King · Shakta · East India · Shobhabazar, Kolkata

Maharaja Nabakrishna Deb

Also called: Nabakrishna Dev, Raja Nubkissen

Persian teacher to Warren Hastings and confidant of Clive (1733 to 1797), who began the Shobhabazar Rajbari in 1757, the year of Plassey, and held a Durga Puja there to which Clive and other Englishmen were invited; the model the Kolkata merchant houses copied. Made Maharaja in 1766.

Sources: Nabakrishna Deb, Wikipedia; Shobhabazar, Wikipedia; Shobhabazar Rajbari, Wikipedia; Outlook Traveller: six bonedi bari Durga Pujas of Kolkata; Live History India: Guptipara, birthplace of the people's Durga Puja · see Maharaja Nabakrishna Deb's web

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Maharaja Nabakrishna Deb celebrated at

Durga Puja (Festival) Shakta · The king who could not hold a horse sacrifice (Taherpur, and Shobhabazar 1757)
The 1757 Shobhabazar puja that made the festival Kolkata's.

Maharaja Nabakrishna Deb dwells at

Shobhabazar Rajbari (Place) Shakta · The king who could not hold a horse sacrifice (Taherpur, and Shobhabazar 1757)

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The king who could not hold a horse sacrifice (Taherpur, and Shobhabazar 1757)
Local story · as the Kolkata host of 1757 · 2 tellings

Cited

Nabakrishna Deb, Wikipedia Encyclopedia
Shobhabazar, Wikipedia Encyclopedia
Shobhabazar Rajbari, Wikipedia Encyclopedia
Outlook Traveller: six bonedi bari Durga Pujas of Kolkata Media
Live History India: Guptipara, birthplace of the people's Durga Puja Media