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One century, two countries and three forgotten heroic women (twentieth century South Asia) by Basu, Nirban

“…All of them who were born in undivided Indian subcontinent, were near contemporaries and had more or less great longevity lived and worked in the 20th century the first half of which was the colonial era and the second half was the growing years of a newly liberated nation.They all were born in Barisal, a riverine district of Eastern Bengal in the Bengal Presidency under the British rule which later became part of Pakistan(1947) after partition of the country and finally of Bangladesh(1971).All the three women soon after partition left their motherland in their middle age and settled in West Bengal, India. …”
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