Bengali Community in Varanasi

Under Construction

Bengalis started to live near Dasaswamedh Ghat since the time of Pala Kings.

Resources

1- Tirtha Mangal by Bijayram Sen (1770) (তীর্থ – মঙ্গল: বিজয়রাম সেন)

“যাত্রী লয়্যা গেল ঘোষাল বাঙ্গালীটোলারে॥ অপূর্ব্ব বাঙ্গালী স্থান দেখি মহাশয়॥ ”

2- Kashi Parikrama by Joynarayan Ghosal (জয়নারায়ণ ঘোষাল son of Maharaja Krishna Chandra) (কাশী-পরিক্রমা)

“বাঙ্গালী-টোলাতে দুর্গোৎসবের শোভন। বাঙ্গালী দেশস্থ মত সর্ব্ব প্রকরণ॥”

3- Kashi Ki Panditya Parampara by Pt. Baldev Upadhyay (1983)

People

Middle Age

1. Madhusudan Saraswati
2. Kamalakar Bhattacharyya (Bhatta)
3. Nara hari Visarad
4. Vasudeva Sarbavouma
5. Vidyanivas Bhattacharyya
6. Viswanath Siddhyanta Panchanan
7. Rudra naya Vachaspati
8. Vabananda Siddhyanta Bagish
9. Ram Ram Bhattacharyya

Modern Age

1. Pt Vamacharan Bhattacharyya
2. Pt Taracharan Bhattacharyya
3. Pt Panchanan Tarkaratna
4. Sreejeev Bhattacharyya
5. Pt Haran Ch Bhattacharyya
6. Pt Yadaveswar Tarkaratna (His son Pt Vrindavan Bhattacharyya)

1-Pandit Deb Narayan Vachaspati (migrated to Varanasi from Belur) was the father-in-law of Yogiraj Sri Shyamacaharan Lahiri

2- Sri Sachindranath Sanyal, S/O Hari Nath Sanyal of Varanasi (Convicted in the Benares Conspiracy Case in 1915)

3- Prof Biswanath Bhattacharya.

4- Pandit Hari Pada Bhattacharya (Kabya Vyakaran Smrititirtha)

5- Dr Dinesh Chandra Sen

6- Harigopal Chatterjee (D34/92 Ganesh Mohalla)

7- Umesh Chandra Sanyal (Co-founder of Bangali Tola College)

8- Prof Gopinath Koviraj (গোপীনাথ কবিরাজ S/O Vaikuntha Nath Bagchi)

9- Chintamani Mukherjee ( Founder of C.M. Anglo Bengali College-1898)

10- Pt Aditya Ram Bhattacharyya

Places

Bengali Tola (বাঙালি টোলা)

Ganesh Muhalla

Godowlia

Jagambadi

Pandeyhaveli

Sonarpura

Institutions

1. Joy Narayan Ghosal Inter College
2. Chintamani Babu College
3. Bengali Tola Inter College

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