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 t 79 1 RAJ NAJRAJN BOSE. Raj Narain Boso, eon of Nan da Krishna Bose, came of the well-known Boee family of Boral — a village in the 24 Pur- ganas, not very far off from Calcutta. He was horn in 1826. Having completed his primary education at the village pathsala, Raj Narain entered the Hare School, Calcutta, at the age of 8. It is said that he earned so unique a dis- tinction in hie school career that his answer papers in the vari- ous examinations appeared in well-known newspapers of the day. In 1840 he completed the school course and joined the Hindu College, which he left in 1844, having obtained a thorough mastery over the English language and literature. At this time that well-known literateur, Akshoy Kumar Dutt, was editing the Tattwabodhini Patrika, a vernacular magazine of established reputation. Raj Narain was appointed his assistant. His career as a Brahmo preacher began from this time. His connection with the Tattwabodhini PatrVca brought him into a vp.ry close touch with the Brahmo Samaj and gave him a life-long friend in Askhoy Kumar Dutt. Many of the the possession of Raj Narain's family and they air tend to show that the fouling between the two was very deep. Frum May, 1848 till February, 1851 Raj Narain acted as Second Teacher of the Hindu College. Ho was then ap- pointed Head Master of the Midnapur H. E. School His sermons and lectures in the Midnapur Brahmo Sanuy, whieh have been published in a book form, would amply repay peru- sal. While there he wrote several books, but what are; more noteworthy are his labours in connection, with the widow -re- marriage movement in Midnapur. This arid many other causes conspired to break his health and Raj Narain became a prey to Cerebral complaints, which necessitated his retirement in 1869. Since then he lived mostly in Dooghur near Baidynatfi* The end came on Saturday, the 7th September, 1900, when he succumbed to paralysis at the age of seventy-four.
 * letters exchanged between these two great-minded men are in