Background
Harichand Thakur was born in the Namasudra (Namassej) community in Bengal on 11 March 1812 in Orakandi of the Kashiani Upazila in Gopalganj district, located in present day Bangladesh.
Harichand Thakur was born in the Namasudra (Namassej) community in Bengal on 11 March 1812 in Orakandi of the Kashiani Upazila in Gopalganj district, located in present day Bangladesh.
He worked among the subaltern population. He was one of six sons of Namasudra or Namassej (then called Chandala) peasant family that was thought to be belong to the Gautama clan (later, the community members agreed to be identified as belonging to Kasyapa clan. In the different census reports of the nineteenth century, the Namasudras were found to have identified themselves as belonging to four different clans or gotras).
Born in 1812 at Safaladanga, Gopalgaunge, his birthname was Sri Harichand Biswas.
He moved to Odakandi, Faridpur. At a very early age, he accepted the path of religious reformation for giving service to and uplifting the subaltern people of Bengal.
Shri Harichand was married with Shri Shanti Mata and they had two sons. One son was Shri Guruchand Thakur.Shri Harichand Thakur left this mortal world ( died ) at Odakandi in 1877.
