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Chakraborty (spelling variations include Chakraborti, Chakrabarti, Chakrabarty and Chakravarty) is a surname of Bengali Hindus and Assamese Hindus of India and Bangladesh, which literally means 'wheels rolling'; metaphorically it denotes a ruler whose chariot wheels roll everywhere without obstruction (čakra 'wheel' + vart-'to roll'). [1]
Biharilal Chakraborty (Bengali: বিহারীলাল চক্রবর্তী) was a Bengali poet and music composer. He is often considered as the pioneer of musical poetry in Bengali literature. Rabindranath Tagore was influenced by the works of Biharilal Chakraborty and named him "Morning Bird" of Bengali literature. [1] [2]
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"Protest and Accommodation: Two Caste Movements in Eastern and Northern Bengal, c1872–1937", The Indian Historical Review, XIV (1–2) (1990), pp. 219–33. "Caste in the Perception of the Raj: A Note on the Evolution of Colonial Sociology of Bengal", Bengal Past and Present, CIV, Parts I–II (198–199) (January–December 1985), pp. 56–80.
The Hindu community in Bengal was divided into only two varnas: Brahmins and Shudras.Hence, although the Bengali Kayasthas and Baidyas had a high social status along with Brahmins, their ritual status was low, according to Edmund Leach, S. N. Mukherjee, [20] though it seems their ritual status is a subject of dispute as per other historians.
Sarat Chandra was born to Ramkamal Chakravarty and Vidhumukhi Devi in the village Kotapada in the district Faridpur in erstwhile Bengal province (now Bangladesh) on the Hindu holy day of Sivaratri on 21 February 1868.
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Bengali Brahmins are the community of Hindu Brahmins, who traditionally reside in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, currently comprising the Indian state of West Bengal and the country of Bangladesh. The Bengali Brahmins, along with Baidyas and Kayasthas, are regarded among the three traditional higher castes of Bengal. [1]