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Anukulchandra Chakravarty (14 September 1888 – 27 January 1969) popularly known as Sree Sree Thakur, was the founder of Satsang, in Deoghar[1][2][3]

He was born on 14 September 1888 in Himaitpur village in the Pabna district of Bangladesh. His father was Sivachandra Chakravarty and his mother was Manomohini Devi. He started his formal education at Himaitpur village elementary school in 1893. In 1898, he was admitted to Pabna Institute and studied there up to the eighth grade.[4] He attended Raipur High School at Amirabad for a short period and then in Naihati High School in the 24 Parganas of West Bengal until 1905.[5][6] Later, he was admitted to the Calcutta National Medical College, having tested-out of the school's high school diploma requirement.[7][8]

In high school, he wrote several short plays, the first in 1905. He also wrote songs and poems which were later published in a book, Debjani-O-Anyanya.[9][10][11] In 1910, Anukulchandra wrote some guiding instructions for one of his friend Atulchandra Bhattachariya, that was later published in 1918 as booklet called Satyanusaran (The Pursuit of Truth).[12]

Parents of Subhas Bose and his maternal uncle and aunt were followers of Sree Sree Thakur. Subhas Bose's parents Janakinath Bose and Prabhabati Devi invited Sree Sree Thakur to Puri,Odisha. Sree Sree Thakur with other devotees from Pabna reached Puri on 2 January 1923.[13]

After his death on 27 January 1969, his oldest son Amarendranath Chakravarty (21 November 1911 – 5 August 1994), known as Sree Sree Borda, led the activities of Satsang[14]

On 2 September 1987 the Government of India released a postage stamp featuring Sree Sree Thakur.[15][16][17] On 6 December 2010 Government of India released a postage stamp featuring Sree Sree Borda. 2 million copies of the stamps were printed by India Security Press, Nasik.[17] [18]

Indian stamp released on Anukulchandra's Birth Centenary
Indian stamp released on Sree Sree Borda

References

  1. ↑ "Deoghar Tourism". http://deoghar.nic.in/deoghar_tourism.html. 
  2. ↑ "Baba Baidyanath Temple". http://www.babadham.org/otherplaces/satsang.html. 
  3. ↑ "Politicians turn devotees at Satsang Vihar event". Times of India. 15 February 2014. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/Politicians-turn-devotees-at-Satsang-Vihar-event/articleshow/30418116.cms. 
  4. ↑ Dattaroy 2012, p. 57.
  5. ↑ Brace 2012, p. 29.
  6. ↑ Hauserman 2011, p. 48.
  7. ↑ Brace 1977, p. 13.
  8. ↑ Dattaroy 2012, p. 71.
  9. ↑ Anukulchandra 2012.
  10. ↑ Maiti 2013, p. 25.
  11. ↑ Dattaroy 2012, p. 80.
  12. ↑ "Satyanusaran". https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Satyanusaran. 
  13. ↑ "Error: no |title= specified when using {{Cite web}}" (in bn). http://www.bartamanpatrika.com/detailNews.php?cID=23&nID=101961&P=1&nPID=20180322. 
  14. ↑ "Indian postage stamp on Sree Sree Borda". http://www.istampgallery.com/sri-sri-borda/. 
  15. ↑ "Literature". http://www.satsang.org.in/index.php?p=literature#.VsA3GRgrK8o. 
  16. ↑ "Indian postage stamp on Sree Sree Thakur". http://indiastamp.blogspot.com/2009/11/india-stamps-on-sri-sri-thakur-anukul.html. 
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 "Indian postage stamps". http://postagestamps.gov.in/Stamps_List.aspx. 
  18. ↑ "sreesreebordastamp". http://www.istampgallery.com/sri-sri-borda. 

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