[2] She belongs to Bangal and was the daughter of Debendranath Ghose, a nationalist and a professor of philosophy at Victoria College of Comilla in eastern Bengal.

[2] Ghose was inspired by Profullanandini Brahma, a student at Nawab Faizunnesa Government Girls' High School Comilla, and joined the Jugantar Party,[2] a militant revolutionary organization which "used murder as a political technique to dislodge British colonial rule.

[2] On 14 December 1931, Ghose and Suniti Chowdhury both 16 at that time, walked into the office of Charles Geoffrey Buckland Stevens, a British bureaucrat and the district magistrate of Comilla, under the pretense that they wanted to present candies and chocolates to the magistrate prior to Christmas as he would be gone to Britain during the same.

[2] In February 1932, Ghose and Chowdhury appeared in court in Kolkata (formerly called Calcutta), and were sentenced to transportation for life (lifelong banishment).

[2] After the verdict was announced, a flyer was found by the intelligence branch of police in the Rajshahi district praising Ghose and Chowdbury as nationalist heroines.

[4] The poster read, "THOU ART FREEDOM'S NOW, AND FAME'S" and displayed photographs of the two girls alongside lines from Robert Burns' poem Scots Wha Hae: "Tyrants fall in every foe!