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Kashiram Das

Kashiram Das was born in the village of Singi, near Katwa, in Bardhaman, in a Vaishnava kayastha family, on a date in the sixteenth century that nothing fixes; his father was called Kamalakanta, or Ramakanta according to Banglapedia. He founded and ran a small school in Midnapore and worked under the direction of his teacher Abhiram Mukhuti. His brothers were poets too, the eldest the author of a Srikrishnavilas, the youngest, Gadadhar, of a Jagannathmangal. The year of his death is unknown; its anniversary is still celebrated at Singi.

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