'''Rupram Chakrabarty''' ({{langx|bn|রূপরাম চক্রবর্তী}}) (c. 17th century) was a Bengali poet of the Middle Ages and one of the most significant contributor to Dharmamangalkavya tradition of mediaeval Bengali literature.<ref name = parthachatterjee>{{cite book |last1= Chatterjee |first1= Dr Partha |title= Bangla Sahitya Parichay |trans-title= History of Bengali Literature |year= 2008|publisher= Tulsi Prakashani |location= Kolkata |language=bn |isbn=978-81-89118-04-4 |pages= 140–41}}</ref> His work, ''Anadi Mangal'' ({{langx|bn|অনাদিমঙ্গল}}), was probably composed in 1650.<ref name = bsiII>{{cite book |last1= Bandyopadhyay |first1= Asit Kumar |title= Bangla Shityer Itibritta |trans-title= History of Bengali Literature |volume=III-A| edition= 3rd|year= 1993 |orig-year= 1966 |publisher= Modern Book Agency Private Ltd |location= Kolkata |language=bn |page= 329}}</ref>

Chakrabarty was born at Kaiti-Srirampur village in modern-day Purba Bardhaman district of Indian state of West Bengal.<ref name = parthachatterjee/> His father Sriram Chakrabarty was an eminent Sanskrit scholar.<ref name = parthachatterjee/> In his youth Chakrabarty left home and travelled many places until he settles at Eralbahadurpur village in modern-day Nadia district, West Bengal.<ref name = parthachatterjee/> Legend has it that in Nadia, he met Dharmathakur who commanded him to compose a narrative poem in his honour.<ref name = parthachatterjee/> The poem, only one-third part of which is now survived, was penned at Eralbahadurpur.<ref name = parthachatterjee/> The manuscripts of Chakrabarty’s poem are preserved in the University of Calcutta and Vangiya Sahitya Parishad.<ref>Bandyopadhyay, Asit Kumar (1993), p. 336.</ref>

Chakrabarty’s poem, marked by its simplicity and yet scholastic descriptions, contains a vivid picture of 17th century Bengali society and the educational centres of medieval Nadia is found in his poem.<ref name = parthachatterjee/>

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