Nine Ideal Indian Women By Sunity Devi

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AdhiraamBose
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About The Author:-
Suniti Devi or Sunity Devi(1864 to 1932) was the Maharani of The Princely State of Coochbehar,India.

In 1887,her husband,Nipendra Narayan was awarded GCIE and she was awarded CIE.Suniti Devi became the first Indian women to be awarded CIE.She attended the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Queen Victoria in 1898 and Delhi Durbar of 1911 with her husband,the Maharaja of Cooch Behar.She along with her sister,Sucharu Devi,were noted for their elegant style of dressing.

Her husband had set up in her name a girls school named Suniti Academy in 1881.Suniti Devi was the brain behind the establishment of the school.
She was an educationist and a women's rights activist at heart,gave annual grants for the institution,exempted the girl students from paying tuition fees and also rewarded the successful students.She had arranged for palace cars to ferry the girl students from home to school and back.In a further effort to avoid any controversy she ordered that the windows of the cars carrying the girls to school to be covered by curtains.

She along with her sister Sucharu Devi(Maharani of Mayurbhanj) also financed the foundation of Maharani Girls' High School at Darjeeling in 1908.She was the President of State Council and also the first President of All Bengal Women's Union in 1932 and worked along with other women's right activist from Bengal like Charulata Mukherjee,Saroj Nalini Dutt,T. R Nelly and her sister Sucharu Devi,the Maharani of Mayurbhanj.

Link To The Author's Wikipedia Page:-
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suniti_Devi


Link(s) To The Text:-
https://archive.org/details/nineidealindianw00suni

*In The Given Link,All The Pages Are Intact And The Text In Them Are Readable.

*I Suggest That This Project Be Completely Undertaken By A Bengali-Speaker As Many Words In The Text Might Be Well-Pronounced Only By A Bengali-Speaker.
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