Khudiram Bose

Khudiram Bose was born in a Bengali Hindu family on 3 December 1889 in the village Habibpur near the town of Midnapur in the Midnapore district of West Bengal. His father Trailokyanath Basu was the revenue agent of the town of the Nadazol province. His mother was Lakshmipriya Devi. He was the fourth child after 3 daughters — Aparupa, Sarojini and Nanibala (two previous sons had died in infancy). taken over by superstitious fear of another case of infant mortality, the mothers, going along with the then prevailing rural/folk custom, symbolically "gave up" all social rights on her only surviving male child, and "sold" the baby to her eldest daughter Aparupa for 3 handfuls of "khud", or foodgrain. Thus the baby, who was "bought" in exchange of "khud", came to be named "Khudiram", and brought up wholly from that moment by his eldest sister.