Prabhabati Bose

Prabhabati Bose
Prabhabati Bose (Dutt)
Born
Prabhabati Dutt

1869
Died29 December 1943 (aged 74)
Calcutta, Bengal, British India (now West Bengal, India)
OccupationsSocial activist and politician
Known forMother of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and Sarat Chandra Bose
SpouseJanakinath Bose
Children14, 8 sons (Subhash Chandra Bose, Sarat Chandra Bose & others) and 6 daughters
Parents
  • Ganganarayan Dutta (father)
  • Kamala Kamini Dutta (mother)
RelativesRoby Datta (cousin)

Prabhabati Bose (née Dutta) was an Indian social activist and politician. She was born in 1869 into a respected Kayastha Bharadwaja clan Dutta family of Hatkhola, in Calcutta North. She was the eldest daughter of Ganganarayan Dutta and Kamala Kamini Dutta of Kashinath Dutta Road, Baranagore (a suburb of Calcutta), India. Subhas Chandra Bose is her son.

In 1880, at the age of 11, she was married off to Janakinath Bose who hailed from a Kulin Bose family from the village Kodalia (located near Sonarpur).