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Shree Sumatinath Temple at Azimganj
Built by Nahar Family
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Nahar Family:
Nahar family was a
Zemindar family of
Azimganj. The family has contributed a lot to the society, religion, academics and culture. They built
Shri Sumatinath Temple in
Azimganj.
Nahar family also founded
Kumar Singh Hall with a temple, community hall, library and museum in
Kolkata near their residence at Indian mirror street.
Rai Bahadoor Sri Manilal Nahar and one more person (I can not remember name) of this family had been featured in
"Glimpses of Bengal", published in 1905.
Sri Puran Chand Nahar of this family was a great scholar. He is one of the academicians in India who laid the foundation to
modern historical and archaeological research about Jainism. His collection is donated to
Kolkata university and it is preserved there.
His brother
Kesri Chand Nahar was a great patron of Indian classical music. He collected and published
"Stavanavali" almost a century back. This is a great collection of Jain
Bhajans with name of "
Raag" and "
Taal" printed with every
Bhajan (Jain devotional song).
Bijoy Singh Nahar of this family entered into politics. He reached to the status of
Home Minister and deputy Chief minister of West Bengal. He had been in the ministry of Dr.
Bidhan Chandra Roy and Siddhartha
Shankar Roy. Later on, he left Congress party with
babu Jagjivan Ram to form
Congress for democracy in 1977. When Congress for democracy was merged into
Janata party, he became
general secretary of Janata Party. He fought and won
parliamentary election in 1977 from
Kolkata.
He was a revolutionary Jain and edited and published
"Tarun Jain", a monthly magazine for young
Jains. He also adorned the post of Chairman,
Bihar religious trust board, Government of
Bihar.
Deep Singh Nahar of this family was a great photographer and had been worked as President, Bengal photographers association.
Ajit Singh Nahar of this family was a famous homoeopath and married to
Smt.
Kanak Sundari of famous
Rai Badridas Bahadoor Mookim family. His sons
Soumendra Nahar, Pradip Nahar and Bablu Nahar studied in Moscow.
Soumendra Nahar and
Pradip Nahar were
awarded with
Gorbachev award, highest honor for scientists in former USSR.
Soumen and
Bablu are in Russia and
Pradip is serving as a
research scientist in CSIR, Delhi.
Update: Mr. Ranjan Nahar, brother of Soumen has informed me that Soumen has returned fron Russia and is now living in Kolkata.
To be continued.........
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