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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Day, Rev. Lalbehari&#039;&#039;&#039; (1824-1894) Writer, Babgali missionary, born in a poor &#039;&#039;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;suvar&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;n&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;a&lt;/del&gt;-banik&#039;&#039; family in the village of Sonapalsahi in Burdwan district. Lalbehari Day&#039;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;;&lt;/del&gt;s father, Radhakanta, was a small bill broker in Kolkata. Realising the importance of English for material advancement, Radhakanta sent his son to General Assembly&#039;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;;&lt;/del&gt;s Institute, [[alexander duff]]&#039;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;;&lt;/del&gt;s free school. Duff was a missionary, and students at the school were exposed to his Christian ideas. Lalbehari soon became skeptical about his own faith and got inclined towards Christianity. He was converted to [[christianity]] by [[rev&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]][[&lt;/del&gt;. krishna mohan banerji]] in 1843. In 1851, he was ordained and sent to Burdwan district.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Day, Rev. Lalbehari&#039;&#039;&#039; (1824-1894) Writer, &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt; &lt;/ins&gt;Babgali missionary, born in a poor &#039;&#039;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;suvarna&lt;/ins&gt;-banik&#039;&#039; family in the village of Sonapalsahi in Burdwan district. Lalbehari Day&#039;s father, Radhakanta, was a small bill broker in Kolkata. Realising the importance of English for material advancement, Radhakanta sent his son to General Assembly&#039;s Institute, [[&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Duff, Rev. Alexander|&lt;/ins&gt;alexander duff]]&#039;s free school. Duff was a missionary, and students at the school were exposed to his Christian ideas. Lalbehari soon became skeptical about his own faith and got inclined towards Christianity. He was converted to [[christianity]] by [[&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Banerji, Rev. Krishna Mohan|&lt;/ins&gt;rev. krishna mohan banerji]] in 1843. In 1851, he was ordained and sent to Burdwan district.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt; &lt;/del&gt;Lalbehari&#039;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;;&lt;/del&gt;s work at Burdwan enabled him to see rural life from close quarters, an experience that he drew upon to write &#039;&#039;Bengal Peasant Life (&#039;&#039;1874). At this time landlord-tenant relations had greatly deteriorated, and there was peasant unrest in various parts of Bengal. &#039;&#039;Bengal Peasant Life &#039;&#039;explains the reasons for this situation. Rev. Lalbehari also wrote two novels, &#039;&#039;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Chandramukh&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;i&lt;/del&gt;&#039;&#039;,&#039;&#039; A Tale of Bengali Life&#039;&#039; (1859) and &#039;&#039;Govinda &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;S&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;a&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;manta&lt;/del&gt;&#039;&#039;, which portray the suffering of peasants under the zamindari system.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lalbehari&#039;s work at Burdwan enabled him to see rural life from close quarters, an experience that he drew upon to write &#039;&#039;Bengal Peasant Life (&#039;&#039;1874). At this time landlord-tenant relations had greatly deteriorated, and there was peasant unrest in various parts of Bengal. &#039;&#039;Bengal Peasant Life &#039;&#039;explains the reasons for this situation. Rev. Lalbehari also wrote two novels, &#039;&#039;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Chandramukhi&lt;/ins&gt;&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;A Tale of Bengali Life&#039;&#039; (1859) and &#039;&#039;Govinda &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Samanta&lt;/ins&gt;&#039;&#039;, which portray the suffering of peasants under the zamindari system.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt; &lt;/del&gt;At Burdwan, Lalbehari also started collecting [[folk tales]], which were later anthologised in his &#039;&#039;Folk Tales of Bengal&#039;&#039; (1875). This scholarly compilation&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&#039;&#039; &#039;&#039;&lt;/del&gt;is again a path-breaking effort in cataloguing the cultural heritage of rural society. This compilation not only preserved folk tales that might otherwise have been lost, but also paved the way for the modern study of [[folk literature]].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;At Burdwan, Lalbehari also started collecting [[&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Folk Tales|&lt;/ins&gt;folk tales]], which were later anthologised in his &#039;&#039;Folk Tales of Bengal&#039;&#039; (1875). This scholarly compilation is again a path-breaking effort in cataloguing the cultural heritage of rural society. This compilation not only preserved folk tales that might otherwise have been lost, but also paved the way for the modern study of [[&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Folk Literature|&lt;/ins&gt;folk literature]].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt; &lt;/del&gt;Another contribution made by Lalbehari was to vernacular education. &#039;&#039;Arunodaya&#039;&#039;,&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&#039;&#039; &#039;&#039;&lt;/del&gt;a fortnightly journal that he published and edited, made it a policy to publish features on the importance of education in the vernaculars. Lalbehari&#039;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;;&lt;/del&gt;s powerful advocacy of Bangla as the medium of instructions seemed incredible to most Bengali literati of the time. Nevertheless, Lalbehari Day&#039;;s views on education were given due attention by the Education Commission, 1882 (popularly known as the [[hunter commission]]) which was assigned by the government to outline an education policy for popularizing education among the depressed classes.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Another contribution made by Lalbehari was to vernacular education. &#039;&#039;Arunodaya&#039;&#039;, a fortnightly journal that he published and edited, made it a policy to publish features on the importance of education in the vernaculars. Lalbehari&#039;s powerful advocacy of Bangla as the medium of instructions seemed incredible to most Bengali literati of the time. Nevertheless, Lalbehari Day&#039;;s views on education were given due attention by the Education Commission, 1882 (popularly known as the [[&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Hunter Commission|&lt;/ins&gt;hunter commission]]) which was assigned by the government to outline an education policy for popularizing education among the depressed classes.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt; &lt;/del&gt;Lalbehari was against the zamindari system. Indeed, he may be called the first man to investigate and report the actual problems of the depressed classes under the operation of the permanent settlement and suggest remedies towards solving the problem. His writings on peasant sufferings captured the imagination of his contemporaries, [[bankimchandra chattopadhyay]] and [[kishori chand mitra]], both of whom wrote powerfully about peasant problems. Their opinions greatly influenced the report of the Rent Commission of 1880 which led to the enactment of the famous [[bengal tenancy act]] of 1885, which has been termed as the Magna Carta of peasant rights in Bengal. [Sirajul Islam&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;] [Islam, Sirajul  Chief Editor, Banglapedia&lt;/del&gt;]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lalbehari was against the zamindari system. Indeed, he may be called the first man to investigate and report the actual problems of the depressed classes under the operation of the permanent settlement and suggest remedies towards solving the problem. His writings on peasant sufferings captured the imagination of his contemporaries, [[&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Chattopadhyay, Bankimchandra|&lt;/ins&gt;bankimchandra chattopadhyay]] and [[&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Mitra, Kishori Chand|&lt;/ins&gt;kishori chand mitra]], both of whom wrote powerfully about peasant problems. Their opinions greatly influenced the report of the Rent Commission of 1880 which led to the enactment of the famous [[&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Bengal Tenancy Act 1885|&lt;/ins&gt;bengal tenancy act]] of 1885, which has been termed as the Magna Carta of peasant rights in Bengal. [Sirajul Islam]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;p class=Normal &amp;gt;&lt;/del&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Day, Rev. Lalbehari&#039;&#039;&#039; (1824-1894) Writer, Babgali missionary, born in a poor &#039;&#039;suvar&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;n&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;a-banik&#039;&#039; family in the village of Sonapalsahi in Burdwan district. Lalbehari Day&#039;;s father, Radhakanta, was a small bill broker in Kolkata. Realising the importance of English for material advancement, Radhakanta sent his son to General Assembly&#039;;s Institute, [[alexander duff]]&#039;;s free school. Duff was a missionary, and students at the school were exposed to his Christian ideas. Lalbehari soon became skeptical about his own faith and got inclined towards Christianity. He was converted to [[christianity]] by [[rev]][[. krishna mohan banerji]] in 1843. In 1851, he was ordained and sent to Burdwan district.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Day, Rev. Lalbehari&#039;&#039;&#039; (1824-1894) Writer, Babgali missionary, born in a poor &#039;&#039;suvar&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;n&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;a-banik&#039;&#039; family in the village of Sonapalsahi in Burdwan district. Lalbehari Day&#039;;s father, Radhakanta, was a small bill broker in Kolkata. Realising the importance of English for material advancement, Radhakanta sent his son to General Assembly&#039;;s Institute, [[alexander duff]]&#039;;s free school. Duff was a missionary, and students at the school were exposed to his Christian ideas. Lalbehari soon became skeptical about his own faith and got inclined towards Christianity. He was converted to [[christianity]] by [[rev]][[. krishna mohan banerji]] in 1843. In 1851, he was ordained and sent to Burdwan district.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;  &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;p class=Normal &amp;gt;&lt;/del&gt;Lalbehari&#039;;s work at Burdwan enabled him to see rural life from close quarters, an experience that he drew upon to write &#039;&#039;Bengal Peasant Life (&#039;&#039;1874). At this time landlord-tenant relations had greatly deteriorated, and there was peasant unrest in various parts of Bengal. &#039;&#039;Bengal Peasant Life &#039;&#039;explains the reasons for this situation. Rev. Lalbehari also wrote two novels, &#039;&#039;Chandramukh&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;i&#039;&#039;,&#039;&#039; A Tale of Bengali Life&#039;&#039; (1859) and &#039;&#039;Govinda S&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;a&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;manta&#039;&#039;, which portray the suffering of peasants under the zamindari system.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;  Lalbehari&#039;;s work at Burdwan enabled him to see rural life from close quarters, an experience that he drew upon to write &#039;&#039;Bengal Peasant Life (&#039;&#039;1874). At this time landlord-tenant relations had greatly deteriorated, and there was peasant unrest in various parts of Bengal. &#039;&#039;Bengal Peasant Life &#039;&#039;explains the reasons for this situation. Rev. Lalbehari also wrote two novels, &#039;&#039;Chandramukh&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;i&#039;&#039;,&#039;&#039; A Tale of Bengali Life&#039;&#039; (1859) and &#039;&#039;Govinda S&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;a&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;manta&#039;&#039;, which portray the suffering of peasants under the zamindari system.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;  &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;p class=Normal &amp;gt;&lt;/del&gt;At Burdwan, Lalbehari also started collecting [[folk tales]], which were later anthologised in his &#039;&#039;Folk Tales of Bengal&#039;&#039; (1875). This scholarly compilation&#039;&#039; &#039;&#039;is again a path-breaking effort in cataloguing the cultural heritage of rural society. This compilation not only preserved folk tales that might otherwise have been lost, but also paved the way for the modern study of [[folk literature]].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;  At Burdwan, Lalbehari also started collecting [[folk tales]], which were later anthologised in his &#039;&#039;Folk Tales of Bengal&#039;&#039; (1875). This scholarly compilation&#039;&#039; &#039;&#039;is again a path-breaking effort in cataloguing the cultural heritage of rural society. This compilation not only preserved folk tales that might otherwise have been lost, but also paved the way for the modern study of [[folk literature]].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;  &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;p class=Normal &amp;gt;&lt;/del&gt;Another contribution made by Lalbehari was to vernacular education. &#039;&#039;Arunodaya&#039;&#039;,&#039;&#039; &#039;&#039;a fortnightly journal that he published and edited, made it a policy to publish features on the importance of education in the vernaculars. Lalbehari&#039;;s powerful advocacy of Bangla as the medium of instructions seemed incredible to most Bengali literati of the time. Nevertheless, Lalbehari Day&#039;;s views on education were given due attention by the Education Commission, 1882 (popularly known as the [[hunter commission]]) which was assigned by the government to outline an education policy for popularizing education among the depressed classes.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;  Another contribution made by Lalbehari was to vernacular education. &#039;&#039;Arunodaya&#039;&#039;,&#039;&#039; &#039;&#039;a fortnightly journal that he published and edited, made it a policy to publish features on the importance of education in the vernaculars. Lalbehari&#039;;s powerful advocacy of Bangla as the medium of instructions seemed incredible to most Bengali literati of the time. Nevertheless, Lalbehari Day&#039;;s views on education were given due attention by the Education Commission, 1882 (popularly known as the [[hunter commission]]) which was assigned by the government to outline an education policy for popularizing education among the depressed classes.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;  &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;p class=Normal &amp;gt;&lt;/del&gt;Lalbehari was against the zamindari system. Indeed, he may be called the first man to investigate and report the actual problems of the depressed classes under the operation of the permanent settlement and suggest remedies towards solving the problem. His writings on peasant sufferings captured the imagination of his contemporaries, [[bankimchandra chattopadhyay]] and [[kishori chand mitra]], both of whom wrote powerfully about peasant problems. Their opinions greatly influenced the report of the Rent Commission of 1880 which led to the enactment of the famous [[bengal tenancy act]] of 1885, which has been termed as the Magna Carta of peasant rights in Bengal. [Sirajul Islam] [Islam, Sirajul  Chief Editor, Banglapedia]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;  Lalbehari was against the zamindari system. Indeed, he may be called the first man to investigate and report the actual problems of the depressed classes under the operation of the permanent settlement and suggest remedies towards solving the problem. His writings on peasant sufferings captured the imagination of his contemporaries, [[bankimchandra chattopadhyay]] and [[kishori chand mitra]], both of whom wrote powerfully about peasant problems. Their opinions greatly influenced the report of the Rent Commission of 1880 which led to the enactment of the famous [[bengal tenancy act]] of 1885, which has been termed as the Magna Carta of peasant rights in Bengal. [Sirajul Islam] [Islam, Sirajul  Chief Editor, Banglapedia]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Biography]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Biography]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;lt;p class=Normal &amp;gt;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Day, Rev. Lalbehari&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1824-1894) Writer, Babgali missionary, born in a poor &amp;#039;&amp;#039;suvar&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;n&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;a-banik&amp;#039;&amp;#039; family in the village of Sonapalsahi in Burdwan district. Lalbehari Day&amp;#039;;s father, Radhakanta, was a small bill broker in Kolkata. Realising the importance of English for material advancement, Radhakanta sent his son to General Assembly&amp;#039;;s Institute, [[alexander duff]]&amp;#039;;s free school. Duff was a missionary, and students at the school were exposed to his Christian ideas. Lalbehari soon became skeptical about his own faith and got inclined towards Christianity. He was converted to [[christianity]] by [[rev]][[. krishna mohan banerji]] in 1843. In 1851, he was ordained and sent to Burdwan district. &lt;br /&gt;
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 &amp;lt;p class=Normal &amp;gt;Lalbehari&amp;#039;;s work at Burdwan enabled him to see rural life from close quarters, an experience that he drew upon to write &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Bengal Peasant Life (&amp;#039;&amp;#039;1874). At this time landlord-tenant relations had greatly deteriorated, and there was peasant unrest in various parts of Bengal. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Bengal Peasant Life &amp;#039;&amp;#039;explains the reasons for this situation. Rev. Lalbehari also wrote two novels, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Chandramukh&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;i&amp;#039;&amp;#039;,&amp;#039;&amp;#039; A Tale of Bengali Life&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1859) and &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Govinda S&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;a&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;manta&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, which portray the suffering of peasants under the zamindari system. &lt;br /&gt;
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 &amp;lt;p class=Normal &amp;gt;At Burdwan, Lalbehari also started collecting [[folk tales]], which were later anthologised in his &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Folk Tales of Bengal&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1875). This scholarly compilation&amp;#039;&amp;#039; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;is again a path-breaking effort in cataloguing the cultural heritage of rural society. This compilation not only preserved folk tales that might otherwise have been lost, but also paved the way for the modern study of [[folk literature]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &amp;lt;p class=Normal &amp;gt;Another contribution made by Lalbehari was to vernacular education. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Arunodaya&amp;#039;&amp;#039;,&amp;#039;&amp;#039; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;a fortnightly journal that he published and edited, made it a policy to publish features on the importance of education in the vernaculars. Lalbehari&amp;#039;;s powerful advocacy of Bangla as the medium of instructions seemed incredible to most Bengali literati of the time. Nevertheless, Lalbehari Day&amp;#039;;s views on education were given due attention by the Education Commission, 1882 (popularly known as the [[hunter commission]]) which was assigned by the government to outline an education policy for popularizing education among the depressed classes. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &amp;lt;p class=Normal &amp;gt;Lalbehari was against the zamindari system. Indeed, he may be called the first man to investigate and report the actual problems of the depressed classes under the operation of the permanent settlement and suggest remedies towards solving the problem. His writings on peasant sufferings captured the imagination of his contemporaries, [[bankimchandra chattopadhyay]] and [[kishori chand mitra]], both of whom wrote powerfully about peasant problems. Their opinions greatly influenced the report of the Rent Commission of 1880 which led to the enactment of the famous [[bengal tenancy act]] of 1885, which has been termed as the Magna Carta of peasant rights in Bengal. [Sirajul Islam] [Islam, Sirajul  Chief Editor, Banglapedia]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Biography]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[bn:দে, রেভারেন্ড লালবিহারী]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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