Kaliprasanna Singha - Early Life

Early Life

Though the exact date of Kaiprasanna Singha's birth is debatable, on 24 February 1840, the Calcutta Courier published a news that celebrations were made on 23 February 1840 on the occasion of the birth of the son of Nandalal Singha of Jorasanko. The confusion about his year of birth is that initially researchers found his death announcement where it was said that he died at the age of 29 in 1840. However, if the news published in Calcutta Courier, found at a later date, is taken into account, his date of birth would be somewhere near 23 February 1840. Kaliprasanna was born in the renowned "Singha" family of Jorasanko in North Kolkata.His father was Nandalal Singha. His grandfather Jay Krishna was one of the directors of Hindu College. Though the exact date of Kaiprasanna Singha's birth is debatable, on 24 February 1840, the Calcutta Courier published a news that celebrations were made on 23 February 1840 on the occasion of the birth of the son of Nandalal Singha of Jorasanko. Kaliprasanna's father died when he was only six years old. Babu Hara Chandra Ghosh, a judge of the lower court, was appointed as the guardian after his father's death. In his short span of life (1841–1870), Kaliprasanna was a man of unbelievable versatile qualities. Kaliprasanna married the daughter of Loknath Basu of Bagbazar in 1854, but she died in a few years. Sometime later, Kaliprasanna married Sharatkumari, the daughter of Chandranath Basu, who was a granddaughter of Raja Prasanna Narayan Deb.