Rai Bahadur RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana (; commercially styled as Rai since 2000; known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane) is the national public broadcasting company of Italy, owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance (Italy), Ministry of Eco ...

Dewan ''Dewan'' (also known as ''diwan'', sometimes spelled ''devan'' or ''divan'') designated a powerful government official, minister, or ruler. A ''dewan'' was the head of a state institution of the same name (see Divan). Diwans belonged to the e ...

Kaliprosanna Ghosh, CIE Vidyasagar was a

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

journalist, writer and scholar.

Early life

Ghosh was born on 23 July 1843 in the village of Bharakar in

Bikrampur Bikrampur ("City of Courage") was a pargana situated south of Dhaka, the modern capital city of Bangladesh. In the present day, it is known as Munshiganj District of Bangladesh. It is a historic region in Bengal and was a part of the Bhawal ...

Bengal Presidency The Bengal Presidency, officially the Presidency of Fort William and later Bengal Province, was a subdivision of the British Empire in India. At the height of its territorial jurisdiction, it covered large parts of what is now South Asia and ...

British India The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one ...

to a

Bengali Hindu Bengali Hindus ( bn, বাঙ্গালী হিন্দু/বাঙালি হিন্দু, translit=Bāṅgālī Hindu/Bāṅāli Hindu) are an ethnoreligious population who make up the majority in the Indian states of West Ben ...

father known as Shibnath Ghosh. Kaliprosanna Gosh studied at an English-medium school, at a maktab, and at a

Sanskrit Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late ...

school. This enabled him to gain a good grasp in many languages such as English,

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

and Sanskrit. He completed his studies at

Dhaka Collegiate School Dhaka Collegiate School is a secondary school in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is one of the oldest schools in Bangladesh. The students of collegiate school are called Collegiatian. History The school was established in Dhaka on 21 June 1835 as Dhaka E ...

. In circa 1863, Ghosh travelled to

Bhowanipore Bhowanipore (also Bhowanipur; bn, ভবানীপুর) is a neighbourhood of South Kolkata in Kolkata district of West Bengal, India. History In 1717, the East India Company obtained the right to rent from 38 villages surrounding their ...

where he gave a speech on

Christianity Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It is the world's largest and most widespread religion with roughly 2.38 billion followers representing one-third of the global pop ...

. Here, Ghosh was introduced to

Debendranath Tagore Debendranath Tagore (15 May 1817 – 19 January 1905) was an Indian Hindu philosopher and religious reformer, active in the Brahmo Samaj (earlier called Bhramho Sabha) ("Society of Brahma", also translated as ''Society of God''). He joined Brahm ...

and soon after joined the

Brahmo Samaj Brahmo Samaj ( bn, ব্রহ্ম সমাজ, Brahmô Sômaj, ) is the societal component of Brahmoism, which began as a monotheistic reformist movement of the Hindu religion that appeared during the Bengal Renaissance. It was one of t ...

. Kaliprosanna Ghosh left 2 son. Roybahadur Satyaprasanna Ghosh & Roybahadur Saradaprasanna Ghosh. Satyaprasanna Ghosh had a daughter. Saradaprasanna left 4 sons: Sunitiprasanna, Debaprasanna, Satishprasanna and Shailajaprasanna. Sunitiprasanna was a great scholar & once owned the prestigious Melody music store of

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

city. He had 4 sons Sourishprasanna, Saibalprasanna, Sourinprasanna & Subhashprasanna.

Career

Ghosh started working at the Dhaka Lower Division Court as a bench clerk in 1865. In 1870, he was appointed the editor of

Dhaka Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city i ...

's Brahmo Samaj journal called Shubhosadhini. He became the editor of Bandhab in 1874, a magazine which was referred to as the second "

Bangadarshan ''Bangadarshan'' ( bn, বঙ্গদর্শন) was a Bengali literary magazine, founded by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in 1872, and resuscitated in 1901 under the editorship of Rabindranath Tagore. The magazine had a defining influence on th ...

". He left his career in the Dhaka court in 1876. In 1877, he was appointed the

Bhawal Estate Bhawal Estate was the second largest zamindari in Bengal (in modern-day Bangladesh) until it was abolished according to ''East Bengal State Acquisition and Tenancy Act of 1950''. History In the late 17th century, Daulat Ghazi was the zamind ...

for Zamindar Raja Rajendranarayan Roychowdhury.

Gobindachandra Das Gobindachandra Das ( bn, গোবিন্দচন্দ্র দাস) (1855–1918), was a Bengali poet and writer. Life Das was born in Gazipur of Bengal province. He was a very poor man and could not continue study. He was an employee ...

, who worked in the estate, protested against Ghosh's misconduct as Dewan, although Das was dismissed for rebelliously protesting. Ghosh founded his own society known as the Literary Review Council. He also joined the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad in 1894 and served as its vice-chairman from 1897 to 1910. Ghosh went on to serve as the president of the District Local Board and chairman of the Literary Assembly. He wrote a number of books on philosophy and society. He was awarded the titles of

, Vidyasagar and Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire. In 1902, he stopped being the Dewan of Bhawal.

Works

*Shongeetmonjori (1872) *Probhat Chinta (1877) *Bhrantibinod (1881) *Nibhrito Chinta (1883) *Komolkobita (1888) *Promodolohori (1895) *Bhoktir Joy (1895) *Narijatibishoyok Prostab (1896) *Nisheeth Chinta (1896) *Maa Na Mohashokti (1905) *Janokir Ogniporikkha (1905) *Chhayadorshon (1905)

Death

Ghosh died on 29 July 1910.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ghosh, Kaliprosanna 1843 births 1910 deaths Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire Bengali writers Bengali Hindus 19th-century Bengalis 20th-century Bengalis People from Munshiganj District Indian journalists 19th-century Indian journalists Journalists from West Bengal Indian scholars 19th-century Indian scholars Indian non-fiction writers Indian male non-fiction writers 19th-century Indian non-fiction writers 20th-century Indian non-fiction writers Indian writers 19th-century Indian writers 20th-century Indian writers Indian male writers 19th-century Indian male writers 20th-century Indian male writers People from West Bengal Pogose School alumni