Slavery, Servitude and Wage Work: Domestic Work in Bengal.

Abstract

16 June 2015. Pran Gobinda Das (78 years) and Renuka Das (75 years) were found murdered in two rooms of their flat. Pran Gobinda had been bludgeoned and smothered; Renuka bludgeoned, her throat slit and smothered. About two lakh rupees and some jewellery had been taken. They were both retired teachers. Pran Gobina taught Political Science at Sreegopal Banerjee College at Mogra and had written two textbooks. Renuka had taught History at Sarojini Naidu College in Dumdum. Their only child, a daughter, Suchismita, married Tushar Deb, agricultural scientist, in 1998 and moved to the USA where she worked with the US Food and Drug Administration.