Talk:Bhogeswari Phukanani

Article does not always jibe with sources

The primary source, which is the 2008 book by Guptajit Pathak, is not followed in terms of the events surrounding her death. The sequence of events according to the book appear to have been:

1. Five men are killed by the British authorities. They are declared martyrs.
2. ? September 1942: Celebration day to honor the five martyrs. Congress party office, closed by the British, is reopened as part of the festivities
3. 18 September 1942: communal feast to celebrate the reopening of the Congress office. British authorities arrive and instruct the people to destroy the Congress office. Numali Phukan, Bhogeswari's son, urges people not to, and they refuse to demolish it. Bhogeswari arrives to discover her son and the others under threat; Mr. Finch (who seems to be some sort of police or other official) is pointing a pistol at him, and she hits Finch with a flag she is carrying. He shoots her in the head and fatally wounds her.
4. three days later (21? September 1942): Bhogeswari dies.

The narrative in the Assam Times article is rather different, with the following sequence:

1. Unspecified atrocities by British, who also take over Berhampur Congress office.
2. Congress office retaken and opened by locals, who celebrate their success. British arrive under Captain Finish to retake control. People from area villages arrive with National flags in hand; "mob" is led by Ratnamala and Bhogeswari. Finish takes flag from Ratnamala and knocks him to the ground; Bhogeswari hits Finish with her flag and he shoots her in the head. She falls to the ground and dies; it's 20 September 1942.

However, the article doesn't really agree with either of these.

It's a significant problem when two sources have such different representations of the same event. They both indicate that the locals had reopened the Congress office, and that the day this was celebrated is the day that the British came to close it again. Finch or Finish shot Bhogeswari in the head, and she died on 20 or 21 September 1942, either shortly after being shot or three days later. It would probably be a good idea to try to find other sources. (Neither of these sources is particularly well written, and the many variant spellings of Bhogeswari's last name in the Pathak is a worrying sign.)

The Indian independence movement has the following statement, In the time when women took a back seat (due to the patriarchal culture at that time in India), which I normally wouldn't blink at, if the Assam Times source hadn't said, about Assam, that women have enjoyed equal rights with men since ancient times. If Assam is indeed a part of India where women have traditionally had equality, then it undercuts the blanket statement about India, which should probably be omitted.

The article does need a good copyedit. One example: the sentence about the martyrs reads as if it's the police killing that's being celebrated (as if they deserved to be killed), rather than honoring the five who had been martyred. Also, the only sentence to have received an Assam Times citation before my recent edits was the one about the 1930 picketing, something the Assam Times article does not even mention.

Finally, about her name: the Pathak book seems to spell her given name "Bhogeswari" most often, without the second "h", though it does use "Bhogeshwari" a few times and even "Bhugeshwari" and "Bhugeswari" (once each). Given that the stadium and hospital named after her, plus the Assam Times source and the majority of the Pathak source, all use "Bhogeswari", I think the article should probably standardize on that spelling. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:11, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi, BlueMoonset I have rewritten parts of it. Please do have a look.  FITINDIA  09:18, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

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