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Compiler of Rajput O Ugrakshatriya
Haricharan Bandhu compiled Rajput O Ugrakshatriya, a Bengali work on community history whose second edition appeared in 1940. Its dedication, prefaces and historical arguments are preserved in a digitised copy and in this website’s reading collection.[1]
His signed foreword speaks from within the community and explains his purpose in gathering its history. Dutta later discusses the work as part of the community’s efforts to define its historical identity.[1][2] The book’s accounts of ancestry are presented here as the author’s arguments.
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His own foreword provides first-person evidence of community identification. The surviving text establishes his authorship; a fuller life history is still to be documented.[1]