He gained international recognition few years after his death, when Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore mentioned him in his lectures at Oxford University.
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At the age of seven, his father started living in Rampasha of Lokkishiri, 33 miles away from Sunamganj, for the most of part of the year.
Rampasha is famous for being the ancestral home of Dewan Ali Raja, a zamidar and a songwriter father of Hason Raja, a Bengali poet, mystic philosopher, and folksongs writer and composer who gained international recognition few years after his death, when Nobel Prize laureate, poet Rabindranath Tagore mentioned him in his lectures at Oxford University.
Sunamganj is renowned for bards and folk music; mystic poet Hason Raja (1854CE-1922CE), Saifa Banu (1860-1926), Diwan Moshin Raja, Syed Shahnoor, Radharaman Dutta, Radhamadhav Dutta, Doorbin Shah, Shah Abdul Karim, Muniruzzaman Munir, Nurul Ghani, Dilly Meah, Qari Amiruddin and many more have hailed from this area.
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