DOBHASI WRITER

Dobhasi Writer : Imtiaz Khondokar

Shah Garibullah    Sons of Sayed saha Ajmatullah (He is well known as FULWARI SAHA Orfi  SAHA DUNDI  KURASHI (RA)  for the local people. )

                                 Majar Sarif Gate of Saha Garibullah(RA)

Hajrat Sayed Saha Ajmatullaha(RA)
 was a descendent, on his father’s side, of Hazrat Syedna Ghaus- e- Azam Shaikh ‘Abdul Qadir Jilani in the 9th generation, and of the Holy Prophet of Islam through Syedna Hasan ibn ‘Ali in the 20th generation.

Saha Garibullah :(c 1670-1770) writer of dobhasi (literature in mixed languages)puthi, was born at Hafizpur, Munshir hat  in Howrah,   West Bengal  , He wrote Five books which  have so far been discovered:

Yusuf Zolaikha, Sonabhan,  JANGANAMA    (Accounts of war), Satyapirer Katha(The stories of Satyapir) and AMIR HAMZA     (Part I).

Poets who composed between 1600 and 1757 include nawajis khan , Qamar Ali, Mangal (Chand), Abdul Nabi, Muhammad Fasih, Fakir Garibullah, Muhammad Yakub, Sheikh Mansur, Muhammad Uzir Ali, Sheikh Sadi and Heyat Mamud. Syed Sultan's Nabibamsa , Muhammad Khan's Maktul Husein and sheikh chand 's Rasulbijay are known as Islamic Puranas.

Puthi, Pandulipi, Dobhasi Literature this all are related to Deoanji RA‘s book. Puthi Literature a special genre of literature written in a mixed vocabulary drawn from Bangla, Arabic, Urdu, Persian and Hindi. It was current during the 18th and the 19th centuries and its composers as well as readers were Muslims. The word puthi (or punthi) is derived from pustika or book. However, only a particular type of writing dating from the 18th-19th centuries is known as PUTHI.

Nowadays all manuscripts are called Pandulipi in Bangla.

Kalipada Ghoshal was Honored with Shah Garibullah Memorial Life Time Achievement Award on 18 February 1990.The award ceremony was held in Brahman para Chintamoni Institution for Girls in Munsirhat Howrah.The Award was given to him in the presence of the famous sculptor Chintamani Kar.