Abala Bose (Bengali: অবলা বোস)(popular as Lady Abala Bose) (1864-1951), was a social worker well-known for her efforts in the field of women’s education and her contribution towards the alleviation of the condition of widows. Bangla (বাংলা, IPA: ) or Bengali is an Indo-Aryan language of East South Asia, evolved from Sanskrit and Prakrit. ...

Daughter of the renowned Brahmo reformer Durga Mohan Das, sister of S.R.Das and Sarala Roy, and cousin of Chittaranjan Das, she was born at Barisal on 8th August 1864. She belonged to the famous Das family of Telirbagh, Dhaka, now in Bangladesh. She was married to Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, the renowned scientist, and had occasion to travel abroad with him many times. Mr Satish Ranjan Das, was the Advocate-General of Bengal and later the Law Member of the Executive Council of the Viceroy; sometime treasurer of the Boy Scouts of Bengal and the Lodge of Good Fellowship, and a prominent member of the reformist Brahmo Samaj in Bengal. ... Chittaranjan Das (C.R.Das) (popularly called Deshbandhu) (November 25, 1870 - June 16, 1925) was a Bengali lawyer and a major figure in the Indian independence movement. ... Barisal is a district in southern Bangladesh. ... Dhaka (previously Dacca; Bangla: ঢাকা Ḍhākā), population 12,560,000[1] (2005 UN projection for statistical metropolitan area), is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh. ... Jagdish Chandra Bose (November 30, 1858–November 23, 1937) was a leading physicist of his age. ...

She was amongst the early students of Banga Mahila Vidyalaya and Bethune School, Kolkata, and passed entrance with a scholarship in 1881. As she could not secure admission to Calcutta Medical College, being a woman, she went to Chennai in 1882 on Bengal government scholarship to study medicine but had to give up because of ill health. She was married in 1887.   (IPA: [] Bengali: কলকাতা) (formerly  ) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. ...

She set up the Nari Siksha Samiti in 1919 for the spread of women’s education and for providing financial assistance to widows. This organisation had established around 200 schools in rural areas. In order to provide teachers for these schools she set up Vidyasagar Bani Bhaban, Mahila Shilpa Bhaban and Bani Bhaban Training School for young widows. After her husband’s death she donated Rs. 1 lakh to set up the Sister Nivedita Women’s Education Fund, which set up the Adults Primary Education Centre. She was Secretary of Brahmo Girls School from 1910 to 1936. She died on 26th April 1951. Margaret Elizabeth Noble (1867-1911), better known as Sister Nivedita, was a social worker, author, teacher and disciple of Swami Vivekananda. ...

Reference

• Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan (Biographical dictionary) in Bengali edited by Subodh Chandra Sengupta and Anjali Bose.