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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Prafulla Chandra Ghosh
| image = Prafullachandra Ghosh at Writers' Building in 1947.jpg
| image_size = 220px
| caption = Ghosh at [[Writers' Building]] in 1947
| birth_date = 24 December 1891
| birth_place = [[Dohar Upazila|Maliakanda]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British Raj|British India]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kalerkantho.com/online/entertainment/2016/09/06/402718|title=এবার মিস জাপান হলেন বাংলাদেশি কন্যা প্রিয়াঙ্কা - কালের কণ্ঠ|first=Kaler|last=Kantho|date=September 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://dailynayadiganta.com/detail/news/152131|title=দোহারের মেয়ে প্রিয়াঙ্কা হলেন মিস জাপান - daily nayadiganta|website=The Daily Nayadiganta}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kalerkantho.com/home/printnews/402749/2016-09-07|title=আমাদের - Kaler Kantho|website=www.kalerkantho.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jugantor.com/news-archive/city/2016/09/08/59376/print|title=জাপানের সেরা সুন্দরী প্রিয়াংকা দোহারের ঘোষ পরিবারের মেয়ে - নগর-মহানগর - Jugantor|website=www.jugantor.com}}</ref>
| residence =
| death_date = {{death date and age|1983|12|18|1891|12|24|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]], India
| office1 = Premier of West Bengal
| order1 = 1st
| term_start1 = 15 August 1947
| term_end1 = 22 January 1948
| predecessor1 = ''office established''<br />{{small|([[Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy]] as [[Prime Minister of Bengal]])}}
| successor1 = [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]]
| order2 = 4th
| office2 = Chief Minister of West Bengal
| term_start2 = 21 November 1967
| term_end2 = 20 February 1968
| predecessor2 = [[Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee]]
| successor2 = [[president's rule]]
| office3 = [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly|Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly]]
| constituency3 = [[Mahisadal Assembly constituency|Mahisadal]]
| term_start3 = 1957
| term_end3 = 1962
| predecessor3 = Kumar Deba Prosad Garga
| successor3 = [[Sushil Kumar Dhara]]
| constituency4 = [[Jhargram Assembly constituency|Jhargram]]
| term_start4 = 1967
| term_end4 = 1968
| predecessor4 = Mahendranath Mahato
| successor4 = Panchkari De
| party = [[Independent politician|Independent]] (post-1967)
| otherparty = [[Praja Socialist Party|PSP]] (1950–1967)<br/>[[Indian National Congress|INC]] (pre-1950)
| alma_mater = [[University of Calcutta]]
| website =
| footnotes =
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| relatives = [[Priyanka Yoshikawa]] (great-granddaughter)
}}

'''Prafulla Chandra Ghosh''' (24 December 1891 – 18 December 1983) was the first [[Premier of West Bengal]], [[India]] from 15 August 1947 to 14 August 1948. He also served as the [[Chief Minister of West Bengal]] in the "Progressive Democratic Alliance Front" government from 21 November 1967 to 20 February 1968.<ref>[http://members.tripod.com/~tanmoy/bengal/modern.html Modern Bengal] ''A Short History of Bengal''. Retrieved 18 April 2009.</ref>

==Early life==
Prafulla Chandra Ghosh was born on 24 December 1891 at a remote village, Malikanda, in [[Dhaka]] district, [[British India]] (now [[Bangladesh]]) as a son of Purna Chandra Ghosh and Binodini Devi. Prafulla Ghosh was a brilliant student throughout his academic life and always stood first with scholarship. Prafulla had very rural upbringing and enjoyed cultural festivals such as Jatra, Kirtan, Padavali Gan, and also participated in agricultural activities.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Jībana-smr̥tira bhūmikā|last=Ghosh|first=Praphullachandra|date=1976|publisher=Maḍārṇa Buka Ejeṇsī|location=Kalikātā|pages=3–5|oclc = 20496530}}</ref> He was awarded doctorate in 1920 in Chemistry by [[Calcutta University]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Jībana-smr̥tira bhūmikā|last=Ghosh|first=Praphullachandra|date=1976|publisher=Maḍārṇa Buka Ejeṇsī|location=Kalikātā|pages=18–20|oclc = 20496530}}</ref>

==Political life==
[[File:P. C. Ghosh.jpg|thumb|P. C. Ghosh, Member, Congress Working Committee and External Affairs-Premier, West Bengal broadcasting a talk on Indo-Pakistan Agreement from AIR. Calcutta on 26 July 1950.]]
Ghosh developed an interest in the [[Swadeshi Movement]] early on, but was most impressed and inspired by the ideas of armed revolution propagated by the Dhaka [[Anushilan Samiti]], which he joined in 1909. However, the methods of the Samiti for raising money through theft and then defending the same in Court eventually alienated him, and he finally quit in 1913 to focus on academia. During the same time, while working for the Damodar flood relief, he met [[Surendranath Banerjee]] and other moderate leaders. Yogendra Nath Saha introduced him to the non-violent principles of [[Mahatma Gandhi]]. At the beginning, Gandhian principles did not impress him but he was moved by Gandhi's speech at Dhaka in December 1920 and soon afterwards met with him in Calcutta. In January 1921, he resigned from his position at the [[Calcutta Mint]] and along with other members of the Anami Sangh joined the Freedom Struggle.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.299095|title=Jiban-smritir Bhumika|last=Ghosh|first=Prafulla Chandra|date=1960|pages=21–22}}</ref> He donated his entire month salary , and lived off bare necessities. Till date he is revered for his honesty, selflessness and integrity- the motto of honesty before family- a principle he had passed on to his favourite Grandchild Saumya Ghosh. His only belonging remains with his only direct great granddaughter the photo of him with Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Vallabhai Patel, at 10 Ritchie Road.

==Family==
His great-granddaughter is [[Priyanka Yoshikawa]], who won the 2016 [[Miss World]] Japan contest, and his only grandson was Saumya Ghosh, Supreme Court and Inner Temple Bar-at-Law.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.kalerkantho.com/online/entertainment/2016/09/07/403079|title=বাংলাদেশি বংশোদ্ভুত প্রিয়াংকাকে নিয়ে ভারতে মাতামাতি - কালের কণ্ঠ|first=Kaler|last=Kantho|language=bn|access-date=10 September 2016}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
* ''The theory of profits''
* ''India as known to ancient and mediaeval Europe''
* ''Mahatma Gandhi, as I saw him''
* ''West today''
* ''Jībana-smr̥tira bhūmikā''
* ''Mahātmā Gāndhī''
* ''Prācīna Bhāratīẏa sabhyatāra itihāsa''

==References==
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| title= [[Chief Minister of West Bengal]]
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| after = [[B. C. Roy]]
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| title = [[Chief Minister of West Bengal]]
| years = 2 November 1967 – 20 February 1968
| after = President's Rule
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