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Prafulla Kumar Barai
Prafulla is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Prafulla Chaki (1888–1908), Bengali revolutionary associated with the Jugantar group *Prafulla Chandra Ghosh (1891–1983), the first Chief Minister of West Bengal, India *Prafulla Chandra Roy, Bengali academic, a chemist and entrepreneur *Prafulla Chandra Sen (1897–1990), Bengali Indian politician and freedom fighter *Prafulla Dahanukar (born 1934), award-winning Indian painter * Prafulla Kumar Das, Chief Minister of Tripura state, India from 1 April to 25 July 1977 *Prafulla Kumar Mahanta Prafulla Kumar Mahanta (born 23 December 1952) is an Indian politician who was the leader of the Assam Movement, and the 11th Chief Minister of Assam from 1985 to 1990 and again from 1996 to 2001 and the co-founder and former President of the ... (born 1952), leader of the Assam Movement, a former Chief Minister of Assam * Prafulla Kumar Sen, Indian revolutionary and philosopher See also * Acharya Prafulla Chandra College ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prafulla Chaki
Prafulla Chandra Chaki (, ''Prafulla Chaki'' alias Dinesh Chandra Roy) (10 December 1888 – 2 May 1908) was an Indian revolutionary associated with the Jugantar group of revolutionaries who carried out assassination attempt against British colonial official in an attempt to secure Indian independence. Prafulla and Khudiram Bose tried to assassinate the district judge, Mr. Douglas Kingsford, by throwing bombs at the carriage in which Kingsford was supposed to travel, but he was not in the carriage, and two British women were killed instead. Prafulla committed suicide when he was about to be arrested by the Police. Khudiram was arrested and tried for the murder of the two women and sentenced to death. Mahatma Gandhi denounced the violence and regretted the deaths of two women. He stated "that the Indian people will not win their freedom through these methods". However, Bal Gangadhar Tilak in his newspaper '' Kesari'', defended the two young men and called for immediate '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prafulla Chandra Ghosh
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. Early life Prafulla Chandra Ghosh was born on 24 December 1891 at a remote village, Malikanda, in Dhaka district, British India (now Bangladesh) as a son of Purna Chandra Ghosh and Binodini Devi. 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. He was awarded doctorate in 1920 in Chemistry by Calcutta University. 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 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prafulla Chandra Roy
Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray (also spelled Prafulla Chandra Roy; ''Prôphullô Côndrô Rāẏ''; 2 August 1861 – 16 June 1944) was an Indian chemist, educationist, historian, industrialist and philanthropist. He established the first modern Indian research school in chemistry (post classical age) and is regarded as the Father of Indian Chemistry. The Royal Society of Chemistry honoured his life and work with the first ever Chemical Landmark Plaque outside Europe. He was the founder of Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, India's first pharmaceutical company. He is the author of '' A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century'' (1902). Biography Family background Prafulla Chandra Ray was born in the village of Raruli-Katipara, then in Jessore District (now Dighalia, Khulna), in the eastern region of the Bengal Presidency of British India (now Bangladesh) to a Bengali Hindu family. He was the third child and son of Harish Chan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prafulla Chandra Sen
Prafulla Chandra Sen (10 April 1897 – 25 September 1990) was an Indian politician and freedom fighter. He was the Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1962 to 1967. Background Prafulla Chandra Sen was born in the village Senhati in the Khulna District of Bengal on 10 April 1897 in a Baidya family. Most of his childhood was spent in Bihar, Eastern India. He started his education in Bihar and passed the entrance exam to attend the R. Mitra Institute in Deoghar. He then went on to receive a Bachelor of Science degree from Scottish Church College in Calcutta. After graduating, he joined an accounting firm and aspired to move to England in order to become an articled clerk. His ambitions changed upon hearing Mahatma Gandhi's speech at the Calcutta session of the Congress Party in 1920. Influenced by Gandhi's speech, Sen abandoned his plans of studying abroad and rallied to Gandhi's call for a mass non-cooperation movement against the British. In 1923, Sen shifted to the area of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prafulla Dahanukar
Prafulla Dahanukar (1934 – 2014) was an Indian Painting, painter, a leader in modern Indian art who also helped and influenced many young artists in India. Biography Prafulla Dahanukar was born Prafulla Joshi in Bandora, Goa to Subrai Anant Joshi and singer Kesarbai Bandodkar, and she grew up in Mumbai. She studied Fine Art at the Sir J.J. School of Art in Mumbai and graduated with a Gold Medal in 1955. The Institute was filled with luminaries who transformed the art and culture scene in India. The Government of France awarded her a scholarship to study fine art in Paris in 1961. Dahanukar served the cause of art and painting for all her life. She was a committee member of the Lalit Kala Akademi in New Delhi from 1974 to 1979, and the President of Bombay Art Society for 11 years from 1993 to 1998 and from 2010 till her death in 2014. She was a trustee of the Jehangir Art Gallery (for over 40 years) and committee member of Kala Academy in Goa (for over 30 years). She was al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prafulla Kumar Das
Prafullah Kumar Das (born )"Illegal migrations and the North-east: a study of migrants from Bangladesh", De, Sibopada, 2005, pg. 134 was the Chief Minister of Tripura state of India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ... from 1 April 1977 to 25 July 1977. References 1930s births Living people Chief ministers of Tripura Indian National Congress politicians from Tripura Congress for Democracy politicians Tripura MLAs 1972–1977 Year of birth missing (living people) {{Tripura-INC-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prafulla Kumar Mahanta
Prafulla Kumar Mahanta (born 23 December 1952) is an Indian politician who was the leader of the Assam Movement, and the 11th Chief Minister of Assam from 1985 to 1990 and again from 1996 to 2001 and the co-founder and former President of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), a major political party in the Indian state of Assam. He was representing the Barhampur constituency in Assam Legislative Assembly from 1991 to 2021 and Nowgong constituency from 1985 to 1991. He also served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Assam Legislative Assembly from 2010 to 2014 and again from 1991 to 1996.He became the chief minister in the state when the AGP came to power in 1985, becoming the youngest Chief Minister of an Indian state. He is also a former president of the All Assam Students Union, an organization that spearheaded the Assam Movement from 1979 to 1985.In August 2005, his membership in the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) was terminated. So, he floated a new political party, Asom Gana Parisha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prafulla Kumar Sen
Prafulla Kumar Sen (died 24 March 1942), also known as Swami Satyananda Puri, was an Indian revolutionary and philosopher. Puri, had in his youth taught Oriental philosophy at the University of Calcutta and later at Rabindranath Tagore's Visva-Bharati University at Santiniketan. Encouraged by Tagore, he arrived in Thailand in 1932, and in 1939, he founded the Thai-Bharat Lodge, a cultural forum. Arriving in Thailand, Puri was appointed a professor at the Chulalongkorn University, lecturing in ancient Indian and Thai languages, and is said to have mastered the Thai Language in six months and went on to translate a number of Indian philosophical works and biographies, including the Ramayana and biographies of Gandhi to Thai. His literary work eventually was more than twenty volumes. At the onset of World War II in 1939, Puri also came to form the Indian National Council that, along with Giani Pritam Singh's Indian Independence League, was instrumental in stimulating the evolv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acharya Prafulla Chandra College
Acharya Prafulla Chandra College (APC College), also known as New Barrackpore College is a Government Higher Educational Institution (College) located in North 24 Paragana, West Bengal, India. It is one of the glorious educational institution founded on 16 August 1960, under the Dispersal Scheme with the joint participation of the State Government and Central Government name as "New Barrackpore College" has completed its 64 years of journey and achieved the status one of the best colleges in the district as well as the state West Bengal. It is affiliated with West Bengal State University. It offers co-educational 27 undergraduate and 8 postgraduate degree studies/courses for Science and Arts Subjects. The college is awarded and has been rated as Grade "A" by the Indian National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). History In 1960, Acharya Prafulla Chandra College was founded under the joint participation of State and Central Government of India with the name of New B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray Polytechnic
Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray Polytechnic is a polytechnic college located in the city of Kolkata, West Bengal of India, alongside the campus of Jadavpur University. It is affiliated to the West Bengal State Council of Technical Education (WBSCTE), approved by All India Council For Technical Education (AICTE) and provides Diploma level technical education to its students. The college is named after the scientist Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray (also spelled Prafulla Chandra Roy; ''Prôphullô Côndrô Rāẏ''; 2 August 1861 – 16 June 1944) was an Indian chemist, educationist, historian, industrialist and philanthropist. He established the first moder ....There is no hostel facility. Departments Library & Centers In the college there is a library. The students can issue trade wise text books for certain period of time. The library has also plenty of seating capacity for studying inside. Most of the text books of all departments are available ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
