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Economic Thought of Panchanan Barma and Kshatriya Bank: A Brief Study on Historical Perspectives

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Panchanan Barma was the father of the Rajbanshi Community of Undivided North Bengal. He sacrifices his life for the society of the Rajbangshi Community. He had taken many reformation works for the recover the lost dignity of the Rajbanshi Society. He was shocked contemporary social discrimination and economic exploitation. Zamindars and moneylenders had crippled the rural economy by the rampant exploitation. In order to protect the exploited peasant society, he founded the rural agricultural Bank, namely “Kshatriya Bank”. Keep in mind that it was the first rural Agricultural Bank for the farmers.[1] He was thinking about the formation of Kshatriya Bank for the ventures of rural development.

DOI 10.11648/j.history.20150302.13
Published in History Research (Volume 3, Issue 2, March 2015)
Page(s) 35-40
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Father, Thought, Kshatriya Bank, Society, Economy, Status, Development

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[2] Mukhopadhyaya, Subodh Kumar, 2001(2nd Edition): Economic History of Bengal, Kolkata, p.2.
[3] Mukhopadhyaya, Ibid. p.3.
[4] Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi, 1396 B. S: Uponibeshik Bharater Arthoniti (in Bengali), Kolkata, p.26.
[5] Ibid.p.26.
[6] Census report of 1921.
[7] Chatterjee, S &Roy, S.G., 2006: History of Modern India (1707-1964), Kolkata, p.63.
[8] Karim, Adbul, 1963: Murshid Quli Khan and His Times, P.38, Asiatic Society of Pakistan, Dacca, p.38.
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[10] History of Modern India (1707-1964), Ibid, p.60.
[11] Bernett, Richard, 1980: Noth India Between empires: Awadh, the Mughals and the British, 1720-1801, University of California press, p.378.
[12] Bondhyopadhyay, Sekhar, 2007: From Plassey to Partion-A History of Modern India, Orient Longman, Hyderabad, p.45.
[13] Bayly, C. A., 1989: Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World, 1780-1830, Longman, London, p.10.
[14] Chandra, Bipan, 2009: History of Modern India, Orient Black Swan, Hyderabad, pp.104-105.
[15] Uponibeshik Bharater Arthoniti (in Bengali), Ibid.p.47.
[16] Adhikari, Madhab, 2010: Manishi Panchanan Barmar Arthonaitik chintabhabna-Ekti Samiksha, Smaranika, 21st Bhaoiya, pp.16-17.
[17] Bose, Swaraj, 2003: Dyanamic of a caste Movement: The Rajbangshis of North Bengal-1910-47, Delhi, pp.51-52.
[18] Singha, Kshetranath, 2004: Roy Saheb Panchanan Barmar Jeeboni (in Bengali), pp.6-8.
[19] Mukhopadhyaya, S. K., Ibid, p.148.
[20] Panchayeti Raj Patrika, 2011: p.16.
[21] Patrika, Ibid.p.17.
[22] Interview with Lilit Chandra Barman, Cooch-Behar, dt.10/10/2011.
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