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Dr Ranjit Kumar Panja

Ranjit Kumar Panja combined a career in medicine with public service.

Official parliamentary portrait of Dr Ranjit Kumar Panja
Parliament of India, Lok Sabha. Original portrait. Reproduced with attribution under GODL–India.

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Life and work

1932–2006 · Dermatologist and parliamentarian[1][2]

Ranjit Kumar Panja combined a career in medicine with public service. His parliamentary biography records his education at Medical College, Calcutta, and the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. He taught dermatology at Medical College, Calcutta, where he was a professor from 1974 to 1990.[1]

Elected to the Twelfth Lok Sabha from Barasat in 1998, he served on the Committee on Human Resource Development and its medical-education subcommittee. His biography also records research publications, professional leadership in dermatology and medical camps for rural communities in West Bengal.[1]

This profile follows the notable-person list in Wikipedia’s Aguri article. The biographical sources cited here document the person’s life and work.[3]

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  1. Dr Ranjit Kumar Panja — Twelfth Lok Sabha biographical sketch. The reproduced biography was read directly. It is a period account, not a complete retrospective biography. Source details
  2. “Ranjit Panja dead” — The Telegraph. Death year corroboration only. Source details
  3. “Aguri (caste)” — reference article and bibliography. The listed community connections are attributed to this article. Life and career accounts are separately sourced; the underlying books have not all been checked. Source details

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