Abala, Lady Bose (8 August 1864 – 25 April 1951) was an Indian social worker and feminist.

[1] Her father was the social reformer Durgamohan Das and her mother was Brahmamoyee Devi.

Abala Bose was a student of the Brahma Balika Vidyalay in Kolkata (then Calcutta) and subsequently enrolled at Bethune School from where she passed the Entrance Examination in 1881.

She went to Madras (now Chennai) in 1882 on Bengal government scholarship to study medicine but had to give up because of ill health.

Writing in English magazine Modern Review, she argued that women should get a better education, "not because we may make better matches for our girls ... not even that the services of the daughter-in-law may be more valuable in the home of her adoption, but because a woman like a man is first of all a mind, and only in the second place physical and a body.