Pitambar Deva Goswami: Difference between revisions

|name           = Pitambar Deva Goswami  

|image         = Pitambar copy.jpg

|caption       =  

|alt           = Seated, serious-looking young man dressed in white

| religion = [[Hinduism]]

|birth_date     = {{birth date|df=y|1885|6|10}}

|birth_place   = Sri Sri Garamur Satra, [[Majuli]]

|death_date     = {{death date and age|1962|10|20|1885|6|10|df=y}}

|philosophy     = [[Humanity (virtue)|Humanity]]  

|honors         = Satradhikar (chief) of Vaishnavite monastery Garamur Satra of Majuli

'''Pitambar Deva Goswami''' (10 June 1885 – 20 October 1962) was a spiritual leader and social reformer in the Indian state of [[Assam]]. At age six, he was accepted into the monastic order of the Garamur Satra. Goswami was schooled in [[Sanskrit]] by Nityanandadeva Bhagawati Vidyavagish in the [[Satra (Ekasarana Dharma)|satra]]. When he was 21, he was appointed Satradhikar (head priest) of the Garamur Satra after the death of Jogachandra Deva Satradhikar Goswami.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}}

Goswami pursued reforms which influenced the social life of Assam.{{citation needed|date = July 2014}} He introduced martial arts and acrobatics for physical training, discipline and self-defense, and improved agriculture with the introduction of tractors. Goswami reformed taxation, laws and duties, advocating self-reliance through agriculture.{{Citation needed|date = July 2014}} He opened Kirtanghar to the public, provided famine assistance, freed monks from celibacy, advocated for tribal society like [[Jalia Kaibarta|"Keot/Kaibarta"]] and [[Karbi people|"Karbi"]] and other marginalised communities, taught [[swaraj]] and performed [[satyagraha]] in 1941. Goswami was arrested in 1943, and imprisoned for two years.