Manomohan Bose was a Bengali journalist, poet, and playwright.
Early life
Bose was born in 1831 in Nishchintapur,
Jessore District
Jessore District (Bengali: যশোর, pronounced Jaw-shore, Anglicised: Jessore), officially spelled Jashore District from April 2018, is a district in the southwestern region of Bangladesh. It is bordered by India to the west, Khulna Distr ...
,
Bengal Presidency,
British India at his maternal Uncle's house. He belonged to the famous Bose family of
Chhota Jagulia
Chhota Jagulia is a village and a gram panchayat in the Barasat I Block - 1 in the Barasat Sadar subdivision of the North 24 Parganas district in the state of West Bengal, India. It is around 7 km from Barasat.
Geography
Location
Chhota ...
,
North 24 Parganas District
North 24 Parganas (abv. 24 PGS (N)) or sometimes North Twenty Four Parganas is a district in southern West Bengal, of eastern India. North 24 Parganas extends in the tropical zone from latitude 22° 11′ 6″ north to 23° 15′ 2″ north and f ...
of present-day
West Bengal.
[''Manomohan Basur Aprakashita Diary'', Das, Sunil, Sahityalok, Calcutta, 1957, p. 140] He studied at the Sanskrit school in Jessore and
Hare School
Hare School is one of the oldest schools in Kolkata, India, teaching grades one to twelve under the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education. It is a state government-administered boys sc ...
in Calcutta. He then went onto to study at the
Scottish Church College. He was inspired to write by
Ishwar Chandra Gupta.
Career
Bose wrote for Ishwar Chandra Gupta's Sambad Prabhakar. His writings were also published in
Akshay Kumar Datta
Akshay Kumar Datta (also spelt Akshay Kumar Dutta) ( bn, অক্ষয় কুমার দত্ত) (15 July 1820 – 18 May 1886) was a Bengali writer from India. He was one of the initiators of the Bengal Renaissance.
Early life
He wa ...
's Tattvabodhini. He wrote in and edited Madhyastha in 1872 and Sambad Bibhakar in 1852. He wrote a number of plays based on history and mythology. His plays were nationalist in nature. He supported the
Hindu Mela, a nationalist organization. In 1896 he was the Vice-President of
Bangiya Sahitya Parishad
Bangiya Sahitya Parishat is a literary society in Maniktala of Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Established during the time of the British Raj, its goal is to promote Bengali literature, both by translating works in other languages to Bengali and ...
.
Selected bibliography
*Sati (1873)
*Ramabhisek (1867)
*Pranayapariksa (1869)
*Harishchandra (1875)
*Parthaparajay (1881)
*Raslila (1889)
*Anandamay (1889)
*Hindur Achar-byabahar (1873)
*Baktrtamala (1873)
*Dulin (1891).
*Manomohan Gitabali
Death
Bose died in 1912.
References
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1831 births
1912 deaths
20th-century Bengali poets
Bengali Hindus
People from Jessore District
Scottish Church College alumni
Dramatists and playwrights from British India
People from the Bengal Presidency
Dramatists and playwrights from West Bengal