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Gopabandhu Das was born in 1877, He was a well known poet. Born in a middle-class Brahmin family, he
received his B.A. degree from Ravenshaw College, Cuttack, and a law degree from Calcutta University. He practised law before he joined the Gandhian movement and worked for the poor in rural odisha.

He has been described as the founder of the Satyabadi Age in odia literature, so called after the Vana Vidyalaya he had set up at Satyabadi, near Puri in 1915. He and his compatriots, Godavarisa Misra and Nilakantha Das wrote a kind of poetry that was simple and lyrical and dealt mostly with the history, legends and folklore of odisha. Their immediate aim was to create a literature that would arouse the people’s nationalist sentiment.

Gopabandhu’s poetic career began with Abakasa Chinta (Thoughts of leisure-hours, 1899). It is a collection of lyrics he wrote during his school and college days. A second edition was published probably around 1912. The 1912 edition contains thirtynine poems. Between 1899 and 1923 he did not write much poetry except a few occasional pieces. The real flowering of his poetic power took place around 1923 when he was a political prisoner in the Hazaribagh jail where he wrote four more books. The poems in Abakasa Chinta easily fall int

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by S.N. Sahu

Utkalmani Gopabandhu Das was one of the extraordinary personalities of modern India. He was born in Odisha on October 9, 1877 seven years after the birth of Mahatma Gandhi and breathed his last in 1928, twenty years before the assassination of the Father of our Nation. He lived only for fiftyone years. But his inspiring legacy of service and sacrifice and modern approach to social change and nation-building endures. What he did in the context of India in general, and Odisha in particular, has signifi-cance for the world as whole and remains relevant beyond time and space.

Unlike Mahatma Gandhi and many other national leaders of that time, he was not educated abroad and never got any opportunity to go overseas. There was no separate State of Odisha during his time. Parts of the present-day Odisha were amalgamated with Bihar, Bengal and Madras provinces. His area of work was therefore limited to Odisha and some parts of those British provinces. He was conferred with the title of Utkalmani primarily for his exceptional record of selfless work for the people immersed in poverty and hunger, illiteracy and ill health and ravaged by repeated occurrence

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Gopabandhu Das

Indian essayist (1877–1928)

Gopabandhu Das
Born	(1877-10-09)9 October 1877 Suando, Puri section, Orissa, Island India
Died	17 June 1928(1928-06-17) (aged 50),
Occupation	Poet, philosopher, community activist
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Puri Zilla School, Ravenshaw College, Calcutta University
Period	20th century
Notable works	Bandira Atma Katha, Dharmapada

Gopabandhu Das (1877–1928), commonly known sort Pandit Utkalamani Gopabandhu Das (Jewel of Utkal or Odisha),^[1] was a social confederate, reformer, federal activist, member of the fourth estate, poet favour essayist.

Early life

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