The Vision of a Poor Teacher of Bangladesh Shattered

Bangladesh was a Part of United Bengal of India and the most Powerful and Rich State in the British Period.

Bengal was ruled by Buddhist King in 750-1120 AD in the name of Pala Dynasty, Sena dynasty in 12th century, Turkic in the 13 th century and  Mughal since 1575 onwards. Bengal’s trade and wealth impressed the Mughals so much that they called the region “the Paradise of the Nations”. The British East India Company under the leadership of Robert Clive captured Bengal in 1757 by defeating the Nawab of Murshidabad, Siraj Ud Daulah in the battle of Palase. Since then the center of Indian culture and trade were shifted from Delhi to Calcutta . The British administration faced a catastrophic, Bengal famine in 1770 by dint of which 1/3 population of Bengal was perished. The British troops captured Kolkata and named it the Capital of British India in 1772, although the capital shifted to the hilly town of Shimla during the summer months every year. The most glorious part of Bengal was the rule of British period. Calcutta, the Capital of British India was established by fastening the three villages namely Kalikata, Sutanuti and Gobindapur in the year of 1797-1805, the period was largely responsible for the growth of the city and its public artistry which led to the description of Kolkata as “The City of Palaces”. It was British who first established the infrastructure project like railroads and Telegraph system for communication and Institute for education only in very limited places. The poor Teacher, Sri Rasamoy Roychoudhury, who born in 1902, in a small village of Bengal called Derai, graduated from a college namely Called M.C.College of Sylhet, one such  learning center was  established by the British Kingdom in the Eastern sector of Bengal. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered every morning in front of his house to get the meaning of Telegram written in English. That tempted him to establish a school in his village Derai for giving education to every child of the region.  There by the Derai High School was established.  He saw the industrial growth in the Eastern Bank of River Hooghly, particularly jute and textile industry which were started by the British in 1850. In 1877, the Queen Victoria took the title “Empress of India” the British declared Calcutta, the Capital of British Raj. The teacher desired to educate the children of his school, who will one day establish similar industry on the Bank of River Surma, the life line of Sylhet of present Bangladesh. But that had not happened due to partition of Bengal in 1947.