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Compiler of Rajput O Ugrakshatriya
Haricharan Bandhu compiled Rajput O Ugrakshatriya, whose second edition appeared in 1940. Its publisher placed the first edition approximately thirty years earlier. The dedication, prefaces and historical arguments survive in the digitised book and this website’s reading collection.[1]
Signing his foreword from Jiaganj, Murshidabad, Bandhu explained a change of method: earlier scriptural debates gave way to discussion of Pala and Sena inscriptions published by the Varendra Anusandhan Samiti and Bangiya Sahitya Parishad.[1]
His foreword speaks from within the community. Dutta discusses the book as part of its efforts to define a historical identity; its ancestry claims remain the author’s arguments.[1][2]
Read the book and its English translation →
His signed foreword supplies direct community identification. A fuller life history remains to be documented.[1]
