Rupram Chakrabarty (c. 17th century) was a Bengali

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 poet

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 of the Middle Ages

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 and one of the most significant contributor to Dharmamangalkavya

Dharmamangalkavya

The Dharmamangalkavya is an important sub-genre of mangalkavya, the most significant genre of medieval Bengali literature. The texts belonging to this sub-genre eulogize Dharmathakur, a folk deity worshipped in the Rarh region of Bengal. According to tradition, the earliest poet of Dharmamangal...

 tradition of mediaeval Bengali literature

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. His work, Anadi Mangal , was probably composed in 1650.

Chakrabarty was born at Kaiti-Srirampur village in modern day Bardhaman district

Bardhaman District

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 of India

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n state of West Bengal

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. His father Sriram Chakrabarty was an eminent Sanskrit

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 scholar. In his youth Chakrabarty left home and travelled many places until he settles at Eralbahadurpur village in modern day Nadia district

Nadia District

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, West Bengal

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. Legend has it that in Nadia, he met Dharmathakur

Dharmathakur

Dharmathakur is a Hindu god worshipped by villagers in the traditional Rarh region in the present day Indian state of West Bengal as one of their special village gods...

 who commanded him to compose a narrative poem in his honour. The poem, only one-third part of which is now survived, was penned at Eralbahadurpur. The manuscripts of Chakrabarty’s poem are preserved in the University of Calcutta

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 and Vangiya Sahitya Parishad

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Chakrabarty’s poem, marked by its simplicity and yet scholastic descriptions, contains a vivid picture of 17th century Bengal

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i society and the educational centres of medieval Nadia is found in his poem.