Professor of Music
In 1869, Keshub Chunder Sen selected from his missionaries four persons and ordained them as adhypaks or professors of four old religions of the world. Gour Govinda Ray was made the professor of Hinduism, Protap Chunder Mozoomdar, the professor of Christianity, Aghore Nath Gupta, the professor of Buddhism and Girish Chandra Sen, the professor of Islam. Subsequently, Trailokya Nath Sanyal was ordained as an adhyapak of music and was known as the singing apostle of the New Dispensation. He was named Chiranjib Sharma by Keshub Chunder Sen.
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