Sacuntala de Miranda (7 November 1934 - 30 January 2008) was a Portuguese historian and political activist from the Azores.
[2] She was the leader of the youth section of the Movement of Democratic Unity (MUD) and later joined the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP).
After she switched from the approved political theory of the Estado Novo to teaching about democracy and freedom of thought, she was pressured by the PIDE to leave the school.
[4] Facing state repression, along with her father who had supported the annexation of Goa by India,[4] she went into exile in England, where she continued agitating against the Estado Novo.
[2] She was also active in the trade union movement among Portuguese immigrant workers,[7] and in solidarity campaigns with African colonies in the wars of liberation.
[5] Following the Carnation Revolution of 1974, she returned to Portugal,[3] where she worked for the Ministry of Internal Administration in the provisional government of Vasco Gonçalves.