Dwarikanath Barori

Dwarikanath Barori
দ্বারিকানাথ বারুরী
Provincial Minister of East Bengal
In office
1950–1953
LeaderNurul Amin
PortfolioRural Development and Cooperatives
Preceded bynew office
Succeeded bySheikh Mujibur Rahman
Provincial Minister of Bengal
In office
1946–1947
LeaderHuseyn Suhrawardy
PortfolioPublic Works and Housing
Preceded byunknown
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Personal details
Born1907
Faridpur District, Eastern Bengal and Assam, British India
Died1986(1986-00-00) (aged 78–79)
Madaripur, Bangladesh
PartyEBSCF (1947–1958)
Other political
affiliations
OccupationLawyer

Dwarikanath Barori (1907–1986) was a Bangladeshi lawyer and Scheduled Caste politician. He served as a provincial minister of Bengal in British India and later of East Bengal under Pakistan.

Early life

Barori was born in 1907 in Madaripur Subdivision, Faridpur District, Eastern Bengal and Assam, British India (present-day Rajoir Upazila, Madaripur District, Bangladesh).[1][2] He was a member of the Faridpur branch of the anti-colonial secret organisation Jugantar.[3]

Political career

Pre-independence

Barori began his political career by joining the Indian National Congress (INC). In 1946, he was elected a member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly from a Scheduled Caste constituency in Faridpur. In the same year, he was expelled from the INC, after which he joined the All India Scheduled Caste Federation (AISCF).[3][2][4] He was appointed a minister of Bengal Province as a member of the Suhrawardy ministry, led by the All-India Muslim League (AIML).[2] In 1947, in the Bengal Legislative Assembly, he voted in favour of the partition of India and in favour of including Bengal in the proposed state of Pakistan.[5] During the Sylhet referendum, he worked on behalf of the AIML.[2]

East Bengal, Pakistan

After the independence of Pakistan, the East Bengal Scheduled Castes Federation (EBSCF) was formed in the newly established country, and Barori became its president.[6] In 1950, he was appointed provincial minister of East Bengal as a member of the Amin ministry.[2] The EBSCF subsequently split over the issue of a separate electoral system, dividing into two factions led respectively by Barori and Rasaraj Mandal. In the 1954 legislative election, Barori's faction was completely defeated.[6] In 1960, he was appointed a member of the Constitution Commission formed to propose the new constitution.[7]

Personal life and death

Mrinal Kanti Barori, a leftist politician and revolutionary from Madaripur, was his son. Barori died in Madaripur, Bangladesh, in 1986.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Rahman, Sheikh Nasima (2020). "মুক্তিযুদ্ধে রাজৈর উপজেলা" [The Liberation War in Rajoir Upazila]. In Harun-or-Rashid (ed.). বাংলাদেশ মুক্তিযুদ্ধ জ্ঞানকোষ [Encyclopaedia of the Bangladesh Liberation War] (in Bengali). Vol. IX. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 978-984-34-9268-5.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "জনাব হামিদুদ্দিন ও মিঃ বারোরীর শপথ গ্রহণ" [Oaths taken by Mr. Hamiduddin and Mr. Barori]. The Azad (in Bengali). 13 June 1950. p. 1.
  3. 1 2 3 Roy, Anandanath (2000). Bagchi, Tapan (ed.). ফরিদপুরের ইতিহাস (১ম ও ২য় খণ্ড) [History of Faridpur (Volumes 1 and 2)] (in Bengali). Kolkata: Radical Impression. pp. 319–325.
  4. ↑ Chattopadhyaya, Gautam (1984). Bengal Electoral Politics and Freedom Struggle, 1862-1947. Indian Council of Historical Research. p. 234.
  5. ↑ Biswas, Shri Bipad Bhanjan (2015) [2003]. ভারত বিভাজন যোগেন্দ্রনাথ ও ডঃ আম্বেদকর [The Partition of India, Jogendranath, and Dr. Ambedkar] (in Bengali). Vivekanand Sahitya Kendra. p. 83.
  6. 1 2 Mamun, Muntassir; Rahman, Md. Mahbubar (2015) [2013]. "ভাষা আন্দোলন ও বাঙালির আত্মপরিচয় প্রতিষ্ঠা" [The Language Movement and the Establishment of Bengali Self-Identity]. স্বাধীন বাংলাদেশের অভ্যুদয়ের ইতিহাস [History of the Emergence of Independent Bangladesh] (in Bengali). Suborna. pp. 125–126. ISBN 9789849069447.
  7. ↑ Ullah, Mahfuz (2011). অভ্যুত্থানের উনসত্তর [The Uprising of '69] (in Bengali). Obosor. p. 69. ISBN 9789848793435.
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