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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Jyotirmayee Gangopadhyay<br />
| native_name = জ্যোতির্ময়ী গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়<br />
| image = Jyotirmoyi_Ganguli.jpg<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1889|1|25}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1945|11|22|1889|1|25}}<br />
| death_place = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]<br />
| alma_mater = [[Bethune College|Bethune School]]<br />
| parents = [[Dwarkanath Ganguly]] (father), [[Kadambini Ganguly]] (mother)<br />
| spouse = <br />
| children = <br />
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| movement = [[Indian Independence Movement]]<br />
| occupation = Social activist, politician<br />
}}<br />
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'''Jyotirmayee Gangopadhyay''' (1889–1945) was a Bengali educationist, feminist, and a member of the [[Brahmo Samaj]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=32IFAQAAIAAJ&q=Jyotirmayee+Gangopadhyay|title=From the Seams of History: Essays on Indian Women|last=Ray|first=Bharati|year=1995|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=94|isbn=978-0-19-563226-2|language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Jyotirmayee was born on 25 January 1889 in [[Kolkata]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British Raj]]. Her father [[Dwarkanath Ganguly]] was a social reformer, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj and an Indian Nationalist and her mother [[Kadambini Ganguly|Kadambini Devi]] was the first female student from University of Kolkata to graduate in a medical field.<ref name="gjb">{{cite web|last1=Mohanta|first1=Sambaru Chandra|title=Gangopadhyay, Jyotirmayee|url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Gangopadhyay,_Jyotirmayee|website=Banglapedia|access-date=12 November 2017}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Jyotirmayee graduated from [[Brahmo Balika Shikshalaya|Brahmo Balika Shikshalaya (Brahmo Girls' School)]] and completed her B.A. in the [[Bethune College]] of Kolkata. In 1908 she completed her M.A. in philosophy from the [[University of Kolkata]]. She taught at the Bethune Collegiate School and after that in the [[Ravenshaw College]] in [[Cuttack]], [[Odisha]]. She moved to Sri Lanka to join the [[Ladies' College (Sri Lanka)|Women's College]] as its principal. In 1920 she served as the principal of Jullundur Kanya Mahavidyalay In 1925 she served as the principal of Brahmo Girls' School and the next year in Vidyasagar Bani Bhavan. She joined the Buddhist College, Ceylon in 1929. She joined the [[Non-Cooperation movement]] in the early 1920s.<ref name="gjb" /><br />
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Jyotirmayee raised a female volunteer corp for the [[Indian National Congress]]. In 1926 she started the Students' Association for Social Service. She joined the Bengal Provincial Congress Committee and the Satyagraha movement. She served as the vice-president of the Women's Satyagraha Committee. In 1930 and 1932 she was jailed for her involvement in the [[Satyagraha|Satyagraha movement]]. She was a founding member of the Aryasthan Insurance Company. She was elected city councilor to the [[Kolkata Municipal Corporation]]. In 1942 she was arrested for her role in the Quit India Movement.<ref name="gjb" /><br />
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==Death==<br />
Jyotirmayee was killed by police firing on 22 November 1945 while with a procession of students that was protesting the death of [[Rameshwar Banerjee]].<ref name="gjb" /><br />
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