Syama Prasad Mukherjee was an Indian politician,barrister and academician,who served as India's first Minister for Industry and Supply in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet. After falling out with Nehru,protesting against the Liaquat–Nehru Pact,Mukherjee resigned from Nehru's cabinet. With the help of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh,he founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh,the predecessor to the Bharatiya Janata Party,in 1951.
George Mathew Fernandes was an Indian trade unionist,statesman,and journalist,who served as the 22nd Defence Minister of India from 1998 until 2004. A veteran socialist,he was a member of the Lok Sabha for over 30 years,starting from Bombay in 1967 till 2009 mostly representing constituencies from Bihar. He was a key member of the Janata Dal and the founder of the Samata Party. Holding several prominent ministerial portfolios during his career,including communication,industry,railways,and defence,he was posthumously awarded the Padma Vibhushan,India's second highest civilian award,in 2020.
Ganjam district is a district in the Indian state of Odisha. Ganjam's total area is 8,206 km²(3,168 mi²). The district headquarters is Chhatrapur. Ganjam is divided into three sub-divisions Chhatrapur,Berhampur,and Bhanjanagar. The Imperial Gazetteer of India 1908 lists Ganjam,along with the Thanjavur and South Canara districts,as the three districts of the Madras Presidency where Brahmins were most numerous. As of 2011 it is the most populous district of Odisha.
Tollygunge is a locality of South Kolkata,in West Bengal,India. It is known for being the center of Indian Bengali-language cinema,with filming locations used for other regional Indian films.
Khidirpur or Kidderpore is a neighbourhood of South West Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Saiyid Nurul Hasan FRHistS,FRAS was an Indian historian and an elder statesman in the Government of India. A member of the Rajya Sabha,he was the Union Minister of State of Education,Social Welfare and Culture Government of India (1971–1977) and the Governor of West Bengal and Odisha (1986–1993).
Bande Ali Mia was a Bangladeshi poet,lyricist,novelist,dramatist,essayist,children’s writer and journalist. He was awarded the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1962 and Ekushey Padak in 1988.
Mohammed Salim is an Indian politician,who is the incumbent State Secretary in West Bengal of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was inducted in the politburo of CPI(M) in the 21st party congress organised at Visakhapatnam in 2015. He was a Member of the 16th Lok Sabha,representing Raiganj constituency. Earlier,he was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha,representing the Calcutta North East constituency of West Bengal. After delimitation,in the 2009 Lok Sabha election Salim contested the new Calcutta North constituency,and lost to Sudip Bandyopadhyay of the Trinamool Congress. Mohammed Salim is contesting the 2024 Indian general election as the Left Front candidate from the Murshidabad.
Barun De was an Indian historian. He served as the first professor of social and economic history of the Indian Institute of Management,Calcutta,founder-director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences,Calcutta and the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies,Kolkata and as the honorary state editor for the West Bengal District Gazetteers. He was chairman of the West Bengal Heritage Commission.
The Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies is an autonomous research institute based in Kolkata. It is funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Government of India. It was founded on 4 January 1993. The foundation stone of the institute was laid where the new building now stands on 12 March 1993. It is devoted to the study of the life and works of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad,the eminent nationalist leader and India's first education minister,after whom it is named,and to the furtherance of Area Studies,with special reference to South Asia,Central Asia and West Asia,especially dealing with social,cultural,economic,political and administrative developments in Asia from the nineteenth century to the present. M.Phil.- and Ph.D.-level students of the University of Calcutta,Jadavpur University and Jawaharlal Nehru University,New Delhi are also associated with it.
Sultan Ahmed was an Indian politician and the Union Minister of State for Tourism in the Manmohan Singh government. He was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha from Uluberia on a Trinamool Congress ticket. He had previously been a 2-time Congress MLA for Entally.
Gour Kishore Ghosh was a Bengali writer and journalist. Associated with Anandabazar Patrika for decades,Ghosh was known for his novels Desh Mati Manush and Prem Nei. He was the first editor of Aajkaal.
Altamas Kabir was an Indian lawyer and judge who served as the 39th Chief Justice of India.
Atish Chandra Sinha was a minister and Leader of the Opposition in the Indian state of West Bengal. Physicist Bikash Sinha is his cousin.
Jehangir Kabir was an Indian Bengali politician and trade union leader.
Subrata Mukherjee was an Indian politician who was cabinet minister of the government of West Bengal and sitting member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly. He was a member of All India Trinamool Congress. He was also the 35th Mayor of Kolkata from 2000 to 2005.
Rabin Deb is an Indian politician. He is currently a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [abbreviated CPI(M)] and was member of the Legislative Assembly from Ballygunge constituency (1992–2006),where he was Chief Government Whip (2003-2006) of the Government of West Bengal. He helped Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the Saradha scam by sharing his point of view.
Hirendranath Mukhopadhyay,also known as Hiren Mukerjee,was an Indian politician,lawyer and academic. He was a member of the Communist Party of India having joined in 1936 when it was still illegal. He was elected to the Lok Sabha the lower house of the Indian Parliament from the Calcutta North East constituency in 1951,1957,1962,1967 and 1971. He suffered an electoral reverse when he lost to Pratap Chandra Chunder in 1977 after the CPI supported Emergency.
Khan Bahadur –a compound of Khan "Leader" and Bahadur "Brave" –was a honorary title in British India conferred on Indian subjects who were adherents of Islam or Zoroastrianism. The equivalent title for Hindus,Buddhists and Indian Christians was Rao Bahadur/Rai Bahadur and Sardar Bahadur for Sikhs. The title of Khan Bahadur was one degree higher than the title of Khan Sahib.
