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BHARAT'CHANDRA RAI. 153
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the Subadar's treasury. So long as they paid ^tkeir
revenue regularly, and could maintain sufficient influence
in the Subadar's court by means of representatives or
vakeels and occasional rich presents, they were seldom
Interfered with by the Subadar, and were even allowed
to carry on petty warfare among themselves. As al?
rival, zernmdars strove for power, influence and prestige,
such warfare was by no means unfrequent. Narendra
Narain had such disputes with Kirti Chandra Eai
Bahadur, the lord of Burdwan, and made.insultinj allu-
sions with reference to Kirti Chandra's mother. The
(Jueen mother was incensed and instantly sent an army
which attacked and took the forts of Bhabauipur and
Pandua, and desolated the states of Narendra Narain.
Narendra Narain was all at once reduced to penury, and
his young son Bharat Chandra fled for shelter to the
house of his maternal uncle at ^awapara near Gazipur
in the Purgana of Mandalghat. There he studied
grammar and dictionary, and at the age of 14 returned
to his native village, and married a girl of the village
of Sarada. We do riot know if it was a love-marriage;
but certain it is that the match was considered dishonor-
able, and Bharat Chandra's elder brothers reproved him
for it, on which the future poet left his home in disgust,
and took shelter with one Bam Chandra Munshi, a Kayest
inhabitant t>f Debanandpur, near Bansbaria in the dis-
trict of Hugli, and there commenced the study of
Persia'n.*
* We should here mention ^lhat Pundit Ramgati Nyayaratna
gives a different story. He says Bharat Chandra quarrelled with
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the Subadar's treasury. So long as they paid ^tkeir
revenue regularly, and could maintain sufficient influence
in the Subadar's court by means of representatives or
vakeels and occasional rich presents, they were seldom
Interfered with by the Subadar, and were even allowed
to carry on petty warfare among themselves. As al?
rival, zernmdars strove for power, influence and prestige,
such warfare was by no means unfrequent. Narendra
Narain had such disputes with Kirti Chandra Eai
Bahadur, the lord of Burdwan, and made.insultinj allu-
sions with reference to Kirti Chandra's mother. The
(Jueen mother was incensed and instantly sent an army
which attacked and took the forts of Bhabauipur and
Pandua, and desolated the states of Narendra Narain.
Narendra Narain was all at once reduced to penury, and
his young son Bharat Chandra fled for shelter to the
house of his maternal uncle at ^awapara near Gazipur
in the Purgana of Mandalghat. There he studied
grammar and dictionary, and at the age of 14 returned
to his native village, and married a girl of the village
of Sarada. We do riot know if it was a love-marriage;
but certain it is that the match was considered dishonor-
able, and Bharat Chandra's elder brothers reproved him
for it, on which the future poet left his home in disgust,
and took shelter with one Bam Chandra Munshi, a Kayest
inhabitant t>f Debanandpur, near Bansbaria in the dis-
trict of Hugli, and there commenced the study of
Persia'n.*
* We should here mention ^lhat Pundit Ramgati Nyayaratna
gives a different story. He says Bharat Chandra quarrelled with