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{{short description|Sanskrit scholar and Bengali writer}}{{Infobox person
| name = Madanmohan Tarkalankar
| image = Madan Mohan Tarkalankar.jpg
| other_names = Madan Mohan Tarkalankar
| birth_date = {{birth date|1817|1|03}}
| birth_place = Bilvagram, [[Nakashipara]], [[Bethuadahri]], [[Nadia district]], [[Bengal presidency]], [[British India]] (now [[West Bengal]], [[India]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=196th Birth Centenary Of Madan Mohon Tarkalankar Observed In Nakashipara - News from Nadia |url=http://www.newsfromnadia.com/index.php/news-reader/items/id-196th-birth-centenary-of-madan-mohon-tarkalankar-observed-in-nakashipara.html |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=TNIE>{{Cite book |title=কবিবর মদনমোহন তর্কালঙ্কারের জীবনচরিত ও তদগ্রন্থ সমালোচনা |publisher=The new Indian Press |year=1870 |location=[[Kolkata]]}}</ref>
| death_date = {{Death-date and age|9 March 1858|3 January 1817}}
| father = Ramadhan Chattopadhyay
| children = Bhuvanmala and Kundamala
| death_place = [[Kolkata]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]](now [[West Bengal]], [[India]])
| movement = [[Bengali Renaissance]]
| monuments = [[Asannagar Madan Mohan Tarkalankar College]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Asannagar Madan Mohan Tarkalankar College |url=http://www.asannagarmmtcollege.org/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728091000/http://asannagarmmtcollege.org/index.html |archive-date=3 January 2013 |access-date=28 July 2013}}</ref> Post Graduate in Sanskrit Department of Krishnanath College
| education = [[Presidency University, Kolkata|Calcutta Presidency College]]
}}

'''Madanmohan Tarkalankar''' (3 January 1817 – 9 March 1858) is one of the Sanskrit scholars of the [[Indian subcontinent]] in the nineteenth century who has made a special contribution to the development of [[Bengali language#Characters|written Bengali language]]. He is also considered as one of the pioneers of the [[Bengali renaissance]]. He was a professor at [[Fort William College]] and authored several textbooks on early childhood education.

== Birth and family identity ==
He was born in 1817 in a Hindu Brahmin family in [[Bethuadahri|Bethuadhari]], [[Nakashipara]] in a Hindu Brahmin family. His father's name is Ramdhan Chattopadhyay He had two children named Bhuvanmala and Kundamala.<ref name=TNIE/>
==Education==
He studied at the [[Sanskrit College]], where he was a classmate of [[Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar|Ishwar chandra Vidyasagar]]. He later studied at the [[Presidency University, Kolkata|Presidency University]].

==Work life ==
He was a professor of literature at [[Fort William College]]. Later in November 1850 he was appointed as the [[District courts of India|District Judge]] of [[Murshidabad]]. He was appointed [[Deputy Magistrate]] of [[Murshidabad]] (in December 1855) and [[Kandi, Murshidabad|Kandi]] in 1856.<ref name="anandabazar">{{Cite web |title=Anandabazar Patrika- Murshidabad and Nadia |url=http://www.anandabazar.com/archive/1111001/1mur-letter.html |url-status=dead |access-date=1 April 2019}}</ref>
==Social reformer==
He was one of the founders of the practice of '[[Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act, 1856|Hindu widow marriage]]'.

{{Rquote|quote=The first widow marriage took place in 1857. The bridegroom was Srishchandra Vidyaratna and the bride was Kalimati. Madanmohan Tarkalankar was one of the people who helped to find and contact the two of them.|author=Mrinalkanti Chakraborty, a retired teacher of [[Berhampore College]]|source=<ref name="anandabazar"/>}}

Her contribution to the spread of women's education is undeniable. In 1849, when Bethun founded the Hindu Mahila School, he admitted his two daughters there. He used to teach girls in this school without pay. In 1850, he wrote a groundbreaking essay in favor of wife education in Sarvashubhakari magazine<ref>{{Cite book |last=Subodh Chandra Sengupta |first=Anjali Basu |title=Samsad Bangali Charitbidhan, {{lang|bn|সংসদ বাঙালি চরিতাভিধান}}(First Part) |publisher=Sahitya Samsad |year=2002}}</ref>
== Books ==
Madanmohan Tarkalanka devoted considerable effort to spread education in [[Bengali language]]. The book ''Shishusiksha'' written by him was also published before the book ''[[Barnaparichay]]'' written by [[Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bandyopadhyay |first=Asitkumar |title=Bangla Sahitye Vidyasagar |title-link=Asitkumar Bandyopadhyay |publisher=Dey's publishing |year=2005 |location=Kolkata |page=84-85}}</ref> He published ''Shisushiksha''{{refn|group=n|of {{lang|bn|শিশুশিক্ষা}}}} in 1849 and a second part in 1850. Later, third part and fourth part (''Bodhodoy'').{{refn|group=n|{{lang|bn|'বোধোদয়'}}}}He wrote two books in his childhood- Basabdutta and Rasatrangini.{{refn|group=n|{{lang|bn|'বাসব দত্তা','রসতরঙ্গিনী'}}}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=যারা কবি হতে চায় তাদের গীতবিতান পড়তে বলি|url=http://www.anyodhara.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=1230:%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE-%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF-%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%9F-%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%9C%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF&Itemid=95 |access-date=3 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102145408/http://anyodhara.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=1230:%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE-%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF-%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%9F-%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%9C%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF&Itemid=95 |archive-date=2 November 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

His poem "Amar Pan"' is one of the poems in Bengali textbooks for second class students in Bangladesh and is considered as an excellent guide for the formation of children's psyche.<ref>Majumdar, Swapan, ''Literature and Literary Life in Old Calcutta'', in ''Calcutta, the Living City'', Vol I, edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri, pp112-113, Oxford University Press, {{ISBN|0-19-563696-1}}.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Dainik Destiny |url=http://www.dainikdestiny.com/?view=details&type=gold&data=Cricket&pub_no=445&cat_id=1&menu_id=54&news_type_id=1&index=2&archiev=yes&arch_date=20-10-2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921170957/http://www.dainikdestiny.com/?view=details&type=gold&data=Cricket&pub_no=445&cat_id=1&menu_id=54&news_type_id=1&index=2&archiev=yes&arch_date=20-10-2012 |archive-date=21 September 2020 |access-date=3 January 2016}}</ref>

He translated 14 Sanskrit books.<ref name="anandabazar"/>
Some of his notable books are:-
* ''Rasatrangini'' (1838)
* ''Basabdutta'' (1836)
* ''Shishushiksha'' -3 parts (1839 to 1851)

== Death ==
On 9 March 1858, he died at Kandi of cholera.<ref name="anandabazar"/>

==References==
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===Notes===
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[[Category:Brahmins who fought against discrimination]]
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[[Category:Unknown-importance India articles]]
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