr. S. C. Maikap|year=1993|isbn=9788123023649|access-date=October 15, 2018}}</ref> operated transmitter of [[Azad Hind Radio]] and sent information to [[Singapore]] from [[Kolkata]] since January to October in 1944. While her husband Haridas Mitra was arrested and sentenced to death on 21 June 1945, she went to [[Poona]], prayed to [[Mahatma Gandhi]] to pursue for acquittal of her husband to the British Government. Gandhi wrote letters to the then [[Viceroy of india|Viceroy of India]], [[Lord Wavell]], to commute the death sentence, and subsequently Haridas Mitra get released along with three others Jyotish Basu, Amar Singh Gill, Pabitra Roy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/kolkata/when-mahatma-saved-netajis-revolutionaries-from-gallows/|title=When Mahatma saved Netaji's revolutionaries from gallows|website=indianexpress.com|date=15 September 2014 |access-date=October 15, 2018}}</ref> In 1947 Smt. Mitra formed a social organisation, Jhansir Rani Relief Team. In 1950 she started worked in Abhaynagar near [[Dankuni]] for the development of refugees came from [[East Pakistan]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|title=Sansab Bangali Charitavidhan (Bengali)|last=Subodh C. Sengupta & Anjali Basu|first=Vol - I|publisher=Sahitya Sansad|year=2002|isbn=81-85626-65-0|location=Kolkata|pages=367}}</ref>

== Legacy ==
Smt Mitra died in 1952. [[Belanagar railway station]] in [[Howrah district]] on the [[Howrah–Bardhaman chord|Howrah-Bardhaman Chord]] line, is named after her in 1958. This was the first Railway station in [[India]] named after any Indian woman.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":0" />

==References==
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{{Azad Hind Fauj}}

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[[Category:1920 births]]
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[[Category:Indian National Army personnel]]
[[Category:Indian people of World War II]]
[[Category:Indian revolutionaries]]
[[Category:Indian women of World War II]]
[[Category:Social workers]]
[[Category:People from Kolkata]]
[[Category:Social workers from West Bengal]]
[[Category:Indian independence activists from West Bengal]]

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