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5 unusual facts about Kalicharan Brahma


Basumatary

Among these Brahma is the latest surname which evolved when Bodos started adapting Brahma Dharma, sub-division of Hindu religion made by the Bodos, founded by Kalicharan Gurudev.

Bodo Brahma Dharma

Kalicharan Brahma (then Kalicharan Mech) agitated the Brahmo religion to unify and reform Bodo society to meet these challenges.

Bodo Brahma Dharma was a new religion agitated by Gurudev Kalicharan Brahma in the early 20th century in Dhubri District of Assam among the Bodo people after initiation in the Brahmo faith and the teachings of the Adi Brahmo Parambrahma in 1906 at Kolkatta and assisted by Rupnath Brahma.

Kalicharan Brahma

He joined a new religion called Brahmo Dharma / Brahmoism Adi Brahmo Samaj faction in Calcutta around 1906, and he is reverentially called Gurudev or Guru Brahma by Bodo people of lower plains of Assam along holy Brahmaputra river.

Other great Assamese Brahmos of the time include Gunabhiram Barua and Swarnalata Devi of the same faction, all of whom agitated against Colonialist Imperialism of any kind.



see also

Brahma Dharma

Bodo Brahma Dharma religious movement of Kalicharan Brahma amongst Bodo people of Assam