Nilratan Sircar
Sir Nilratan Sircar was an eminent Indian doctor, educationist, philanthropist and swadeshi entrepreneur.
Sircar was born onOctober 1861 in Netra, near Diamond Harbour in the district of SouthParganas in Bengal. His father Nandalal Sircar came from a poor family of Jessore and later settled at Joynagar, Khulna. His maternal family belonged to Netra where he was born. However, as his mother often suffered from ill health, Sircar and his siblings spent much of their growing years with their maternal family in Netra and subsequently moved there. His mother died while he was still a child from what was later believed to be cancer. Sircar was reported to have shared with grandchildren that it was this early loss of his mother to an unknown disease that led him to study medicine, as he wanted to know the cause of her death.
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