Rupram Chakrabarty ( bn, রূপরাম চক্রবর্তী) (c. 17th century) was a

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and one of the most significant contributor to Dharmamangalkavya tradition of mediaeval

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. His work, ''Anadi Mangal'' ( bn, অনাদিমঙ্গল), was probably composed in 1650. Chakrabarty was born at Kaiti-Srirampur village in modern-day

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. His father Sriram Chakrabarty was an eminent

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scholar. In his youth Chakrabarty left home and travelled many places until he settles at Eralbahadurpur village in modern-day

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. Legend has it that in Nadia, he met

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who commanded him to compose a narrative poem in his honour. The poem, only one-third part of which is now survived, was penned at Eralbahadurpur. The manuscripts of Chakrabarty’s poem are preserved in the

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and Vangiya Sahitya Parishad.Bandyopadhyay, Asit Kumar (1993), p. 336. Chakrabarty’s poem, marked by its simplicity and yet scholastic descriptions, contains a vivid picture of 17th century

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i society and the educational centres of medieval Nadia is found in his poem.

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