Panchanan Barma and His Message upon the Contemporary Society: A Study on Historical Appraisal.

Contemporary History of India

Abstract: Panchanan Barma was a social reformer, a scholar, a philosopher, a patriotic politician. His works of reforms have rendered to his community a good turn to renaissance at the beginning of twentieth century occurring in Rangpur. The light of renaissance had actually been kindled by Harmohan Roy Khajanchi and others before Panchanan Barma went to Rangpur. But this light shone brilliantly with Panchanan s able fueling and torching. In ancient times Pragjyotisha or Kamrupa was a developed civilization; and Rangapur (Rangpur) was under this Kamrupa civilization. After a long period of darkness, in the early nineteenth century this early enlightened civilization kindled a light once again in Rangpur for a brilliant revival of the past. In this paper an attempt is made to study Panchanan Barma s activities towards the Rajbanshi society as well as entire society of undivided Dinajpur.

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