Shibnath Shastri

Shibnath Shastri was born on 31 January 1847 in Changripota, at the home of his maternal uncle Dwarakanath Vidyabhushan, who edited the newspaper Somprakash. A Master of Arts of the Sanskrit College in 1872, from which he took his title, he had joined Keshab Sen's Brahmo Samaj in 1869 and launched a monthly against alcohol in 1870. He taught in a school for adult women, left a government post and founded the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj in 1878, then schools and a students' association, and edited the children's magazine Mukul. He died in Calcutta on 30 September 1919.

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• EssayRamtanu Lahiri, Brahman and Reformerরামতনু লাহিড়ী ও তৎকালীন বঙ্গসমাজShibnath Shastri · 1904Literature