Pratapaditya

Pratapaditya Guha
Zamindar of Jessore (1584-1601)
Raja of Jessore (1602-1611 or 12)[1]
Reign1584–1611
PredecessorSrihari Vikramaditya (Zamindar)
Independent as (king)
Born1561
Jessore, Bengal
Died1611
Benaras[2][3]
FatherShrihari Vikramaditya Chakrabarti (or Sridhara)
ReligionHinduism

Pratapaditya Guha[4] was a rebellious Kayashtha king of Jessore[5] of lower Bengal, before being defeated by the Mughal Empire.[4] He was eulogized by 19th and 20th century Bengali historians as a resistor against Mughal in Jessore but the statements are still debated.[6][4]

  1. ^ "Baharistan I Ghaybi Volume I". 1936.
  2. ^ A History of Calcutta's Streets. Firma KLM. 1987.
  3. ^ History of the Bengali-speaking People. UBS Publishers' Distributors. 2001. ISBN 978-81-7476-355-6.
  4. ^ a b c Ray, Aniruddha (1976). "Case Study of a Revolt in Medieval Bengal: Raja Pratapaditya Roy". In De, Barun (ed.). Essays in Honour of Prof. S.C. Sarkar. Delhi: People's Pub. House.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference :3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Chakrabarty, Dipesh (2015). The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth. University of Chicago Press. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-226-10045-6. Retrieved 26 July 2016.