Jadabendra Nath Panja

Jadabendra Nath Panja, also written Jadabendranath Panja, joined the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1920.

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Freedom movement · Law · Public service

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1886–1961 · Freedom fighter and state minister

Jadabendra Nath Panja, also written Jadabendranath Panja, joined the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1920. The Nehru Archive records his imprisonment in 1932–34 and again in 1942, and his later service as West Bengal’s minister for Cottage and Small-scale Industries.^[1]

He served as president of the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee from 1958 to 1961.^[1] Dutta traces his earlier life in Burdwan: a law degree from Ripon College in 1911, followed by his departure from legal practice for the freedom movement in 1920.^[2]

Dutta explicitly discusses his Ugra Kshatriya family on p. 310 and includes him among community figures in the freedom movement on p. 314.^[2]

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The Nehru Archive — Jadabendra Nath Panja (1886–1961). Archival biographical note read directly. Community identification is separately sourced to Dutta, pp. 310 and 314. Source details
Achintya Kumar Dutta, “Prosperity, Dominance, and Social Mobility: Emergence of a Mobile Caste in Colonial Southwest Bengal” (2023), pp. 297–324. Complete chapter, including endnotes and references, read directly in the supplied book. Page references use its printed pagination. Origin hypotheses remain attributed to the author. Link opens the publisher’s book record. Source details