PRASANNA MANDIR - HISTORY
KULDEVI SREE SREE ISWAR PRASANNAMOYEE
KALIMATA THAKURANI INSTRUCTED SMARTA RARHI KULIN BRAHMIN, SRI SARAT CHANDRA CHATTOPADHYAYA AND HIS SISTER SRIMATI PRASANNAMOYEE DEVI (W/O: SRI HARANATH BANDYOPADHYAYA- MANAGER OF DWARBHANGA ESTATE), IN THEIR DREAMS TO BRING HER IDOL FROM BENARAS AND START HER WORSHIP IN THIS PREMISES-
WHICH COMPRISED 6/2 GOPE LANE AND 7 GOPE LANE, AND WAS TOGETHER ADDRESSED AS 7
GOALTULLI LANE, INTALLY, CALCUTTA- 700014. KALIMATA THAKURANI EVEN MENTIONED
THE ADDRESS OF THE SHOP WHERE SARAT WOULD FIND HER IDOL, AND THE WAYS IN WHICH
SARAT WOULD RECOGNIZE HER AMONG VARIOUS IDOLS WHICH THE SCULPTOR HAD CRAFTED (MAA WOULD BE THE SINGLE IDOL FACING SOUTH IN THE SHOP AT BENARAS). WITHIN NEXT FEW DAYS, THE IDOL MAKER, A MUSLIM CRAFTSMAN, CAME TO 7 GOALTULLI LANE AND
REPORTED THAT HE HAD BEEN INSTRUCTED IN HIS DREAM BY KALIMATA THAKURANI THAT HER FAMILY IS BEING LATE TO TAKE HER HOME DUE TO CERTAIN UNPRECEDENTED CIRCUMSTANCES AND THAT HE SHOULD HANDOVER HER TO HER SERVITOR AT HER OWN RESIDENCE- ADDRESS OF 7 GOALTULLI LANE, CALCUTTA. SARAT PURCHASED THE TOUCHSTONE IDOL WITH
THE SAME PRICE AS REQUESTED BY THE SCULPTOR WITHOUT BARGAINING EVEN ONCE (THOUGH INITIALLY THE SCULPTOR DIDN’T WANT TO TAKE
ANY AMOUNT AT ALL, AND WAS ASKED BY SARAT TO REQUEST A PRICE, AS PER HINDOO CUSTOM). IT WAS THEN THAT SARAT KEPT MAA IN A TRUNK. AGAIN KULDEVI APPEARED
IN HIS DREAMS AND SAID THAT HER BREATH WAS GETTING CHOCKED. SARAT IMMEDIATELY
TOOK THE IDOL OUT OF TRUNK AND ESTABLISHED HER IN THIS HOLY PREMISES OF 7 GOPE LANE IN 1919.
LATER PRASANNAMOYEE DEVI AND SARAT BEQUEATHED
THEIR NIECE SRIMATI NAGENDRABALA DEVI (W/O: SRI CHANDRANATH
BANDYOPADHYAY OF BENIATOLA, CALCUTTA AND BANERJEE PARA, AKNA, HOOGHLY DISTRICT , WEST
BENGAL), THE PORTION OF 6/2 GOPE LANE. 7 GOPE LANE WAS MADE THE TRUST PREMISES
(DEBOTTAR ESTATE) OF SREE SREE ISWAR PRASANNAMOYEE KALIMATA THAKURANI IN THE
YEAR OF 1938. THAKURANI HAS BEEN ETERNALLY WORSHIPPED WITH THE FLOWERS OF
‘KAATTH CHAPA- GULANCHA’ TREE (EVEN IF OTHER FLOWERS ARE ABSENT) PRESENT IN THE NORTH
EASTERN SIDE OF PRASANNA MANDIR.
SARAT WAS AN INITIATED DISCIPLE OF RAMAKRISHNA MISSION, BELUR, AND INFLUENCED BY THE LIVES OF HOUSEHOLDER DISCIPLES LIKE 'MASTER MAHASHAY' SRI MAHENDRANATH GUPTA (COMPOSER OF SRI SRI RAMAKRISHNA KATHAMRITA).
IT MUST BE MENTIONED THAT PRASANNA MANDIR HAS FOUR RESEMBLANCES TO KATHAMRITA BHAWAN SITUATED AT 33/2 GURUPRASAD CHOWDHURY LANE, KOLKATA- 700006. BOTH THE THAKUR BARIS ARE LOCATED IN A NARROW LANE AND ARE MODEST IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNS- SIGNIFYING NON-EXHIBITIONIST ATTITUDE TOWARDS LIFE. BOTH HAVE A GULANCHA TREE TO SERVE GOD FOR DAILY WORSHIP. BOTH THE FAMILIES BELIEVES IN RESIDING IN MAA'S ABODE AS A SERVITOR. THE CHATTERJEE FAMILY STRICTLY BELIEVE IN PERPETUATING THE PROGENY OF HOUSEHOLDER DEVOTEES, MUCH LIKE THAKUR WANTED OUT OF THE MASTER.
ENTALLY, SIMILAR TO JHAMAPUKUR, IS A PLACE BLESSED WITH THE MOTHER'S FOOTPRINTS. HOLY MOTHER VISITED DEBENDRANATH MAJUMDAR'S HOUSE AT DEB LANE. OTHER REVERED PERSONALITIES WHO HAD SETTLED AT ENTALLY ARE RASHMONI'S ELDER DAUGHTER PADMAMONI DASI, POET AND NATIONALIST KAJI NAJRUL ISLAM (PREVIOUSLY PAN BAGAN, LATER CHRISTOPHER ROAD), HENRY LOUIS VIVIAN DEROZIO, DR. SURESH SARKAR, P.C.CHANDRA, R.K.CHANDRA, ANJAN DUTT, DIGHAPATIA MAHARAJ, RABINDRANATH TAGORE'S ELDER DAUGHTER- MADHURILATA DEVI (BELA)- AND SON IN-LAW SARAT CHAKRABORTY- TO NAME A FEW. TAGORE EVEN STAYED AT ENTALLY FOR A MONTH BY THE SIDE OF BELA, BEFORE HER DEMISE.
IN SHORT, AS IMPARTED BY PRASANNAMOYEE DEVI, THE SHEBAIT FAMILY OR THE CHATTERJEES OF PRASANNA MANDIR, BELIEVE IN LEADING A SIMPLE NON-EXHIBITIONIST 'GRIHASTA' FAMILY LIFE DEDICATED TO MAA, MAINTAINING MAA'S OWN ABODE 'PRASANNA MANDIR' AND THEIR BLOODLINE TO CONTINUE THE PRACTICE OF SERVING MAA SPANNING ACROSS GENERATIONS.
SARAT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST BENGALI TO BE WORKING IN THE STATE BANK OF INDIA, BURRA BAZAR BRANCH- FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE BANK OF BENGAL AND THEN THE IMPERIAL BANK OF INDIA. SARAT’S WIFE WAS SRIMATI THAKOMONI DEVI (OF MUKHERJEE FAMILY IN NIBRA, NEAR KANTLIA, HOOGHLY). SARAT HAD TWO SONS, NAMELY, SRI
TULSI CHARAN CHATTOPADHYAYA AND SRI MANMATHANATH
CHATTOPADHYAYA. TULSI AND DULICHAND (TULSI’S COUSIN) MARKED THE SECOND
GENERATION OF THE FAMILY IN S.B.I.
SARAT WAS THE GRANDSON OF MUKTARAM AND THE YOUNGEST SON OF KAIILASH CHANDRA. HE WAS FORMERLY THE INHABITANT OF JEJUR VILLAGE (UNDER HARIPAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK) OF HOOGHLY DISTRICT. SRI KAILASH CHANDRA CHATTOPADHYAYA HAD SEND HIS FOUR SONS TO
CALCUTTA IN THE CUSTODY OF HIS BROTHER IN-LAW (SISTER'S HUSBAND) SRI KRISTO MOHON GANGOOLY),
WHO USED TO RESIDE IN 47, SAKHARITOLLA LANE, BOWBAZAR, CALCUTTA- 700012 ( PRESENTLY, 21, MAHENDRA SARKAR STREET, KOLKATA- 700012).
KAILASH HAD FOUR SONS, NAMELY, SRI
CHINTAMONEE CHATTOPADHYAYA, SRI ABINASH CHANDRA GANGOPADHYAYA, SRI NATABAR PRASAD CHATTOPADHYAYA
AND SRI SARAT CHANDRA CHATTOPADHAYA AND FOUR DAUGHTERS (THE ELDEST OF THEM WAS
MARRIED IN BONDIPUR JAMINDAR FAMILY, THE SECOND ONE WAS
PRASANNAMOYEE, THE THIRD DAUGHTER WAS MARRIED TO ‘GANGULY
BARI’ OF KALIGHAT – NEAR NAKULESHWARTOLLA, AND THE FOURTH DAUGHTER WAS
MARRIED TO SRI SHIB CHANDRA BANDYOPADHYAYA OF
DAKSHIN JHAPORDAH VILLAGE, DOMJUR, WEST BENGAL).
KAILASH’S THIRD DAUGHTER’S SON WAS SRI NANDO GANGULY AND NANDO’S SON WAS SRI THAKO GANGULY. THEY WERE SERVITORS OF KALIGHAT
TEMPLE. SHIBCHANDRA’S SONS WERE SRI SURENDRANATH
BANDYOPADHYAYA AND ‘JYOTIN’.
CHINTAMONEE HAD REMARRIED AFTER THE DEMISE OF HIS FIRST WIFE. HE AVAILED A RENTED RESIDENCE NEAR SEALDAH AT 48 SANKARITOLLA EAST LANE (PRESENTLY SANKARITOLLA STREET) WHICH IS NOW THE THAKUR SITARAM JEW TEMPLE (AFTER PURCHASE AND RENOVATION BY ONE SHITAL CHANDRA BANERJEE). THIS HOUSE WAS FORMERLY CALLED THE 'SINGHAWALA BARI', AS IT HOUSES TWO LION STATUES ON BOTH SIDES OF ITS PORTICO. THE PORTICO ALSO ADORNES FAIRIES ON ITS TOP. THIS HOUSE WAS PREVIOUSLY A 'THANA' OR A POLICE STATION, AND EVEN DURING CHINTAMONEE'S TIMES- THERE STILL EXISTED ONE ROOM WHICH USED AN IRON GRILLED DOOR- TYPICAL OF A THANA.
NAGENDRABALA DEVI WAS THE DAUGHTER FROM CHINTAMONEE'S FIRST WIFE. SRI GAURI SHANKAR
CHATTOPADYAYA, ‘DOLTON’ (PASSED AWAY
AT AN EARLY AGE) AND SRIMATI PADMA DEVI WERE HIS
CHILDREN FROM HIS SECOND MARRIAGE. GAURI SHANKAR HAD FOUR SONS, NAMELY, SRI PRABHAT KUSUM CHATTOPADHYAYA (‘MONI’), SRI SARAJ KUSUM
CHATTOPADHYAYA (‘LILTU’), SRI PANKAJ KUSUM CHATTOPADHYAYA (‘BHILU’) AND SADANANDA
(EXPIRED AT A EARLY AGE OF 5-6 YEARS), AND ONE DAUGHTER ‘MILU’ DEVI. PADMA HAD A DAUGHTER, SRIMATI LAKSHMI
DEVI, AND A SON NAMED NEPAL (UNMARRIED). LAKSHMI HAD A DAUGHTER NAMED ‘PUTUL’.
PANKAJ WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CULTURE, ENTALLY. THEY LATER SHIFTED TO THEIR SHARE OF SHIBPUR'S HOUSE BUILT BY NATABAR CHATTERJEE (NEAR KSHETRA MOHAN BANERJEE LANE).
ABINASH WAS ADOPTED BY KRISTOMOHON GANGOOLY. HE HAD TWO SONS, NAMELY, SRI KALI CHARAN GANGULY
AND SRI HARI NARAYAN GANGULY). THE GANGOOLY FAMILY PURCHASED MULTIPLE HOUSES IN CALCUTTA FROM ENGLISH LANDHOLDERS WITH BRITISH TENANTS, AS AN ADDITIONAL SOURCE OF INCOME FROM RENT. THEY ALSO MAINTAINED THEIR 'TEJARATI'- BUSINESS OF PROVIDING MORTGAGE LOANS. AS MOST OF THESE HOUSES WERE OCCUPIED BY BRITISH TENANTS, THEY WERE LATER TAKEN OVER BY
THE TENANTS IN SEVERAL LEGAL SUITS ACCOUNTING TO SEVERE FINANCIAL CRUNCH. SARAT CHATTERJEE WAS THE LEGAL GUARDIAN OF HARI GANGULY IN THOSE SUITS. ABINASH’S DESCENDANTS LATER SHIFTED TO A
HOUSE IN PAIKPARA, CALCUTTA, LEAVING SANKARITOLLA AFTER ABINASH'S DEMISE. THEIR RELATIVE NRITYAKALI DEVI ( W/O GOPAL CHANDRA GANGOOLY RETAINED POSSESSION OF SANKARITOLLA'S HOUSE A BIT LONGER. THE GANGOOLY'S WERE NEIGHBOURS OF DR. MAHENDRALAL SARKAR, INDIA'S FIRST MD AND THAKUR SRI RAMAKRISHNA DEV'S DOCTOR.
NATABAR WAS THE THIRD SON OF KAILASH AND SHIFTED TO A HOUSE IN SHIBPUR, HOWRAH. HE WAS SURVIVED BY HIS THREE SONS, 'POTLA', JIBON AND SRI DULAL CHATTOPADHYAYA.
SARAT WAS THE YOUNGEST OF KAILASH'S CHILDREN AND WAS BROUGHT UP HIS 'MEJ DIDI' PRASANNA MOYEE DEVI AND AFTER THAKOMONI'S DEATH, SARAT'S CHILDREN WERE EVEN BROUGHT UP BY HIS SISTER PRASANNAMOYEE DEVI. KULOPUROHIT OF KAILASH CHANDRA'S BRANCH WAS BHABANI CHARAN BHATTACHARYA OF INTALLY CHATUSPATHI ( 21, DEB LANE, INTALLY, OPPOSITE PADMAPUKUR PARK).
IT'S TO BE MENTIONED THAT SARAT HAD CUSTODY OF MULTIPLE HOUSES AND FLATS ON BEHALF OF ABINASH GANGOOLY AND HIS HEIRS, LIKE ONE IN 47, SANKARITOLLA, (PRESENTLY 21 MAHENDRA SARKAR STREET, KOLKATA- 700012), ONE IN BENARAS, ONE NEAR SEALDAH AT THE JUNCTION OF SURI LANE (FORMERLY SOORIE TANK'S PATH LANE) AND SANKARITOLLA STREET (FORMERLY, SANKARITOLLA EAST LANE OR MIRZAPORE LANE). THE ONE IN SANKARITOLLA WAS USED FOR RESIDENTIAL PURPOSE BY THE GANGOOLYS AND THE OTHERS WERE INITIALLY EITHER RENTED OUT, OR USED FOR VACATION PURPOSES.
IT SHOULD BE NOW MENTIONED THE WAYS IN WHICH 7 GOALTULLI
LANE, INTALLY, BECAME THE RESIDENCE OF THE CHATTERJEE FAMILY. THE FOLLOWING ARE
THE TITLE DEEDS WHICH CLEARLY POINTS OUT THE MATTER.
1.
CONVEYANCE DATED 16TH MAGH, 1245 OR
28TH JANUARY, 1839, EXECUTED BY NOBO KUMAR MUKHOPADHYAYA IN FAVOUR
OF SAMBHU CHANDRA GHOSH AND SHIB CHANDRA GHOSH.
2.
CONEYANCE DATED 27TH BAISAKH, 1250
B.S. OR 9TH MAY, 1843 BY SAMBHU CHANDRA GHOSH AND SATYA KAMINI BEWA,
WIDOW OF SHIB CHANDRA GHOSH, IN FAVOUR OF HARRU GHOSH.
3.
LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION GRANTED BY THE
DISTRICT JUDGE OF 24 PERGUNNAHS TO JAHNABI DEBI, WIDOW OF SURYA KUMAR GHOSH, IN
CASE NO. 276 OF 1894 UNDER ACT V OF 1881, UNDER ORDER DATED 16TH
FEBRUARY, 1895.
4.
GUARDIANSHIP CERTIFICATE TO RAJENDRA CHANDRA PAL
REGARDING THE MINOR SONS OF SURYA KUMAR GHOSH, GRANTED BY THE DISTRICT JUDGE OF
24 PERGUNNAHS IN CASE NO. 54 OF 1903 UNDER ACT VIII OF 1890 UNDER ORDER DATED 3RD
APRIL 1903.
5.
PETITION BY RAJENDRA CHANDRA PAL FOR PERMISSION
TO SELL 7 GOALTULLI LANE FILED BEFORE THE DISTRICT JUDGE OF 24 PERGUNNAHS ON 27TH
MAY, 1905 IN CASE NO. 
OF 1895.
OF 1895.
6.
THE DISTRICT JUDGE’S ORDER PERMITTING SALE DATED
31ST MAY, 1905.
7.
AGGREMENT FOR SALE DATED 15TH
BAISAKH, 1312, EXECUTED BY RAJENDRA CHANDRA PAL IN FAVOUR OF NAGENDRABALA DEVI
AND SARAT CHANDRA CHATTOPADHYAYA.
8.
REGISTERED CONVEYANCE DATED 26TH
AUGUST, 1905, EXECUTED BY RAJENDRA CHANDRA PAL IN FAVOUR OF SRIMATI
NAGENDRABALA DEVI AND SARAT CHANDRA CHATTOPADHYAYA.
SRIMATI NAGENDRABALA DEVI AND SRI SARAT CHANDRA
CHATTOPADHYAYA APPROACHED ARBITRATOR SRI NAGENDRANATH CHATTERJEE IN MAY, 1912
TO PARTITION 7 GOPE LANE, INTALLY, EQUALLY. ON 15TH DECEMBER, 1912,
A FORMAL DEED OF AGREEMENT WAS SIGNED AND NAGENDRABALA DEVI PAID PRASANNAMOYEE
AN ADDITIONAL SUM OF Rs. 200. ON 9TH FEBRUARY, 1913, 7 GOPE LANE,
INTALLY, WAS FINALLY PARTITIONED WITH NAGENDRABALA DEVI OBTAINING 6/2 GOPE
LANE, AND SARAT RETAINING THE FORMER ADDRESS WITH THE PARTITIONED HALF
COMPRISING 1 COTTAH 8 CHITTAKS.
THE PLAN OF SHEWING CONVERSION OF THE EXISTING SLOPING
ROOF ABOVE THE OLD STAIRCASE ADJACENT TO THE LATER BUILT ‘THAKUR GHAR’ WAS
SANCTIONED ON 26TH JUNE, 1921. THE UPPER STOREY OF 7 GOPE LANE WAS
SANCTIONED ON 14TH SEPTEMBER, 1923.
IT WAS SRIMATI PRASANNAMOYEE DEVI (DIED ON 19TH
JANUARY, 1928) WHO PURCHASED THE UNDIVIDED ONE STOREY 3 COTTAH PROPERTY (WHICH COSTED Rs. 2500/-) BY A
KOBALA OF 1905 IN THE BENAMI OF HER BROTHER SARAT, AND THE LATTER GOT THE
PROPERTY BY FORCE OF HER WILL (DATED 29TH BAISAKH, 1329 B.S.) THAT
AFTER HER DEATH THE PROBATE WAS GRANTED TO HIM, IN CASE NO. 43 OF 1928. SINCE
HER DEATH, SARAT HAD BEEN IN EXCLUSIVE JURIDICIAL POSSESSION OF THE PROPERTY.
LATER SARAT ASKED HIS SONS, TULSI AND MANMATHANATH, TO
LEAVE THE HOUSE ON 6TH OCTOBER, 1932, AND THEN AGAIN IN FEBRUARY,
1933. THAT ON REFUSAL SARAT FILED A LAW SUIT ASKING THEM TO LEAVE. SARAT GOT
KHAS POSSESSION OF THE PROPERTY, EJECTING TULSI AND MANMATHANATH ON 27TH
JULY 1934, ACCORDING TO THE DECISION OF TITLE SUIT NO.172 OF 1933. SRI DURGA
PRASANNA PAL WAS THE THEN SUBJUDGE OF SECOND COURT, ALIPUR.
MITTRA AND COMPANY (4/1 PEARY MOHAN SEN GARDEN LANE,
CALCUTTA) LAID THE PLAN OF ‘TAGORE GAR’ ON 13TH JULY, 1936. THE PLAN
WAS SANCTIONED BY THE CORPORATION OF CALCUTTA, BUILDING DEPARTMENT, DIST.III,
ON 24TH SEPTEMBER, 1936.
THAKURANI WAS ESTABLISHED IN THE THAKUR GHAR IN THE FIRST
FLOOR AND SRI TULSI CHARAN CHATTOPADHYAYA ACCOMPANIED SARAT IN HER ‘PRAN PRATISTHA’ ACCORDING TO
HIS FATHER’S WISH IN THE ‘MAGHI PURNIMA’ OF 1345 B.S. TULSI PASSED AWAY ON 12TH
KARTIK, 1347 B.S. AT THE AGE OF 39 YEARS.
FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROPERLY AND EFFECTUALLY CARRYING ON
THE SEVA OR WORSHIP OF DEITY SREE SREE ISWAR PRASANNAMOYEE KALIMATA THAKURANI,
SARAT TRANSFER ASSIGNED AND DEDICATED UNTO THE DEITY ALL THE HOUSE PROPERTY AND
A CERTAIN SUM OF MONEY. SARAT BECAME THE FIRST SHEBAIT OF THE DEITY AND AFTER
HIM HIS GRANDSON SAILENDRANATH WAS ASSIGNED AS THE NEXT SHEBAIT. HENCE 7 GOPE
LANE, ENTALLY, WAS CONVERTED INTO A TRUST PREMISE ON 18TH FEBRUARY,
1950, IN THE PRESENCE OF RISHIKESH BOSU (8/B BRINDABON GHOSH LANE, CALCUTTA-
700012), MANOBENDRANATH SINHA (1/2 RAMANATH MAZUMDAR STREET, CALCUTTA- 700009)
AND MANICKLAL GHOSE (20/2 SURESH SARKAR ROAD, CALCUTTA- 700014).
TULSI WAS MARRIED TO SRIMATI JOGOMAYA
DEVI (D/O: SRI BASANTA MUKHOPADHYAY AND SRIMATI
MALATI DEVI OF 96 SERPENTINE LANE, CALCUTTA- 700014). JOGOMAYA’S SISTERS
WERE SRIMATI SUDHANONI DEVI AND ‘PAKHI’ DEVI. JOGOMAYA’S BROTHERS WERE SRI PANCHANAN MUKHOPAHYAYA AND SRI MURARI MUKHOPADYAY. SRI GOPINATH
MUKHOPADHYAYA, SRIMATI MONIMALA DEVI AND SRIMATI ‘TOSHAN’
DEVI WERE THE CHILDREN OF PANCHANAN. GOPINATH’S
MATERNAL HOUSE WAS IN PUTIARI, TOLLYGAUNGE, AND GOPINATH’S COUSIN (RELATED
THROUGH MATERNAL SIDE) WAS ACTOR SRI AYAN BANERJEE
(TOLLYWOOD INDUSTRY). JOGOMAYA’S COUSIN SISTER WAS MARRIED TO SABORNO ROY CHOWDHURY’S ‘MEJO’ FAMILY.
JOGOMAYA DEVI’S MOTHER, SRIMATI MALATI
DEVI, WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE RAJBAIDYA
(PERSONAL PHYSICIAN OF THE KING) OF GIDHAUR, BIHAR. MALATI DEVI’S COUSIN
(PATERNAL AUNT’S SON) WAS SRI JUGOL. JUGOL’S SON
IN-LAW’S MATERNAL AUNT WAS SRIMATI SANDHYA MUKHERJEE
(SINGER).
BASANTA MUKHOPADHYAY’S SISTER, SRIMATI
SATI DEVI WAS MARRIED TO SRI DAYAMOY
BANDYPADHYAY (SON OF SRI ABINASH CHANDRA
BANDYAPADHYAY AND GRANDSON OF SRI ANUKUL CHANDRA
BANDYOPADHYAY), ZAMINDAR OF BANKSARA, SATRAGACHI. THEIR SON WAS SRI FAKIRCHAND BANERJEE, A HIGHLY DESIGNATED OFFICER
OF NETHERLAND BANK. HE WAS MARRIED TO SRIMATI HIRANBALA
DEVI (D/O: SRI BHOOTNATH GANGULY,
SOVABAZAR). THEY HAD FOUR SONS NAMELY, SRI BISWANATH
BANERJEE (FORMER PRINCIPAL OF GOBARDANGA COLLEGE
AND SURENDRANATH COLLEGE), SRI BAIDYANATH BANERJEE,
SRI BHOLANATH BANERJEE (S.B.I.
EMPLOYEE) AND SRI DINANATH BANERJEE, AND TWO DAUGHTERS,
SRIMATI ARATI DEVI (W/O: SRI HARAKUMAR BHATTACHARYA) AND SRIMATI
BASANTI DUTTA (W/O: SRI TARUN DUTTA).
BISWANATH HAD A SON SRI MOULINATH. BAIDYANATH
(F/O: SRIMATI SRABONI
CHATTERJEE) IS THE MATERNAL GRANDFATHER OF ‘SURYA’.
BHOLANATH HAD A SON SRI ANJAN (F/O: SRIMATI TANNISTHA
DEVI) AND A DAUGHTER SRIMATI SULAGNA BISWAS
(M/O: SRIMATI SNEHA BISWAS).
SRI HARAKUMAR BHATTACHARYA WAS THE SON OF SRI KALIKINKAR BHATTACHARYA OF JABUI VILLAGE, MEMARI,
BURDWAN DISTRICT OF WEST BENGAL. HARAKUMAR AND ARATI DEVI’S SON IS SRI SUBRATA BHATTACHARYA (H/O: SRIMATI RANI DEVI, F/O: SRIMATI SHUMEDHA
DEVI AND SRI SOUHARDYA BHATTACHARYA)
HIRANBALA’S SISTER SRIMATI NANDARANI
DEVI WAS MARRIED TO SRI KALICHARAN CHATTOPADYAYA.
THEY HAD TWO SONS, NAMELY SRI SAMIR CHATTOPADHYAYA AND SRI SHYAMAL
CHATTOPADYAYA.
TULSI’S SON SRI SAILENDRANATH
CHATTOPADYAYA, BORN IN THIS HOUSE’S ‘ATOOR GHAAR’ OR BIRTH PLACE, WAS
THE FIRST BENGALI SPORTS CONVENOR OF S.B.I, MARKING THE THIRD GENERATION IN
SB.I. HE ALSO A DISTINGUISHED FOOTBALLER OF ARYANS FOOTBALL CLUB (UNDER SAMBHU
MUKHERJEE’S CAPTAINCY, 1946-1948), PARTICIPATED IN MOHUNBAGAN FOOTBALL CLUB’S
FIRST DIVISION MATCHES, LIFE MEMBER OF CRICKET ASSOCIATION OF BENGAL, SECRETARY
OF ENTALLY KITE CLUB (WINNING SIX CONSECUTIVE KITE CHAMPIONSHIPS), DISHARI
AWARD WINNING DRAMATIST (CO-ACTED WITH STALWARTS LIKE UTPAL DUTTA, GITA DEY,
ETC.), ENTREPRENEUR OF PIGEON FLYING COMPETITIONS IN CALCUTTA, ONE OF THE FOUNDERS
OF SANTOSH MITRA SQUARE’S DURGOTSAV -1948 (WHICH PREVIOUSLY USED TO BE
ORGANIZED IN AN ADJACENT ALLEY AND SATOSH MITRA SQUARE WAS THEN CALLED ST.
JAMES SQUARE), RELATED TO SCIONS LIKE KALIGHAT TEMPLE’S THAKO GANGULY FROM
PATERNAL SIDE, BELOVED FRIEND OF CHUNI GOSWAMI (INDIAN FOOTBALLER), RAMESHWAR
SARKAR (JEWELLERS), CHANDI GANGULY (C.A.B MEMBER AND FORMER INDIAN CRICKET CAPTAIN
SOURAV GANGULY’S FATHER), LADY RANU MUKHERJEE AND SIR BIREN MUKHERJEE OF
ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, ASIT BARAN (ACTOR), SALIL CHOWDHURY (SINGER), SHYAMAL
MITRA (SINGER) AND OTHERS. SAILENDRANATH’S ELDER BROTHER IN LAW WAS FAMOUS CARD
PLAYER SRI KALIGOPAL BANERJEE (RELATED TO SRI MOHINI MOHAN BANDYOPADYAY AND HENCE TO SINGER SRIMATI NIRMALA MISHRA).
SAILEN WAS MARRIED TO SRIMATI MINA
DEVI (D/O: SRI ABHOY PADA BHATTACHARYA-
DIED ON 16TH OCTOBER, 1966- AND SRIMATI SHANTIRANI
DEVI OF 9 GARPAR ROAD, CALCUTTA- 700009). ABHOY PADA WAS S/O SRI SYAMAPADA BHATTACHARYA. SANTIRANI DEVI’S STEP MOTHER
WAS COUSIN OF SRI ASHOK KUMAR (FAMOUS INDIAN
ACTOR), SRIMATI SATI DEVI, SRI ABHAS KR. GANGULY (KISHORE
KUMAR) AND SRI ANOOP KUMAR OF GANGOPADHYAY
FAMILY OF KHANDWA, CENTRAL PROVINCES AND BERAR. SHE WAS ALSO RELATED TO THE RAJAS OF BHAWAL ESTATE. MINA DEVI’S SISTER SRIMATI KONA DEVI WAS MARRIED TO SRI GYANENDRA MOHAN BANERJEE WHOSE MATERNAL AUNT WAS
‘BOUTHAN’ (SISTER IN-LAW) OF ARUN KR. CHATTERJEE
(UTTAM KUMAR). MINA HAD FOUR OTHER BROTHERS, SRI SAMIR BHATTACHARYA, SRI
TAPAN BHATTACHARYA, SRI ASHIM
BHATTACHARYA AND SRI PRADYUT
BHATTACHARYA. MINA DEVI WAS ELEMENTARY IN DONATING HER TRACTS OF LAND
FOR DEVELOPMENT OF PATULI, WEST BENGAL.
SAILEN’S SISTERS SRIMATI UMA DEVI
WAS MARRIED TO SRI KALI GOPAL (SURVIVED BY SRI TAPAN
BANERJEE, SRI RATAN BANERJEE, AND SRIMATI ARUNA DEVI-(W/O: SRI BASUDEV
ROY)), SRIMATI JYOSTNA DEVI WAS MARRIED
TO SRI HARIGOPAL BANERJEE (SURVIVED BY SRI MANOJ BANERJEE, SRIMATI AMITA
DEVI- W/O: SRI AMAR MUKHERJEE- NEPHEW OF WEST BENGAL LEGISLATIVE
ASSEMBLY’S FORMER SPEAKER SRI BIJOY BANERJEE),
AND SRIMATI ANIMA DEVI WAS MARRIED TO SRI NITYANANDA BANERJEE (SURVIVED BY SRI JAYANTA BANERJEE).
TAPAN BANERJEE IS MARRIED TO SRIMATI
UMA DEVI (D/O: SRI BAIDYANATH CHATTERJEE
AND SRIMATI NIHARKONA DEVI) AND HAS TWO DAUGHTERS,
SRIMATI RUPAI DEVI AND SRIMATI
MUNAI DEVI. RATAN IS MARRIED TO SRIMATI KRISHNA
DEVI (D/O: SRI NOTU BEHARI BANERJEE AND SRIMATI PRATIBHAMOYEE DEVI) AND HAS A SON, SRI RUDRANIL BANERJEE. ARUNA HAS A SON, SRI INDRANIL ROY. IT HAS TO BE MENTIONED HERE THAT
KALIGOPAL AND HARIGOPAL WERE BROTHERS. THEY HAD ONE MORE SIBLING, ACTOR SRI SRIGOPAL BANERJEE (MARRIED
TO SRIMATI JYOSTNA DEVI AND F/O: ACTOR SRI NANDA DULAL BANERJEE), WHO WAS YOUNGER TO
KALIGOPAL AND ELDER TO HARIGOPAL. SRIGOPAL ACTED IN FILMS LIKE ‘UTTAR FALGUNI’
IN TOLLYWOOD.
SRI BASUDEV ROY IS THE SON OF SRI
NARENDRANATH ROY AND THE GRANDSON OF SRI NARAYAN
CHANDRA ROY. NARAYAN CHANDRA WAS THE SON OF SRI
HARAKUMAR ROY AND THE GRANDSON OF SRI KEDAR ROY.
KALIGOPAL (S/O: SRI UPENDRALAL BANDYOPADHYAYA, GRANDSON OF: SRI CHANDRA KUMAR
BANDYOPADHYAYA) WAS THE BEST FRIEND OF NIRODH GANGULY, FATHER OF CHANDI
GANGULY. THE GANGULYS’ BEFORE PURCHASING THE HOUSE AT BEHALA USED TO STAY AT
BOWBAZAR. INFACT, CRANDRA KUMAR PANDIT WAS THE TEACHER OF RAJA MANINDRA CHANDRA
NANDI. CHANDRA KUMAR’S FATHER SRI SAMBHUNATH BANDYOPADHYAYA WAS MARRIED TO SRIMATI
GOLOKMONI DEVI (SISTER OF SRIMATI DURGAMONI DEVI
AND D/O: SRI RAMLOCHON
CHAKRABORTY OF JOYNAGAR, WESTBENGAL). SAMBHUNATH WAS THE SON OF SRI MANIKLAL BANDYOPADHYAY AND GRANDSON OF SRI MUKTARAM BANDYOPADHYAY. UPENDRALAL’S MATERNAL
AUNT’S SON WAS SANGEETRATNA SANGEETNAYAK PANDIT
MOHINIMOHON MISHRA (BANDYOPADHYAY). MOHINIMOHON’S CHILDREN WERE SRI MURARI MOHON MISHRA (SINGER), SRIMATI NIRMALA MISHRA (SINGER) AND OTHERS. CHANDRA
KUMAR’S BROTHER WAS SRI KSHETRA KUMAR. KSHETRA KUMAR’S
SON WAS SRI SURENDRALAL BANDYOPADHYAYA AND
GRANDSON WAS SRI SHANTIMOY BANDYOPADHYAY.
SRI TAPAN BANERJEE HAS PRESENTLY SETTLED DOWN IN ARGHA
APARTMENT, 50 NEW G.T. ROAD, UTTARPARA, HOOGHLI, PINCODE- 712258. SRI RATAN
BANERJEE HAS BEEN PRESENTLY RESIDING IN 90 PANCHKORI SADHUKA ROOAD, NATAGACHI,
SODEPUR, NORTH 24 PARGANAS. ARUN IS THE RESIDENT OF 6, AMRITALAL CHATTERJEE
SARANI, UTTARPARA, HOOGHLY, PINCODE- 712258.
SRI MANMATHANATH CHATTOPADHYAYA WAS MARRIED TO SRIMATI MALINA DEVI (D/O: SRI DHONKRISHNA
BANERJEE, A FAMOUS ARISTROCRAT OF DOMJUR, WEST BENGAL). DHONKRISHNA’S
FATHER WAS SRI NILMONI BANDYOPADHYAYA. APART
FROM MALINA SEVI, DHONKRISHNO HAD TWO MORE SONS, NAMELY, SRI KAMALAKKA BANERJEE AND SRI
NALINAKKHA BANERJEE. MANMATHANATH HAD ONE DAUGTER, SRIMATI SOBHONA DEVI, AND THERE SONS, NAMELY, SRI SAMIR CHATTOPADHYAYA, SRI SUNIT
CHATTOPADHYAYA (H/O: SRIMATI
ILA DEVI, F/O: SRIMATI SUMANA DEVI) AND SRI PRANIT CHATTOPADHYAYA (H/O: SRIMATI ROMA DEVI, F/O: SRIMATI
PRERANA DEVI). ILA DEVI’S PARENTS WERE SRI
BISHNUPADA BANDYOPADHYAYA AND SRIMATI SANTI DEVI,
AND ROMA DEVI’S PARENTS WERE SRI KALIKUMAR HALDAR
AND SRIMATI SANDHYA DEVI. KALIKUMAR WAS THE SON
OF SRI JOGENDRANATH HALDAR. MANMATHANATH LATER SETTLED
IN A SEPARATE RESIDENCE 30/2/1 WOOMESH MUKHERJEE ROAD, BELGHARIA, CALCUTTA-
700056.
SOBHONA WAS MARRIED TO SRI SITAL
CHANDRA CHOUDHURY (S/O: SRI BHUPENDRANATH
CHOWDHURY) AND HAD ONE SON, SRI SUDHIN CHANDRA CHOUDHURY (H/O: SRIMATI
RACHANA DEVI, F/O: SRI ANIK CHOUDHURY),
AND TWO DAUGHTERS, SRIMATI MUKTI DEVI
(UNMARRIED) AND SRIMATI MITA DEVI (W/O: SRI TAPAN ROY, M/O: SRI
BOUDHAYAN ROY). BHUPENDRANATH CHOWDHURY WAS THE SON OF SRI GOPAL CHANDRA CHOWDHURY AND THE GRANDSON OF SRI HARADHAN CHOWDHURY.
NAGENDRABALA HAD TWO SONS, SRI RAKHALDAS
BANDYOPADHYAYA (MARRIED TO SRIMATI ROMOLA DEVI)
AND SRI BHUPALDAS BANDYOPADHYAY (MARRIED TO SRIMATI BELA DEVI), AND FIVE DAUGHTERS, NAMELY, ‘NUPUR’, SRIMATI HEMANGINI
DEVI (‘GAURI’), SRIMATI
MRINALINI DEVI (‘MONA’), ‘PANU’ AND SRIMATI AMIYA DEVI
(‘MANTU’). SRIMATI ROMOLA DEVI WAS THE GRAND
DAUGHTER OF SRI ISWAR GANGULY OF KALIGHAT, AFTER WHOM THE ISWAR GANGULY LANE OF
KALIGHAT, CALCUTTA, HAS BEEN NAMED. SRIMATI BELA DEVI WAS THE DAUGHTER OF SRI JOYGOPAL GOSWAMI AND SRIMATI
BIBHABOTI DEVI OF GOSAI MALPARA, HOOGHLI.
HEMANGINI DEVI WAS MARRIED TO SRI
PARESH BHATTACHARYA OF HOBIPUR VILLAGE, RANAGHAT. SHE HAD TWO DAUGHTERS,
SRIMATI NAMITA DEVI AND SRIMATI
LAKSHMI DEVI. MRINALINI DEVI WAS MARRIED TO SRI
KRISHNA KINKAR MUKHERJEE OF KARAYA, PARK CIRCUS, CALCUTTA. PANU HAD A
SON ‘GOPAL’ AND A DAUGHTER ‘RENU’. THEY USED TO RESIDE IN MANOHARPUKUR ROAD, CALCUTTA.
AMIYA DEVI WAS MARRIED TO SRI SAROJ BHATTACHARYA,
THE NEPHEW (SISTER’S SON) OF PARESH BHATTACHARYA.
RAKHAL HAD FIVE DAUGHTERS SRIMATI
ANJALI DEVI (W/O: SRI SUKUMAR MUKHOPADHYAYA),
SRIMATI PUSHPO DEVI (W/O: SRI AMAL MUKHERJEE OF RAMRAJATOLA, HOWRAH), SRIMATI JUBILI DEVI (OR ‘JUJU’,
W/O: SRI KRISHNA GOPAL GHOSE), SRIMATI SHYAMOLI
DEVI (OR ‘KOKO’, W/O:
SRI MANOJ ROYCHOWDHURY) AND SRIMATI CHANDANA
DEVI (OR ‘CHONA’, W/O: SRI ASHIM BHATTACHARYA), AND ONE SON, SRI SATYEN BANDYOPADHYAYA (H/O: SRIMATI ANITA DEVI).
BHUPAL HAD ONE SON SRI SHYAMAPADA
BANDYOPADHYAYA AND FOUR DAUGHTERS, NAMELY, SRIMATI
SHANKARI DEVI, SRIMATI KABERI DEVI (‘KALTU’), SRIMATI SIPRA DEVI
AND SRIMATI KEYA DEVI (‘AHLLADI’).
SHANKARI DEVI HAS BEEN MARRIED TO SRI SAMIR CHATTERJEE
(OF COLLEGE STREET) AND HAS A SON, SRI SUMIT CHATTERJEE.
KAVERI DEVI IS THE WIFE OF SRI PANCHANAN MUKHERJEE
(OF BEHRAMPUR) AND IS THE MOTHER OF SRI PALLAB
MUKHERJEE. SIPRA DEVI HAS BEEN MARRIED TO SRI
ASHIM KUMAR CHATTERJEE (OF SHYAMSUNDOR MANDIR, KHARDAH) AND HAS A SON, SRI AVIRUP CHATTERJEE. KEYA DEVI IS THE WIFE OF SRI PARTHO SEKHAR CHATTERJEE (GRANDSON OF DR. M.N CHATTERJEE) AND HAS A SON SRI PRAYASH SEKHAR CHATTERJEE. SHYAMAPADA’S WIFE, SRIMATI SRILEKHA DEVI IS A SINGER. THEIR SON SRI AREEJIT BANERJEE AND DAUGHTER SRIMATI SWAGATA DEVI (DANCER) ARE PRESENTLY BASED AT THE US. SWAGATA DEVI HAS BEEN MARRIED TO SRI ANANYO
BANDYOPADHYAYA.
SRI SUBIR KUMAR CHATTERJEE,
THE ELDER SON OF SAILENDRANATH AND BROTHER OF SRI PROBIR
KUMAR CHATTERJEE (PRESENT SHEBAIT OF THAKURANI), MARKED THE FOURTH
CONSECUTIVE GENERATION IN S.B.I. HE ASSISTED HIS FATHER IN VENTURES TO UPHOLD
THE FAMILY NAME IN VARIOUS OCCASIONS. HE TRIED TO MATERIALIZE WHAT SWAMIJI ONCE SAID ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERCASTE MARRIAGES BETWEEN A BRAHMIN AND A KAYASTHA DAUGHTER. ACCORDINGLY, HE BROKE THE AGE OLD CUSTOM PREVALENT DURING HIS TIMES, AND HE NOT ONLY MARRIED OUTSIDE HIS MEL, BUT ALSO OUTSIDE BRAHMIN CASTE. HOWEVER, HE DEFINITELY FOLLOWED SARAT'S DEBUTTUR WILL AND SWAMIJI'S TEACHINGS OF NOT MARRYING OUTSIDE HINDOO RELIGION. HE WAS MARRIED TO SRIMATI MALLIKA (D/O: SRI
DEBABRATA GHOSE AND SRIMATI ARATI DEVI) OF
42 MASJID BARI STREET, CALCUTTA- 700006. THEIR ONLY SON IS SRI SOUMIK CHATTERJEE (IT OFFICIAL) WHO HAS BEEN
CONSIDERED BY HIS UNCLE SRI PROBIR KUMAR CHATTERJEE
AS HIS ONLY HEIR.
DEBABRATA’S PATERNAL GRAND FATHER WAS KING’S COMMISSION COLONEL UPENDRA NATH GHOSE CHOWDHURY (WHO
LED THE ABYSSINIAN WAR FRONT UNDER THE BRITISH RAJ; S/O: SRI GOPAL GHOSE,
GRANDSON OF: SRI GOKUL GHOSE) OF AKNA’S GHOSE
CLAN. UPEN GHOSH’S TWELVE SISTER’S WERE MARRIED TO TWELVE DISTINGUISHED
PERSONALITIES OF INDIA. THE THIRD OF
UPEN’S SON WAS SRI SUDHIR GHOSE- THE RENOWNED NATIONALIST.
UPEN’S YOUNGEST SON WAS SRI AJIT GHOSE WHOSE
BROTHER IN LAW WAS SRI BASANTA
CHOWDHURY (ACTOR). SRIMATI MONOROMA (BORN
IN QUETTA), UPEN’S ELDER DAUGHTER WAS MARRIED TO THE DR. T. BOSE OF THE BOSE CLAN RELATED TO DR. RADHA GOBINDA KAR WHO ESTABLISHED CALCUTTA SCHOOL
OF MEDICINE (1886), PRESENTLY KNOWN AS R.G.KAR MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL. UPEN’S SECOND SON WAS SRI SISIR GHOSE (SURVIVED BY HIS SON SRI MOHON GHOSE, AND DAUGHTERS MADHURI, JHARNA, ARATI (W/O: SRI PARIMAL MITTER
OF BHOWANIPUR’S ‘MITTER BARI’) AND NAMITA,
GRANDSON SRI MALAY GHOSE, GREAT GRANDSON SRI SUJON GHOSE), AND FOURTH SON WAS SRI SUNIL GHOSE. DEBABRATA’S FATHER, SRI NIRMAL CHANDRA GHOSE (OR GORA CHAND GHOSE, BORN IN
FRANCE) WAS UPEN’S ELDEST SON. GORA CHAND WAS MARRIED TO SRIMATI SUSOMA MITTER, THE DAUGHTER OF SRI PRAVASH CH. MITTER (WHO DESIGNED CENTRAL AVENUE,
LAKE AREA, ETC. WHILE WORKING IN THE CALCUTTA IMPROVEMENT TRUST) AND SRIMATI CHARUSHILA MITTER OF 26 GANGAPRASAD MUKHERJEE
ROAD, CALCUTTA– 700025 (ADJACENT TO ASUTOSH MUKHERJEE’S HOUSE). PRAVASH WAS THE
DESCENDENT OF SRI KASHI MITTER (AFTER WHOM THE
KASHI MITTER GHAT IS NAMED). PRAVASH WAS THE SON OF SRI MAHESH MITTER AND GRANDSON OF SRI JOGESH MITTER. PRAVASH HAD THERE SONS- SRI PRATAP MITTER, MAJOR
SUBEDAR PRABHAT MITTER (F/O: SRI DEBOJYOTI MITTER (F/O: SRI
ATMAJYOTI MITTER), SRIMATI DEBJANI MITTER
AND SRIMATI DEBORSHI
SINHA) AND SRI PRAKASH MITTER (OF
CALCUTTA IMPROVEMENT TRUST). PRAVASH’S YOUNGER DAUGHTER SRIMATI PRATIMA MITTER (RENUMA) WAS
A DISTINGUISHED KIRTAN SINGER. THE MITTERS OF BHOWANIPUR AND WIFE OF UPEN GHOSE WERE ALSO RELATED TO WRITER SRI DINABANDHU MITRA (WRITER OF ‘NIL-DARPAN’), SRI KAMAL MITRA (ACTOR) AND SRI
BIMAL MITRA (WRITER) AND THE SANKAR GHOSE OF THANTHANIA
KALI TEMPLE, CALCUTTA. GORACHAND’S ELDEST SON, SRI
KESHTO GHOSE, WAS A RENOWNED LEFTIST OF CALCUTTA. GORACHAND’S SECOND SON
WAS SRI SUBRATA GHOSE AND HIS THIRD SON WAS
DEBABRATA. GORACHAND’S FOURTH SON WAS SRI PRIYABRATA
GHOSE. GORACHAND’S ONLY DAUGHTER, SRIMATI REKHA
DEVI, WAS MARRIED TO SRI KESHAB DUTTA (HAATKHOLA DUTTA CLAN).
KESHTO GHOSE HAD TWO SONS, SRI ARUP
GHOSE (F/O: SRIMATI MEENAKSHI DEVI) AND SRI ATANU GHOSE (F/O:
SRIMATI ANANYA GHOSE, H/O: SRIMATI DIPA GHOSE, SON –IN-LAW OF: SRI BAMAPADA SINHA), AND ONE DAUGHTER, SRIMATI MITRA DEVI (W/O: SRI AMAL BANERJEE,
M/O: SRIMATI INDRANI
BANERJEE).
DEBABRATA’S WIFE, ARATI DEVI IS THE DAUGHTER OF SRI JOGESH CHANDRA PATRA AND SRIMATI
UMASASHI PATRA OF 18 SASHI BHUSHAN DEY STREET, CALCUTTA- 700012.
JOGESH’S FATHER WAS SRI THAKOLAL PATRA. ARATI
HAS A SISTER SRIMATI MANJU PATRA (UNMARRIED), AND A STEP
BROTHER SRI BIRENDRANATH PATRA. DEBABRATA HAS FOUR DAUGHTERS, NAMELY SRIMATI LIPIKA MITRA (W/O: SRI GAUTAM MITRA,
M/O: SRIMATI MAYURI
MITRA), SRIMATI MALLIKA DEVI, SRIMATI MANDIRA ROY (W/O: SRI SNEHASIS ROY OF
131-D BAGHAJATIN COLONY, CALCUTTA- 700032, M/O:
SRIMATI SOURAVI ROY) AND SRIMATI ANTARA DEY (W/O: SRI
ARUMOY DEY OF 14/1 A SERPENTINE LANE, CALCUTTA- 700014, M/O: SRIMATI AYANTIKA DEY), AND TWO SONS, NAMELY, SRI DIBYENDU GHOSH AND SRI SUVENDU
GHOSH OF 10C HARALAL MITRA STREET, THIRD FLOOR, CALCUTTA- 700003 (H/O: SRIMATI SAMPA GHOSH (TEACHER), F/O: SRIMATI SATAKSHI GHOSH). GAUTAM IS THE SON OF SRI SUDHANGSHU KR. MITRA AND SRIMATI
MINA MITRA. SNEHASIS ROY IS THE SON OF LEFTIST SRI
RABI ROY AND SRIMATI SHOVA DEVI (THE
FORMER TEACHER IN-CHARGE OF EASTERN RAILWAY ATP SCHOOL, BAMANGACHI, HOWRAH).
RABI WAS THE SON OF DR. GIRINDRA CHANDRA ROY AND
SRIMATI SANTOSH KUMARI DEVI. ARUMOY IS THE SON
OF SRI RANJIT DEY AND SRIMATI
DIPA DEY, AND YOUNGER BROTHER OF SRI ARUP DEY.
ARUP HAS A DAUGHTER, SRIMATI ARUNDHOTI DEY.
RANJIT DEY WAS THE SON OF SRI HARENDRANATH DEY
AND SRIMATI NIRMALA PRABHA DEY AND GRANDSON OF SRI GOPAL CHANDRA DEY.
PRIYABRATA IS SURVIVED BY HIS ONE DAUGHTER, SRIMATI
KUNTALA GHOSE, AND ONE SON, SRI KOUSHIK GHOSE.
THESE ARE ONLY A FEW PERSONALITIES, RELATED TO THE
BLESSED CHATTERJEE FAMILY OF ENTALLY, WHO COULD BE REMEMBERED TO BE NAMED IN
THIS PIECE OF DOCUMENT OF HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE. THUS, ‘PRASANNA MANDIR’, PRESENTLY ADDRESSED 7 GOPE
LANE, ENTALLY, CALCUTTA- 700014, THE DEBOTTAR ESTATE OF SREE SREE ISWAR
PRASANNAMOYEE KALIMATA THAKURANI, IS WHERE DIVINITY AND THE ‘BABU CULTURE’ OF
CALCUTTA HAS MERGED. HERE, SEVERAL USTAADS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC PERFORMED WITH SRI
SARAT CHANDRA CHATTERJEE IN HIS REGULAR ‘JALSAS’. IT WAS HERE THAT SEVERAL PERSONALITIES
OF TREMENDOUS SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE, USED TO DISCUSS SEVERAL ISSUES TO UPLIFT THE
INDIAN SOCIETY. THUS, THIS TEMPLE, WHICH IS APPROXIMATED TO BE OF HUNDREDS OF YEARS
OLD, SYMBOLISES THE COMBINATION OF HOARY TRADITION AND CULTURED URBANITY OF A
QUINTESSENTIAL ARISTROCRATIC ‘BONEDI’ FAMILY OF CALCUTTA.
PRASANNA MANDIR, 1422 B.S., 2015 A.D.
