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Panchanan Barma

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Panchanan Barma (1865-1935) also known as Thakur Panchanan and Roy Saheb was a Rajbanshi leader and reformer from Kochbehar. He established Kshatriya Sabha in order to inculcate Brahminical values and practices among the people from Rajbanshi community.[1]

Panchanan Barma originally came from a jotedar family of Coochbehar. He studied law before started practicing at Rangpur court. In Rangpur he was shocked by the refusal of a high caste lawyer to use a toga (lawyer's gown), previously used by him.[2] In the following years, he leaded a kshatriyazation movement among Rajbanshi coomunity of Bengal.

References

  1. ^ Chatterji, Joya. Bengal divided: Hindu communalism and partition, 1932-1947.
  2. ^ Ray, Subhajyoti. Transformations on the Bengal Frontier: Jalpaiguri, 1765-1948.
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