Ramgopal Ghosh (January 15, 1815 - 25 January 1868) was a leader of the

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Group, a successful businessman, orator and social reformer. He is called the '

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of India'.Sengupta, Subodh Chandra and Bose, Anjali (editors), 1976/1998, ''Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan'' (Biographical dictionary) Vol I, pp 480-481, Sengupta, Nitish, 2001/2002, ''History of the Bengali-speaking People'', p 228, UBS Publishers’ Distributors Pvt. Ltd., Ghosh was one of the personalities who helped John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune establish a girls' school in

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