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Panchanan Barma
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Panchanan Barma (1866–1935), also known as Thakur Panchanan or Panchanan Sarkar, was a Rajbanshi leader and social reformer from Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India. He dedicated his life for the improvement of backward class people, specifically for his own backward Rajbanshi community. He established a Kshatriya Sabhā (caste association) to instill Brahminical values and practices in people of his own caste. He was popularly known as the father of the Rajbanshi society.
Panchanan Barma was born in 1866 in a middle-class jotedar family at Khalisamari village of Mathabhanga subdivision, in erstwhile Cooch Behar state. He was the son of Khoshal Sarkar (father) and Champala Sarkar (mother). His father sent him to a Middle-English high school, named Mathabhanga High School for education. After passing Middle English examination from the Mathabhanga High School, he took admission into the Jenkins High School for further education and passed the High English examination. He completed his graduation in 1893 from the Victoria College (present Acharya Brojendra Nath Seal College) --then affiliated to the University of Calcutta, with a honours in Sanskrit. Later he completed his MA in Sanskrit (postgraduation degree) and LL.B (Bachelor of Laws) degree in 1897 and 1900 respectively from the University of Calcutta. He was the first M.A. and LL.B in the Rajbanshi community of not only the state of Cooch Behar but of the whole North Bengal, Assam, and Bihar.
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, caste pride was very strong among the upper-caste Hindus. The position of Rajbanshi was not respectable in the society and they faced insults and humiliations from the upper-caste Hindus. Consequently, this community developed a sense of alienation and a spirit of community solidarity. Rajbanshi Movement of Kshatriyaisation was first started in 1891 when the government tried to include Rajbanshis and Koch in the same caste category. Under the leadership of Sri Harimohon Roy Khajanchi, the Rajbanshi started their first Kshatriya movement against the census officials and claimed that they are actually Kshatriya.
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