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'''Bimal Pratibha Devi''' (1901 – 1978) was a trade union leader and a freedom fighter from [[West Bengal]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Bhattacharya |first=Chandrima S |date=6 November 1922 |title=The Namesake - The Telegraph sketches out the woman whose whiplash ways made a crack in time |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/the-namesake-tt-sketches-out-the-woman-whose-whiplash-ways-made-a-crack-in-time/cid/1896509 |access-date=7 April 2026 |website=Telegraph India}}</ref><ref>https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/35842B37ED0EC2CDC4EB63694B41A69F/S0020859022000347a.pdf/full_rights_feminists_in_south_asia_freedom_equality_and_justice.pdf</ref> She worked with coal mine labourers. She left [[Calcutta]] (now Kolkata) and went to Asansol to work with the mine workers.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sen |first=Samita |date=19 April 2021 |title=Gender and the Politics of Class: Women in Trade Unions in Bengal |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/action/cookieAbsent |access-date=2026-04-07 |website=www.tandfonline.com |doi=10.1080/00856401.2021.1888190#abstract}}</ref> She was known as Mathaji and Hunterwali.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2022-08-15 |title=Bimal Pratibha Devi স্মৃতির অতলে হারিয়ে গিয়েছেন হান্টারওয়ালি বিমল প্রতিভা |url=https://www.etvbharat.com/bengali/west-bengal/state/paschim-bardhaman/bimal-pratibha-devi-from-asansol-is-forgotten-in-depths-of-time/wb20220815202223704704451 |access-date=2026-04-07 |website=ETV Bharat News |language=bn}}</ref><br />
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Devi was born in [[Cuttack]], Odisha into an affluent family in December 1901. She married Charuchandra Banerjee, a doctor. She was inspired by her father, Surendranath Mukherjee, and joined the [[Swadeshi movement]].<ref name=":1" /> In 1921, she joined Nari Karmamandir, which trained women in nationalist activities. In 1927, she became the president of the [[Naujawan Bharat Sabha]], a left-wing revolutionary group started by [[Bhagat Singh]]. In 1928, she came out into the open and joined the Congress party. In support of the Civil Disobedience Movement, she started Nari Satyagraha Samiti in 1930.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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She was imprisoned many times. Her first long stint was from 1931 to 1938. She wrote two books in prison, ''Notun Diner'' ''Alo'' and ''Aguner Phulki.<ref name=":0" />''<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-08-11 |title=77th Independence Day: অনাদরে পড়ে আছে বিপ্লবীর নামফলক, হারিয়ে যাচ্ছে 'হান্টারওয়ালি' বিমলপ্রতিভা দেবীর ইতিহাস |url=https://www.etvbharat.com/bengali/west-bengal/state/paschim-bardhaman/freedom-fighter-nameplate-in-tatters-as-hunterwali-bimal-pratibha-devi-fades-away-from-indian-independence-history/wb20230811170300352352606 |access-date=2026-04-07 |website=ETV Bharat News |language=bn}}</ref><br />
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A road has been built in her name in Dhakeshwari Suryanagar area, Kuilapur.<ref name=":1" /><br />
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