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Bharatchandra was born to Narendranarayan Ray and Bhavani Devi in Penro-Bhurshut village (in the present-day Howrah district) which is currently in Amta, Howrah area.
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Bharatchandra Ray
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He is mostly known for his poetic work, Annadamangal or Annapurnamangal. He is often referred to simply as Bharatchandra. While living in Ramchandra Munshi"s house at Debanandapur in the present-day Hooghly district, he learned Persian and Sanskrit.
After his education, he worked as a Mokhtar to facilitate his paternal household"s property management.
He roamed from place to place. He passed some time in Cuttack, Orissa in the domain of the Maratha power.
Later he went back to Bengal. When Bharatchandra was residing in the house of Indranarayan Chaudhury, the Diwan of the French government at Chandernagore, his talent was noticed by Maharaja Krishnachandra of Krishnanagar and Bharatchandra became his court poet.
He was bestowed with the title Raygunakar and received huge amount of land in Mulajore from Krishnachandra.
He was the first poet in the Bengali language to be identified as a people’s poet, and lent a new grace and beauty to the language.
