On the 30th November, 1858, Jagadis Chunder was born, in a respectable
Hindu family, which hails from village Rarikhal, situated in the
Vikrampur Pargana of the Dacca District, in Bengal. He passed his
boyhood at Faridpur, where his father, the late Babu Bhugwan Chunder
Bose, a member of the _then_ Subordinate Executive Service was the
Sub-Divisional Officer; and it was there that he derived "the power and
strength that nerved him to meet the shocks of life."[1]