The Bethune college played a pivotal role in shaping women who fought for freedom from British rule. But in Calcutta’s Bethune College, women like her were not rare. John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune, who founded the Bethune college. Zamindar Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee gifted Bethune five and a half bighas of land for building a school, that later turned into Bethune college. One of the most significant incidents in the history of Bethune College occurred when the Simon Commission arrived in 1928.

Source: Indian Express August 14, 2020 12:35 UTC