Bipradas Pal Chowdhury (1857 - 25 October 1914) was a Bengali industrialist and distinguished landlord. His daughter in law Smt. Ila Pal Choudhury was the

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and nationalist politician.

Career

Pal Chowdhury was born at Maheshganj in

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. His father was prominent

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Madhusudan Pal Chowdhury. He completed F.A from the

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in 1873 and went to

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for studying

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. Returning from England, Pal Chowdhury made factories of

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and a tannery. He was interested to produce ''Swadeshi'' articles and took part in independent capitalist development in

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. After that he entered in Tea business and form Gayabari Tea estate near

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competing with British businessman. He was a man of modern, enlightened concept. Pal Chowdhury also donated lots of land for expansion of railway line in Nadia.

Death

Bipradas Pal Chowdhury died in 1914 in

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. A polytechnic college,

Bipradas Pal Chowdhury Institute of Technology Bipradas Pal Chowdhury Institute of Technology, established in 1956, is a government polytechnic institute located in Krishnanagar, Nadia district, West Bengal. This institute was named in the memory of landlord and Bengali industrialist Bip ...

was named after him at

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References

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