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Prafulla Chandra Ghosh
Ghosh at Writers' Building in 1947
1st Premier of West Bengal
In office
15 August 1947 – 22 January 1948
GovernorChakravarti Rajagopalachari
Preceded byOffice Established
(Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy as Prime Minister of Bengal)
Succeeded byBidhan Chandra Roy
4th Chief Minister of West Bengal
In office
21 November 1967 – 20 February 1968
GovernorDharma Vira
Preceded byAjoy Kumar Mukherjee
Succeeded byPresident's rule
(Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee as Chief Minister)
Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
In office
1957–1962
Preceded byKumar Deba Prosad Garga
Succeeded bySushil Kumar Dhara
ConstituencyMahisadal
In office
1967–1968
Preceded byMahendranath Mahato
Succeeded byPanchkari De
ConstituencyJhargram
Personal details
Born24 December 1891
Maliakanda, Bengal, British India[1][2][3][4]
Died18 December 1983(1983-12-18) (aged 91)
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Political partyProgressive Democratic Front
Other political
affiliations
Indian National Congress Praja Socialist Party Independent
RelativesPriyanka Yoshikawa (great-granddaughter)
Alma materUniversity of Calcutta

Prafulla Chandra Ghosh (24 December 1891 – 18 December 1983) was the first Premier of West Bengal, India from 15 August 1947 to 14 August 1948. He also served as the Chief Minister of West Bengal in the "Progressive Democratic Alliance Front" government from 21 November 1967 to 20 February 1968.[5]

Early life

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Prafulla Chandra Ghosh was born on 24 December 1891 at a remote village, Malikanda, in Dhaka district, British India (now Bangladesh) in a Bengali Yadav family [6] as son of Purna Chandra Ghosh and Binodini Devi.[7] Prafulla Ghosh was a brilliant student throughout his academic life and always stood first with scholarship. Prafulla had very rural upbringing and enjoyed cultural festivals such as Jatra, Kirtan, Padavali Gan, and also participated in agricultural activities.[8] He was awarded doctorate in 1920 in Chemistry by Calcutta University.[9]

Political life

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Ghosh developed an interest in the Swadeshi Movement early on, but was most impressed and inspired by the ideas of armed revolution propagated by the Dhaka Anushilan Samiti, which he joined in 1909. However, the methods of the Samiti for raising money through theft and then defending the same in Court eventually alienated him, and he finally quit in 1913 to focus on academia. During the same time, while working for the Damodar flood relief, he met Surendranath Banerjee and other moderate leaders. Yogendra Nath Saha introduced him to the non-violent principles of Mahatma Gandhi. At the beginning, Gandhian principles did not impress him but he was moved by Gandhi's speech at Dhaka in December 1920 and soon afterwards met with him in Calcutta. In January 1921, he resigned from his position at the Calcutta Mint and along with other members of the Anami Sangh joined the Freedom Struggle.[10]

Family

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His great-grandson is Subhasish Ghosh, who is a Software Engineer at Zoom Video Communications, as of 2023.

His great-granddaughter is Priyanka Yoshikawa, who won the 2016 Miss World Japan contest.

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P. C. Ghosh, Member, Congress Working Committee and External Affairs-Premier, West Bengal broadcasting a talk on Indo-Pakistan Agreement from AIR. Calcutta on 26 July 1950.

Bibliography

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  • The theory of profits
  • India as known to ancient and mediaeval Europe
  • Mahatma Gandhi, as I saw him
  • West today
  • Jībana-smr̥tira bhūmikā
  • Mahātmā Gāndhī
  • Prācīna Bhāratīẏa sabhyatāra itihāsa

References

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  1. ^ Kantho, Kaler (September 2016). "এবার মিস জাপান হলেন বাংলাদেশি কন্যা প্রিয়াঙ্কা - কালের কণ্ঠ".
  2. ^ "দোহারের মেয়ে প্রিয়াঙ্কা হলেন মিস জাপান - daily nayadiganta". The Daily Nayadiganta.
  3. ^ "আমাদের - Kaler Kantho". www.kalerkantho.com.
  4. ^ "জাপানের সেরা সুন্দরী প্রিয়াংকা দোহারের ঘোষ পরিবারের মেয়ে - নগর-মহানগর - Jugantor". www.jugantor.com.
  5. ^ Modern Bengal A Short History of Bengal. Retrieved 18 April 2009.
  6. ^ Ghosh, Raya (10 November 2022). "How caste shaped politics in Bengal".
  7. ^ Prayer, Mario (2001). "The "Gandhians" of Bengal: Nationalism, Social Reconstruction and Cultural Orientations 1920–1942". Rivista degli Studi Orientali. 74 (Supplement No. 1–2). University of Rome: 236. ISSN 0392-4866. JSTOR 41913060. Ghosh was born in Malikanda, in the Dacca District, of a well-to-do Kāyastha family.
  8. ^ Ghosh, Praphullachandra (1976). Jībana-smr̥tira bhūmikā. Kalikātā: Maḍārṇa Buka Ejeṇsī. pp. 3–5. OCLC 20496530.
  9. ^ Ghosh, Praphullachandra (1976). Jībana-smr̥tira bhūmikā. Kalikātā: Maḍārṇa Buka Ejeṇsī. pp. 18–20. OCLC 20496530.
  10. ^ Ghosh, Prafulla Chandra (1960). Jiban-smritir Bhumika. pp. 21–22.
  11. ^ Kantho, Kaler. "বাংলাদেশি বংশোদ্ভুত প্রিয়াংকাকে নিয়ে ভারতে মাতামাতি - কালের কণ্ঠ" (in Bengali). Retrieved 10 September 2016.
Political offices
Preceded by
(new post)
Chief Minister of West Bengal
15 August 1947 – 14 January 1948
Succeeded by
Preceded by Chief Minister of West Bengal
2 November 1967 – 20 February 1968
Succeeded by
President's Rule