Prafulla Chandra Ghosh

Prafulla Chandra Ghosh
Prafulla Chandra Ghosh
	Ghosh at Writers' Building in 1947
1st Premier of West Bengal
	In office; 15 August 1947 – 22 January 1948
Governor	Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
Preceded by	Office Established; (Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy as Prime Minister of Bengal)
Succeeded by	Bidhan Chandra Roy
4th Chief Minister of West Bengal
	In office; 21 November 1967 – 20 February 1968
Governor	Dharma Vira
Preceded by	Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee
Succeeded by	President's rule; (Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee as Chief Minister)
Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
	In office; 1957–1962
Preceded by	Kumar Deba Prosad Garga
Succeeded by	Sushil Kumar Dhara
Constituency	Mahisadal
	In office; 1967–1968
Preceded by	Mahendranath Mahato
Succeeded by	Panchkari De
Constituency	Jhargram
Personal details
Born	24 December 1891; Maliakanda, Bengal, British India
Died	18 December 1983 (aged 91); Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Political party	Progressive Democratic Front
Other political; affiliations	Indian National Congress Praja Socialist Party Independent
Relatives	Priyanka Yoshikawa (great-granddaughter)
Alma mater	University 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

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

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

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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Bibliography

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

^ Kantho, Kaler (September 2016). "এবার মিস জাপান হলেন বাংলাদেশি কন্যা প্রিয়াঙ্কা - কালের কণ্ঠ".
^ "দোহারের মেয়ে প্রিয়াঙ্কা হলেন মিস জাপান - daily nayadiganta". The Daily Nayadiganta.
^ "আমাদের - Kaler Kantho". www.kalerkantho.com.
^ "জাপানের সেরা সুন্দরী প্রিয়াংকা দোহারের ঘোষ পরিবারের মেয়ে - নগর-মহানগর - Jugantor". www.jugantor.com.
^ Modern Bengal A Short History of Bengal. Retrieved 18 April 2009.
^ Ghosh, Raya (10 November 2022). "How caste shaped politics in Bengal".
^ 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.
^ Ghosh, Praphullachandra (1976). Jībana-smr̥tira bhūmikā. Kalikātā: Maḍārṇa Buka Ejeṇsī. pp. 3–5. OCLC 20496530.
^ Ghosh, Praphullachandra (1976). Jībana-smr̥tira bhūmikā. Kalikātā: Maḍārṇa Buka Ejeṇsī. pp. 18–20. OCLC 20496530.
^ Ghosh, Prafulla Chandra (1960). Jiban-smritir Bhumika. pp. 21–22.
^ 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 B. C. Roy
Preceded by Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee	Chief Minister of West Bengal 2 November 1967 – 20 February 1968	Succeeded by President's Rule

[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".

[Prayer-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.

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v t e Chief Ministers of West Bengal
Premiers (1947−50)	Prafulla Chandra Ghosh (1947−48) Bidhan Chandra Roy (1948−50)
Chief Ministers (1950 onwards)	Bidhan Chandra Roy (1950−62) Prafulla Chandra Sen (1962−67) Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee (1967, 1969−70, 1971) Prafulla Chandra Ghosh (1967−68) Siddhartha Shankar Ray (1972−77) Jyoti Basu (1977−2000) Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (2000−2011) Mamata Banerjee (2011−present)