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  Author - Biswarup Chatterjee.           Aśoka's governance, deeply rooted in the principles of Dharma, emphasized the welfare and happiness of all beings, including those beyond his empire's borders. He regarded all men as his children and made minimal distinction between humans and animals in his policies. His efforts extended to providing medical care for both humans and animals, ensuring the availability of medicinal herbs, roots, and fruits across his empire and in neighboring regions, particularly to the west and south.  “rājāno sarvarta (tra) devānaṃrpi(pri)yasa rpi(pri)yadasino rājo dve cikicch[ā*]katā manusa - cikichā ca pasu - cikichā ca [ī*] asudani [I*] yāni manusopagāni ca [I*]...... mūlaāni ca phalāni ca yata yata nāsti sarvata hārāpitani ca ropāpitāni ca [I*] pamthesū kūpā ca khānāpitā rva(bra)cchā ca ropita[ī] paribhogaya pasu-manusānaṃ [II*] (2nd Rock Edict ).          Aśoka undertook several public welfare ...

Author - Biswarup Chatterjee.                          Down the ages, many great men came to the Indian soil. Generations of people remember them for their social, political and religious contributions. To us, they act as the Pole-Star who provides us with strength, inspiration, direction, at the hour of crises. Indeed, Lord Buddha was one of such pole stars whose life and messages had been instrumental behind the foundation, growth and progress of human civilization. But, it is a truism that people of the later generations could know hardly about the preachings of Buddha in the absence of king Aśoka, the third king of the Mauryan Empire. At one level, coming at close proximity with Lord Buddha, a metamorphosis took place in the mind of Asoka so much so that he gave up the course of violence forever. At another leave!, Aśoka erected lots of pillars, though only nineteen are survive to let the world know the valuab...

      Author - BISWARUP CHATTERJEE.             Bhadrapur, formerly known as 'Bhadur' Latitude: 24.25948 N 24°15'34.11036" Longitude: 87.94941 E 87°56'57.87492" , is an ancient as well as a prospering village of Birbhum district under West Bengal, India. The village occupies an important position in the history of Bengal, due to a controversial as well as a historical character was born in this village and letter on became famous in the history of Bengal, who is known as Maharaja (King) Nandakumar, probably born in 1705 CE. The king had an incredible sense of patriotism and nationalism, though a number of historians has referred to the patriotic thoughts of Nandakumar as his personal selfishness. It is true that Nandakumar couldn't accept the superiority as well as the principal of Sirajuddolla, the then Nawab of Bengal. He wanted the downfall of the Nawab, parallelly he was also against the British rule in his country, rather he was in favou...

  Author - Biswarup Chatterjee.     The north-western part of present-day Bangladesh and Northern part of West Bengal is generally known as the North Bengal region. The Bangladesh part denotes the Rajshahi and Rangpur division. In general, it refers to the region north of the Padma river and west of the Jamuna river. The West Bengal Part denotes the Jalpaiguri division and the Malda division together. Now this Jalpaiguri division consists of five districts viz., Alipurduar, CoochBehar, Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri and Kalimpong. Among these, one of the most popular as well as prosperous district is CoochBehar district, which is situated on the North-Eastern border of West Bengal and broadly surrounded by the Jalpaiguri to the north, Assam and Bangladesh to the east, Bangladesh and Jalpaiguri to the south and Jalpaiguri to the west. Cooch Behar district belongs to Jalpaiguri Presidency under the state of West Bengal. The Tista, Jaldhaka, Torsa, Kaljani, and Ridak etc are ...