| 词条 | Rajnarayan Basu |
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| name = Rajnarayan Basu | image = Rajnarain Bose.jpg | image_size = | caption = | native_name = রাজনারায়ণ বসু | native_name_lang = bn | birth_date = 1826 | birth_place = Boral, 24 Parganas, Bengal, British India | death_date = 1899 | death_place = Midnapore, Bengal, British India | occupation = Writer | spouse = | nationality = Indian }}Rajnarayan Basu ({{lang-bn|রাজনারায়ণ বসু}}) (1826–1899) was an Indian writer and intellectual of the Bengal Renaissance. He was born in Boral in 24 Parganas and studied at the Hare School and Hindu College, both premier institutions in Kolkata, Bengal at the time. A monotheist at heart, Rajnarayan Basu converted to Brahmoism at the age of twenty.[1] After retiring, he was given the honorary title of Rishi or sage. As a writer, he was one of the best known prose writers in Bengali in the nineteenth century, writing often for the Tattwabodhini Patrika, a premier Brahmo journal.[2] Due to his defence of Brahmoism, he was given the title "Grandfather of Indian Nationalism"[3][4] Birth and early lifeRajnarayan Basu was born on 7 September 1826 in the Borhal village of South 24 Parganas of West Bengal. His father Nanda Kishore Basu was a disciple of a Raja Ram Mohan Roy and later one of his secretaries. A bright student since childhood, Rajnarayan was brought to Calcutta (modern Kolkata) and was admitted to Hare School Society's School (later known as Hare School). He studied there till the age of 14, and was notified by the teachers for his brilliance and intellect. CareerRajnarayan Basu was an enemy of Michael Madhusudan Dutt, a prominent poet of the time, and the introducer of free verse in Bengali. Both were responsible for introducing classical Western elements into Bengali literature.[1] He briefly tutored Asia's first Nobel Prizewinner, Rabindranath Tagore and spent three years translating the Upanishads into English on the earnest request and co-operation of Devendranath Tagore. As a member of Young Bengal, Rajnarayan Basu believed in "nation-building" at the grassroots level. To do his part, after teaching at Vidyasagar's Sanskrit College as the second master of the English Department, he moved to Midnapore to teach in the mofussil district town.[1] He served as the headmaster of Midnapore Zilla School (later known as Midnapore Collegiate School) which was also the forerunner of Midnapore College. Work life in MidnaporeHe had joined the school on 21 February 1851 preceded by Mr. Sinclare, during whose time the school lost its glory and was in a deplorable condition. Rajnarayan's first goal was to reestablish the school in the firmament of education. The great teacher and educationist took some wonderful steps:
He also established the first arch of women education in Midnapore, the first girls school and a night school for educating the illiterates. He established a public library that is still in use, although now it is known as the Rishi Rajnarayan Basu Smriti Pathagar (Rishi Rajnaraya Basu Memorial Library) which is the oldest public library in West Bengal. He was the first person to suggest using Bengali at meetings of the Vangiya Sahitya Parishad (Bengali literature society).[5] The Parishad was established to promote Bengali language literature yet ironically conducted meetings in English until Basu's request. As an intellectual, he founded the Brahmo Samaj house and inaugurated Nabagopal Mitra's Hindu Mela, an organisation created to spread nationalist feelings among Indians.[1] He was a member of the Indian Association and a member of a political group called the Sanjibani Sabha. He also lamented that there were no schools promoting the learning of Indian music among the middle-class[6] and he himself started one in Midnapore. In 1868, he retired and moved to Deoghar where he spent the last years of his life. His grandson, eminent philosopher and freedom-fighter, Sri Aurobindo has inscribed his tribute to Rajnarayan in a beautiful sonnet. {{Quote box| title = My Grandfather—Rajnarayan Bose[1826–1899] | quote = To darkness art thou fled from us and light, O strong and sentient spirit; no more heaven of ancient joys, no silence eremite received thee; but the omnipresent thought of which thou was a part and earthly hour, took back its gift. Into that splendour caught thou hast no lost thy special brightness.Power remains with thee and old genial force unseen for blinding light; not darkly larks; as when a sacred river in its course dives into ocean, there its strength abides Not less because with because with vastness wed and works unnoticed in the grandeur of the tides. | source = Sri Aurobindo }} Select bibliographyIn Bengali
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TriviaRajnarayan Basu was the maternal grandfather of Sri Aurobindo. He was the maternal grandfather of Sri Aurobindo, whose mother was Swarnalata Bose (married to Dr.Krishnadhan Ghose) References1. ^1 2 3 {{cite book |last=Murshid |first=Ghulam |year=2012 |chapter=Basu, Rajnarayan |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Basu,_Rajnarayan |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=Asiatic Society of Bangladesh}} 2. ^{{cite book |last=Devnath |first=Samaresh |year=2012 |chapter=Tattvabodhini Patrika |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Tattvabodhini_Patrika |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=Asiatic Society of Bangladesh}} 3. ^"The Brahmo Samaj and the shaping of the modern Indian mind By David Kopf", page 315, https://books.google.com/books?id=IUcY_IRKDHQC&pg=PA315 4. ^"Makers Of Indian Literature Prem Chand By Prakash Chandra Gupta", back cover, https://books.google.com/books?id=DuoHFioSmBoC&pg=PT1 5. ^{{cite book |last=Chaudhuri |first=Indrajit |year=2012 |chapter=Sahitya Parisad Patrika |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Sahitya_Parisad_Patrika |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=Asiatic Society of Bangladesh}} 6. ^Microsoft Word – front.doc {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061107121653/http://www.lib.utexas.edu/etd/d/2003/kobayashie032/kobayashie032.pdf |date=7 November 2006 }} External links
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