Beni Madhab Das

Beni Madhab Das belonged to a political family. His second son (Bina's "Mejda" i.e. second elder brother) was imprisoned for participating in the Non-cooperation movement and national movement. His wife Sarada Devi was the daughter of Madhusudan Sen. Madhusudan Sen had worked as secretary of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj in Calcutta before retiring and moving to Dhaka. Sarada Devi was active in social service. They had two daughters and possibly three sons. The youngest son was Amal (younger than Beena).^[1] The two youngest daughters were famous revolutionaries Kalyani Das (Bhattacharya) and Bina Das (Bhaumik). The other three daughters were Kamala, Sushila, Punnya Prabha.^[2] Kalyani was involved in social service and revolutionary activities and was the founder of the "Chhatri Sangha". She was imprisoned for anti-British politics. Bina Das was active in armed revolution against the British and was sentenced to nine years' imprisonment for attempting to assassinate the British Governor of Bengal Stanley Jackson with a pistol at the age of 21 in University of Calcutta convocation on 6 February 1932. Far from discouraging his daughter's revolutionary activities, the patriotic Beni Madhab indirectly encouraged and directly continued moral support for them.^[3]

He died on 2 September 1952 in Calcutta.