Hason Raja

Hason Raja, was a Bengali poet, mystic philosopher and songwriter from Sylhet, Bangladesh. He gained international recognition few years after his death, when Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, mentioned him in his lectures at Oxford University. Tagore said, We realise it through admiration and love, through hope that soars beyond the actual, beyond our own span of life into an endless time wherein we live of all men. and It is a village poet of East Bengal who preaches in a song the philosophical doctrine that the universe has its reality in its relation to the Person.

Raja was born onDecember 1854 in Lakkansree, Sunamganj, Sunamganj District, and his father moved to Sunamganj after his last marriage. His father was Dewan Ali Raja, a direct descendant of Birendraram Singhdev . Hason Rajas mother was Hurmuth Jahan Bibi, the last and fifth wife of Ali Raja. He spent most of his childhood in Sunamganj with his mother. At the age of seven, his father started living in Lakkansree of Sunamganj,miles away from Rampasha, for the most part of the year. Ali supervised and managed his paternal properties.

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