Ila MItra

Ila Mitra (Bangla: ??? ?????) (1925-2002) was a legendary peasants movement organizer of the Indian Subcontinent, especially in Bengal (now Bangladesh). She was born to a upper middleclass Bengali family in Kolkata on 18 October,1925. She became a communist during her youth. In 1945, she married Ramendra Mitra, who was an active member of the Communist Party despite his lineage from a zamindar (landowner) family of Chapai Nawabganj.

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Ila Mitra was the leader of peasants and indegenous Santhals in greater Rajshahi region, and was often referred to by them as RaniMa (Queen mother). She organized a peasant-santhal uprising in Nachole, Rajshahi on 5 January 1950, but the uprising was thwarted by the police. Mitra was arrested by the police while trying to escape, and was sent to the Rajshahi Central jail on 21 January 1950, where she was tortured. After a trial for treason, Ila Mitra was sentenced to life imprisonment.

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