Basanti Devi (23 March 1880 – 7 May 1974) was an Indian independence activist during the British rule in India.
Basanti studied at the Loreto House, Kolkata, where she met and married Chittaranjan Das at the age of seventeen.
[5] During the non-cooperation movement in 1921, the Indian National Congress called for strikes and a ban on foreign goods.
Two prisons in Kolkata were filled with revolutionary volunteers and detention camps were hastily constructed to detain more suspects.
[6] After Das' arrest, Basanti Devi took charge of his weekly publication Bangalar Katha (The Story of Bengal).
In 1928, Indian freedom fighter Lala Lajpat Rai died days after being injured by the police in a baton charge against his peaceful protest march.