[3][4] After completing her education in Chattogram (formerly Chittagong) and Dhaka (formerly Dacca), she attended Bethune College in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta).

She had a suicide note or a letter with her, where she had penned down the objectives of the Indian Republican Army, Chittagong Branch.

Ramkrishna Biswas was waiting his execution by hanging by the British and Pritilata used to meet him in the alias of his cousin sister.

[10] Pritilata was born in a middle-class Bengali Baidya Brahmin family on 5 May 1911[11][12] in Dhalghat village in Patiya upazila of Chittagong (now in Bangladesh).

Kalpana Datta, a classmate of Pritilata, writes in the biography Chittagong Armoury Raiders– "We had no clear idea in our school days about our future.

[14] A contemporary revolutionary, Binod Bihari Chowdhury, objected that they did not allow women to join their group.

However, Pritalata was allowed to join the group because the revolutionaries reasoned that women transporting weapons would not attract as much suspicious as men.

[22] Surjo Sen and his revolutionary group decided to kill Mr. Craig, Inspector General of Chittagong.

[24] The family and friends lacked the amount of money required to travel from Chittagong to Alipore Jail of Calcutta.

[24] Along with the revolutionary group of Surya Sen, Pritilata took part in many raids like attacks on the Telephone & Telegraph offices[12] and the capture of the reserve police line.

[3] In 1932, Surjo Sen planned to attack the Pahartali European Club which had a signboard that read "Dogs and Indians not allowed".

Her associates Kalishankar Dey, Bireshwar Roy, Prafulla Das, Shanti Chakraborty wore dhoti and shirt.

The revolutionaries divided themselves into three separate groups for the attack; the building was set alight before they started shooting into it.

On searching her dead body, the police found a few leaflets, photograph of Ramkrishna Biswas, bullets, whistle and the draft of their plan of attack.

In the report it was written that Pritilata:[26] had been closely associated with, if not actually the mistress of, the terrorist Biswas who was hanged for the murder of Inspector Tarini Mukherjee, and some reports indicate that she was the wife of Nirmal Sen who was killed while attempting to evade arrest at Dhalghat, where Captain Cameron fell.Bangladeshi writer Selina Hossain calls Pritilata an ideal for every woman.

[29] In 2012, a bronze sculpture of Pritilata Waddedar was erected in front of the Pahartali Railway School, adjacent to the historical European Club.