Pankajini Bose
Pankajini Bose (née Guha Mustafa) (Script error: The function "langx" does not exist.) (1884 – 1900) was a 19th-century British Indian woman poet.[1][2]
Biography
Pankajini Guha Mustofi was born to Nibaranchandra Mustofi of Srinagar village, Bikrampur Pargana in Dhaka district, British India, now Bangladesh, Bangladesh. At the age of thirteen, Pankajini was married to Ashutosh Basu, the eldest son of Kumudbandhu Basu, of Vajrayogini village. After the marriage, Pankajini started writing poems. But Pankajini died within four years of marriage. After her death, the poems written by Pankajini were published in 1901 by Anand Chandra Mitra, the poet of the book of poetry Helena, with his introduction, under the name Smriti Kona.[2] After the publication of Smriti-Kona, some of Pankajini's poems were translated into English. The poem titled “Suryamukhi” was translated into English by the polyglot Khatnama Professor Harinath De. When the second edition of Smritikanā was published fifteen years later in 1916, Harinath Dey’s English translation of “Suryamukhi” was included.[2] Two poems titled “Basanta Panchami” and “Jivanta Putul” were translated into English by Miss Whitehouse as “Basanta Panchami” and “The Living Doll” respectively. The poems were published in the book Poems by Indian Women in “The Heritage of India” series.[1]
Pankajini died at age 16 in 1900.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Subodhchandra Sengupta & Anjali Bose (2016). Sansad Bengali Charitabhidhan Vol.I. Sahitya Sansad,Kolkata. p. 381. ISBN 978-81-7955-135-6. Search this book on
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "বঙ্গসাহিত্যে নারী (in Bengali)". Retrieved 2025-06-07.
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