Kaliprasanna Singha

Kaliprasanna Singha was born in 1840 in Calcutta, into a wealthy landowning family of Jorasanko, and was educated at home by European tutors and pandits. At thirteen he founded the Vidyotsahini Sabha, a learned society, then a theatre where he himself played the leading roles. He supported the Hindoo Patriot, in 1861 paid the fine of one thousand rupees imposed on the missionary James Long, promised the same sum to anyone who would marry a widow, and had the Mahabharata translated into Bengali by a team of pandits, which he distributed free of charge at great loss. He died in Calcutta in 1870.

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