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	'''Pramatha Ranjan Thakur''' (1902 — 28 Decembder 1990)<ref>{{Cite web\|title=বীণাপাণি দেবীর কপি ভার্সন ২\|url=https://eisamay.indiatimes.com/west-bengal-news/kolkata-news/binapani-devis-copy-version-2/articleshow/68277292.cms\|access-date=2021-04-11\|website=Ei Samay\|language=bn}}</ref> was an Indian politician elected as a member of the [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]] from the [[Hanskhali (Vidhan Sabha constituency)\|Hanskhali constituency]] in the [[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election\|1962 elections]] as a candidate of the [[Indian National Congress]].<ref>{{Cite ~~web~~\|~~last1=KolkataNovember 6\|first1~~=Indrajit Kundu\|~~last2~~=November 6~~\|first2=2020UPDATED\|last3=Ist\|first3=~~2020 ~~01:43~~\|title=The Matua factor in Battle for Bengal\|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/news-analysis/story/the-matua-factor-in-battle-for-bengal-1738402-2020-11-06\|access-date=2021-09-02\|~~website~~=India Today\|language=en}}</ref> The seat was reserved for candidates from the [[Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes\|Scheduled Castes]].<ref>{{cite web\| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_WB_1962.pdf \|title = General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal \| work= Constituency-wise Data\|publisher= Election Commission}}</ref>		'''Pramatha Ranjan Thakur''' (1902 – 28 Decembder 1990)<ref>{{Cite web\|title=বীণাপাণি দেবীর কপি ভার্সন ২\|url=https://eisamay.indiatimes.com/west-bengal-news/kolkata-news/binapani-devis-copy-version-2/articleshow/68277292.cms\|access-date=2021-04-11\|website=Ei Samay\|language=bn}}</ref> was an Indian politician elected as a member of the [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]] from the [[Hanskhali (Vidhan Sabha constituency)\|Hanskhali constituency]] in the [[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election\|1962 elections]] as a candidate of the [[Indian National Congress]].<ref>{{Cite magazine\|author=Indrajit Kundu \|date=November 6, 2020 \|title=The Matua factor in Battle for Bengal\|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/news-analysis/story/the-matua-factor-in-battle-for-bengal-1738402-2020-11-06\|access-date=2021-09-02\|magazine=India Today\|language=en}}</ref> The seat was reserved for candidates from the [[Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes\|Scheduled Castes]].<ref>{{cite web\| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_WB_1962.pdf \|title = General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal \| work= Constituency-wise Data\|publisher= Election Commission}}</ref>

	==Early life==		==Early life==

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[[File:Thakurnagar Matua Mahasangha and Thakur Bari Temple 11.jpg|thumb|Statue of P.R Thakur at Thakurnagar]]
'''Pramatha Ranjan Thakur''' (1902 — 28 Decembder 1990)<ref>{{Cite web|title=বীণাপাণি দেবীর কপি ভার্সন ২|url=https://eisamay.indiatimes.com/west-bengal-news/kolkata-news/binapani-devis-copy-version-2/articleshow/68277292.cms|access-date=2021-04-11|website=Ei Samay|language=bn}}</ref> was an Indian politician elected as a member of the [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]] from the [[Hanskhali (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Hanskhali constituency]] in the [[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962 elections]] as a candidate of the [[Indian National Congress]].<ref>{{Cite web|last1=KolkataNovember 6|first1=Indrajit Kundu|last2=November 6|first2=2020UPDATED|last3=Ist|first3=2020 01:43|title=The Matua factor in Battle for Bengal|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/news-analysis/story/the-matua-factor-in-battle-for-bengal-1738402-2020-11-06|access-date=2021-09-02|website=India Today|language=en}}</ref> The seat was reserved for candidates from the [[Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes|Scheduled Castes]].<ref>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_WB_1962.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission}}</ref>

==Early life==
Thakur was born at village of Orakandi in [[Faridpur District]] of Bengal Presidency. His father name is Shashi Bhushan Thakur. He passed [[Bar-at-law|Bar at Law]] from [[London]]. Thakur was the first barrister from the Namasudra community.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-08-19|title=How Pramatha Ranjan Thakur Saved Bengali Harijans From Being Engulfed By Pakistan|url=http://swatantramag.com/how-pramatha-ranjan-thakur-saved-bengali-harijans-from-being-engulfed-by-pakistan/|access-date=2021-09-02|website=Swatantra Mag|language=en-US}}</ref>

==Career==
Thakur was a prominent member of the [[Namasudra]] community, whose great-grandfather, [[Harichand Thakur]] (1811/12-1878), had founded the Hindu religious sect called [[Matua Mahasangha]]. The sect, which was further developed by Pramatha's grandfather, [[Guruchand Thakur]], became a focal point for the Namasudra community's efforts for social upliftment and by the 1930s Pramatha had become its head.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Politics of Caste in West Bengal |editor1-first=Uday |editor1-last=Chandra |editor2-first=Geir |editor2-last=Heierstad |editor3-first=Kenneth Bo |editor3-last=Nielsen |publisher=Routledge |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-31741-477-3 |chapter=Partition, Displacement, and the Decline of the Scheduled Caste Movement in West Bengal |first1=Sekhar |last1=Bhandyopadhyay |first2=Anasua Basu Ray |last2=Chaudhury |pages=75–79 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7qXbCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA75}}</ref> The Namasudras had been historically considered an [[untouchability|untouchable]] community.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Politics of Caste in West Bengal |editor1-first=Uday |editor1-last=Chandra |editor2-first=Geir |editor2-last=Heierstad |editor3-first=Kenneth Bo |editor3-last=Nielsen |publisher=Routledge |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-31741-477-3 |chapter=Building Up the Harichand-Guruchand Movement: The Politics of the Matua Mahansgha |first=Praskanva |last=Sinharay |pages=152–153 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7qXbCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA152}}</ref> He became the Minister of State for Tribal Development of West Bengal in 1963.

In 1933, he married [[Boro Maa|Binapani Devi Thakur]].

==References==
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[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from West Bengal]]
[[Category:Members of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly]]
[[Category:Matua people]]
[[Category:1902 births]]
[[Category:1990 deaths]]
[[Category:Bengali politicians]]

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