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Prafulla Kumar Shil

Bangladeshi politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ85017324 ↗
Source-derived summary

Prafulla Kumar Shil was a Bangladeshi academic and politician from Khulna belonging to Bangladesh Awami League. He was a member of the Jatiya Sangsad.

Biography

Shil was the principal of Digraj College in Mongla of Bagerhat. He was elected as a member of the Jatiya Sangsad from Khulna-5 in 1979.

Shil died on 23 November 2014 at Abu Naser Hospital in Khulna.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Prafulla Kumar Shil” is bangladeshi politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Prafulla, Kumar and Shil, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1935. For this dossier, Prafulla, Kumar and Shil is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “bangladeshi politician” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q85017324. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979 and 2014.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Prafulla Kumar Shil” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.