18 Facts About Brahmabandhav Upadhyay

Brahmabandhav Upadhyay was closely attached with Keshub Chandra Sen, classmate of Swami Vivekananda and close acquaintance of Rabindranath Tagore.

Brahmabandhab Upadhyay was born as Bhavani Charan Bandyopadhyay in a Kulin Brahmin family.

Brahmabandhav Upadhyay's father, Debi Charan Bandyopadhyay was a police officer of the British regime.

Brahmabandhav Upadhyay was born in village Khannyan in Hooghly district of undivided Bengal.

Brahmabandhav Upadhyay went to Hyderabad town of the province of Sindh as a school teacher of a Brahmo school.

In 1894, Bhavani Charan adopted this name, Brahmabandhab Brahmabandhav Upadhyay, declaring himself as a Christian Sannyasi.

In January 1894, Brahmabandhav Upadhyay started editing "Sophia", an apologetical journal, in Karachi.

Brahmabandhav Upadhyay published a series of articles through which he defended the Catholic Church and its manifestations.

Brahmabandhav Upadhyay is identified as one of the first Christians propagating Sannyasi lifestyle in Ashram.

Brahmabandhav Upadhyay taught for some time in Union Academy, which was established 1887 as the "Bengalee Boys High School" founded in Shimla under the chairmanship of Sir Nripendra Nath Sircar.

Brahmabandhav Upadhyay brought out a monthly journal titled The Twentieth Century in association with Nagendranath Gupta.

Brahmabandhav Upadhyay lectured at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and preached Vedantism.

Brahmabandhav Upadhyay was gradually coming to the conclusion that before India could become Catholic, she must be politically free.

Brahmabandhav Upadhyay was contemporary to and friend of the poet Rabindranath Tagore and Vivekananda.

Brahmabandhab Brahmabandhav Upadhyay acted as editor of Sandhya, till the last day of his life.

Brahmabandhav Upadhyay had undergone a hernia operation but could not overcome his sufferings and succumbed to death on 27 October 1907 under a precarious situation at the age of 46 only.

Brahmabandhav Upadhyay's body was carried from the hospital and was placed on the roadside under a tree while further preparations were made.

Since Brahmabandhav Upadhyay had no offspring, the funeral pyre was lit by his nephew, following Hindu custom.