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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Ishwar Chandra Gupta<br/>ঈশ্বরচন্দ্র গুপ্ত<br />
| image = IshwarChandraGuptaPic.jpg<br />
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| birth_date = 6 March 1812<br />
| birth_place = [[Kanchrapara]], [[24 Parganas]], [[Bengal]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1859|1|23|1812|3|6|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Kolkata]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]], [[British India]]<br />
| nationality = [[British India|Indian]]<br />
| occupation = Poet, scholar and writer<br />
| spouse = <br />
}}<br />
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'''Ishwar Chandra Gupta''' ({{lang-bn|ঈশ্বরচন্দ্র গুপ্ত}}; 6 March 1812 – 23 January 1859) was a famous [[India]]n [[Bengali people|Bengali]] poet and writer. Gupta was born in [[Kanchrapara]], [[North 24 Parganas]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]].<ref name="bp">{{cite book |last=Kahaly |first=Anirudha |year=2012 |chapter=Gupta, Ishwar Chandra |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Gupta,_Ishwar_Chandra |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref><br />
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== Early life ==<br />
Ishwar Chandra Gupta was born in a [[Baidya]] family. He was brought up in his uncle's house after the death of his mother. Gupta spent most of his childhood in [[Kolkata]]. At that time, poets were named ''Kobiwala'' and the ''kobiwalas'' were not so civilized in language. Sexual words and clashes were common. But Ishwar Chandra Gupta created a different style of poetry.<br />
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He started the newspaper ''[[Sambad Prabhakar]]'' with Jogendra Mohan Tagore on January 28, 1831,<ref name="bp" /> which finally became a daily on June 4, 1839. Many Bengali writers of the 19th century started their careers with that magazine.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bangla Literary Magazine & Editor|url=http://banglalibrary.evergreenbangla.com/blog/492|access-date=10 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302021629/http://banglalibrary.evergreenbangla.com/blog/492|archive-date=2 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> He reintroduced into Bengali poetry the mediaeval style with double meaning (already seen in Sandhyakaranandi and Bharatchandra):<br />
::''কে বলে ঈশ্বর গুপ্ত, ব্যপ্ত চরাচর,''<br />
::''যাহার প্রভায় প্রভা পায় প্রভাকর।''<br />
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::''Ke bole Ishwar Gupta, byapta charachar,''<br />
::''Jahar prabhaye prabha paye Prabhakar.''.<br />
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'Ishwar' means God, 'Gupta' means hidden and 'Prabhakar' is the sun. So a translation runs:<br />
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::Who says God is hidden? He is omnipresent<br />
::From Him the Sun gets its luminescence.<br />
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Also, Ishwar (Chandra) Gupta ran the journal ''Prabhakar''. So a second meaning of the poem, making a tongue-in-cheek reference to the author, runs:<br />
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::Who says Ishwar (Gupta) is hidden? His reach touches the world<br />
::For his brilliance makes the ''Prabhakar'' luminescent.<br />
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==Literary style==<br />
He brought modern era of poetry in [[Bengali language|Bengali]]. He did not describe the life of Gods and Goddesses, but the daily life of human beings. He also wrote biographies of many Bengali poets and musicians.<br />
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Ishwarchandra Gupta always satires the so-called modern class who blindly followed the colonial British power.<br />
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::Tumi ma kalpataru<br />
::Amra shob posha goru<br />
::Shikhi ni shing bankano<br />
::Khai kebol khol-bichuli-ghash<br />
::Jano ranga amla<br />
::::Tule mamla<br />
::::::Na bhange gamla<br />
::Ma!<br />
::Pele bhushi<br />
::::Tatei kushi<br />
::::::Ghushi khele bachbo na!<br />
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== Political views ==<br />
In the early days he was a conservative, opposing the [[Young Bengal]] movement as well as frowning on widow remarriage. His views on widow remarriage put him at odds with [[Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar]]. He was one of the earliest advocates of a Hindu view of Indian society. Later in his life, his views began to change and he championed the cause for the remarriage of virgin widows and women's education.<ref name="bp" /><br />
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== Important works ==<br />
*Life of Bharat Chandra Roy<br />
*Probodh Pravakara<br />
*Kobitabolir Saar Sangraha<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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{{Bengal Renaissance}}<br />
{{Authority control}}<br />
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[[Category:19th-century Indian poets]]<br />
[[Category:Bengali male poets]]<br />
[[Category:Bengali-language poets]]<br />
[[Category:Bengali-language writers]]<br />
[[Category:1812 births]]<br />
[[Category:1859 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Hindu poets]]<br />
[[Category:People from North 24 Parganas district]]<br />
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