Prince Sarat kumar Rai of Dighapatia
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Kumar Saratkumar Rai was a member of the royal family of Dighapatia
. A noted scholar, he was the son of the Raja (King
) Pramadanath and lived in the Maharaja's Palace. He co-founded the Varendra Research Museum
, Lord Dundas
the Governor of Bengal
, inaugurated it in November 1919. He was well travelled, visiting England in 1900 and a friend of first Bengal Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore
.
Dighapatia Raj
Dighapatia Raj was a zamindari in present day Rajshahi, which was ruled by this dynasty of 7 generations of Rajas from late seventeenth century till the mid-twentieth century; when the democratic government took power after the end of the British Monarchy’s rule in India, in 1950, the East Pakistan...
. A noted scholar, he was the son of the Raja (King
King
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) Pramadanath and lived in the Maharaja's Palace. He co-founded the Varendra Research Museum
Varendra Research Museum
Varendra Museum is a museum, research center and popular visitor attraction located at the heart of Rajshahi town and maintained by Rajshahi University in Bangladesh.-History:...
, Lord Dundas
Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland
Laurence John Lumley Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC, DL, JP , styled Lord Dundas until 1892 and Earl of Ronaldshay between 1892 and 1929, was a British Conservative politician...
the Governor of Bengal
Governor of Bengal
From 1690, a governor represented the British East India Company in Bengal, which had been granted the right to establish a trading post by the local rulers, the nawabs of Murshidabad, who were nominal vassals of the Mughal emperor in Delhi....
, inaugurated it in November 1919. He was well travelled, visiting England in 1900 and a friend of first Bengal Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...
.