kinkar Mukherjee and his mother was rajlakshmi Mukherjee. Mukherjee attended the Suri Vidyasagar College in Suri (Birbhum)‚ and then affiliated with the University of Calcutta. His hobbies are reading‚ gardening and music. He is Master of Arts degree in Political Science and History‚ as well as a degree in law from the University of Calcutta.. Pranab Mukherjee married Suvra Mukherjee on 13 July 1957. The couple have two sons and a daughter. A son‚ Abhijit Mukherjee‚ is a Congress MLA from West Bengal
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SATI ABOLISHED… December 5‚ 1829 ‚ Calcutta‚ PTI. Yesterday after the debate of 11 years ‚ The sati regulation Act which declared the practice of sati‚ or suttee‚ or of burning or burying alive the widows of Hindus‚ illegal and punishable by the criminal courts by Lord William Bentinck.‚ governor general of all of British-ruled India. In 1817‚ Mritunjaya Vidyalamkara‚ chief pundit of the Supreme Court in Calcutta announced that sati had no sanction in the ancient texts and‚ in 1818‚ Lord William
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June-December 1689 and 1716-19 are available online in their entirety here. [UMichigan] The charter of 1726 establishing the first Royal courts in India * This Crown charter replaced the Mayor’s Court in Madras and the ad hoc courts in Bombay and Calcutta with a new set of English legal institutions. The charter of 1753 revising that of 1726 and restricting access to the Royal Courts. * The revised charter of 1753 largely maintained the 1726 system of English courts but added a court of requests
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Henry Louis Vivian Derozio Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (18 April 1809 – 26 December 1831) was a fiery Indian teacher and poet. As a lecturer at the Hindu College of Calcutta‚ he invigorated a large group of students to think independently; this Young Bengal group played a key role in the Bengal renaissance. Derozio was generally considered an Anglo-Indian‚ being of mixed Portuguese descent‚ but he was fired by a patriotic spirit for his native Bengal‚ and considered himself Indian. In his poem To
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dying around the world‚ particularly those in India. introduction Mother Teresa is among the most well-known and highly respected women in the world in the latter half of the twentieth century. In 1948 she founded a religious order of nuns in Calcutta‚ India‚ called the Missionaries of Charity. Through this order‚ she has dedicated her life to helping the poor‚ the sick‚ and the dying around the world‚ particularly those in India. Her selfless work with the needy has brought her much acclaim and
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first contacts with members of the Muslim middle class in Calcutta. I am deeply indebted to them. Many of my contacts in Bangladesh‚ in turn‚ came through the personal networks of the women I interviewed in Calcutta. I am grateful for the hospitality of Mrs. Kishwar Jahan Quader‚ Mrs. Zeenat Ameen‚ Mrs. Selina Hossein‚ Mr. Akbar Hossein‚ Mr. Reza Ali and Mrs. Nayeema Ali‚ Susan Lee‚ Nripen and Meena Sarkar‚ who opened their homes to me in Calcutta and Dhaka. My parents‚ Bhabani Bhusan and Lily Sarkar
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which is and issue that many newcomers face. “Mrs. Sen’s” is a story about a young boy‚ Eliot‚ who is babysat by an Indian woman from Calcutta. As the story progresses‚ Eliot learns that Mrs. Sen lives a very different life than he does. He watches Mrs. Sen struggle to adapt to life in America‚ since it is very different than her life was in Calcutta. In Calcutta‚ Mrs. Sen was near her family‚ and now all she has to look forward to is the “arrival of a letter from her family” (Lahiri‚ 121). She also
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Collector also worked as Judge in the district Mofussil Diwani Adalat to decide civil cases‚ succession cases and land related cases like boundaries etc. Revenue Court was known as mal Adalat .Appeals from mal Adalat went to the Board of Revenue at Calcutta. And it finally went to the Governor General. In Diwani Adalat appeals in the cases where matters involving more than one thousand rupees went to the Sadar Diwani Adalat‚ where Governor General and council handled the cases. Appeal from Sadar
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for higher studies.. This paper throws light on the cross cultural conflict of the 22-year old heroine when she revisits India after a seven year stay in the United States. It highlights the cultural turmoil faced by Tara when she refuses to accept Calcutta as her home again. This paper also analyses how Tara‚ caught in a gulf between the two contrasting worlds‚ leads to her illusion‚ depression‚ and finally her tragic end. The author also attempts to portray how the novelist herself intimately projects
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January‚ 1863 in Calcutta. His family name was Narendranath Dutta. His father Vishwanath Dutta was a learned man who was well- versed in English and Persian. By profession‚ he was a successful Attorney-at-law in the High Court of Calcutta. His mother was a pious lady who influenced Naren since his childhood in the formation of his character. She first taught Naren English lesson‚ and then made him acquainted with Bengali alphabets. Naren studied in the Metropolitan Institution at Calcutta; and after
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