Priyanath Bose
Indian businessman
Priyanath Bose (c. 1865 – 21 May 1920) also known as Professor Bose was an Indian circus performer and entrepreneur. In 1887 he founded The Great Bengal Circus with an all-Indian team and toured Bengal, India and South East Asia. He is considered to be one the pioneers of circus in India.
Early life
Priyanath Bose was born in the Bose family of Chhota Jagulia in 24 Parganas district in Bengal in the year 1865, the youngest of three sons to Manomohan Bose. His father was a poet and a playwright. He was one of the organizers of the Hindu Mela in Kolkata and a great orator known for his nationalistic speeches. His immediate elder brother Motilal Bose was a wrestler who founded an akhada in Chingirpota whose members were later involved in revolutionary activities. The Bose family had a residence in Kolkata at the crossing of Bidhan Sarani and Vivekananda Road.
Priyanath attended primary school in Chhota Jagulia and then took admission at the Metropolitan Institution in Kolkata.
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