Sri Girish Chandra Basu Thakur who was the only son of Sri Sambhunath Basu Thakur was born in September 1826 (Ashwin, 1233 Bongabdo). His uncle who was known as Sri Ram Lochan Ghosh brought him to Calcutta when he was only eight years old. He was brought here mainly for English education and was admitted to Hindu College which was an English Medium School in 1838. At that time Ramtanu Lahiri who was a teacher of Class ten in Hindu College and he influenced Sri Girish Chandra Basu Thakur to learn English. As a brilliant student he received ‘Ganga Narayan Das Senior Britti’ (Scholarship) which was 12 rupees in 1847 and then in 1848 he received scholarship as he came first in the senior examination. He got a scholarship of Rupees 40 (Presidency College Register 1927, page 499). However he only received the scholarship for one year because of untimely death of his father. When his father died his uncle asked him to leave the college and return home to the village.

Mahatma David Hare used to adore Sri Girish Chandra Basu Thakur due to his love for education. When he was only thirteen years old he suffered a severe illness which almost took him to the hand of death. In Kolkata he used to stay with his aunt. His aunty became a widow when she was very young. When Mahatma David Hare came to know about his illness he visited Sri Girish Chandra to see his condition but his aunty who was a devoted Hindu woman didn’t let him inside their house as he was a Christian. David Hare understood the emotion behind her action as he was the gentleman and waited outside their house. Sri Girish Chandra also looked up at Mahatma David Hare as a father figure. He used to respect him very much. When he visited Calcutta for the last time in 1892 he was walking through College Street with one of his friend, he saw a statue of Mahatma David Hare. He stood there for a long time and started weeping. After sometime he came around, showed respect and moved on from there.

After finishing college he first started working as a head writer in Tamluk Salt Agency. However, nobody knew how long he worked there. In 1853 he joined Nabadwip Police Station as ‘Daroga’. He worked as ‘Daroga’ of Nabadwip, Santipur and Krishnapur area till 1860. At that time there was only one Superintendent of Police for the whole region that is Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. The police system was mainly dependent on ‘Daroga’ who worked under the Magistrates.

At that time, Krishnanagar of Nadia district became very famous because of all the wrong reasons. This area was known for the cultivation of Blue (which was at that time a cash crop and was used to make blue dye). In 1860 the residents of that area revolted against the plantation owners who were mainly rich English people for the cultivation of Blue.

Sri Girish Chandra Basu Thakur as a police officer of that area experienced this Blue Revolution firsthand. He was always true and was without fear. This is the reason why he took the side of the farmers of that area and started writing pieces in a Magazine called ‘Hindu patriot’ using his own name and sometimes took the alias ‘Krishnanagar r Chasa’ (Farmer of Krishnanagar) while writing about the revolution in other magazines and newspapers. He started writing stories and letters in different magazines. On 13 June, 1860 one of the Englishman who was a planter of Blue and supporter of Blue cultivation wrote a scathing letter against him in the newspaper ‘The Englishman’. He was also one of the witnesses in ‘Nilkar Commission’ and his first hand witness stories was later printed in the preface of a book called ‘Sekaal r Darogar Kahini’ 2nd edition in the year 1893.

Since he was working as a police officer he was actually an employee of the British Government. When he took side against the British rulers he knew immediately that it will lead to many unfortunate events in his life in the future. Shri Girish Chandra was aware that he will be facing a tough time if he continues to work for the British rulers. Since at that time there was no Indian Penal Code and no Criminal Procedure Code he will be abused by the rulers differently. This is the reason why soon after appearing as a witness in 1860 against the English in the Commission he left the police force citing the reason that he is sick. He took an unsure plunge into the future.

As he was a good writer, shortly after his resignation from the police force she got a post of Assistant Registrar in the Secretariat. After working there for a few years he again resigned and took up a job as a private secretary of the Nawab of Murshidabad, along with that he worked as a local guardian and manager of Sri Kali Krishna Thakur. He again left his jobs because of his ill health and in 1873 at the age of Forty Seven and returned to Malkhanagarh and started staying there for good.

In the year 1846 with the help of Sri Kali Prasad Ghosh who used to stay in Shimla (Kolkata), he started a weekly magazine by the name of ‘Hindu Intelligencer’. The magazine mainly dealt in political discussions. The magazine stopped for some reasons after sometime.

In 1853, Sri Harish Chandra Mukhopadhyay started a magazine called ‘Hindu Patriot’. This magazine played a pivotal role in raising the nationalist ideal within the common people of the country. He wrote articles not only in English, he also wrote many pieces in Bengali. Most of his articles/pieces were published in ‘Sambad Pravakar’ of Sri Ishwar Chandra Gupta and ‘Sambad Rasaraj’ of Gouri Sankar Tarkabagish.

Sri Girish Chandra Basu Thakur was always against the practices of the Christian Missionaries. He wrote many articles against the Christian Missionaries. At that time Reverend Krishna Mohan Bandhyopadhyay wrote a parody in which the main character was influenced by Sri Radha Kanta Deb who was a devoted Hindu. Sri Radha Kanta Dev was also the founder of ‘Sobdo Kolpodrumm’. As an answer to that Sri Girish Chandra wrote another novel where he gave a fitting answer to the above mentioned parody and gifted the book to Sri Bipro Das Bandhyopadhyay who was the younger brother of Sri Krishna Mohan Bandhyopadhyay. At the time a famous Christian Missionary by the name of Alexander Duff wrote an article in ‘Bengal Horakara’ alleging that the Hindus want to kill him because he transformed a young Bengali from Hindu to Christian. The young guy he was talking about later came to be known as Michael Madhusudan Dutta. He was one of the greatest Son of Bengal.

Girish Chandra however protested against this allegation and he wrote a big article in a magazine by taking the alias ‘Mocambu’. He used to write regular articles in places like ‘Banga Darshan’, ‘Nobojibon’, ‘Janmabhumi’ etc. and in Janmabhumi he wrote a serial called Siraj-ud-Daulah.

At the age of sixty he wrote an article called ‘Sekaal r Daroga r Kahini’. It was published in Nobojibon in episode format (Shrabon 1293 to Shrabon 1294). Later in the year 1888 (1295 by Bengali Calendar) the same article was published from Dhaka as a book.

Sri Priyanath Mukhopadhyay was a contemporary of Sri Girish Chandra Basu Thakur. His creation ‘Daroga r Doftor’ was published serially and continually from the year 1893 (1300 by Bengali Calendar).

After he returned to his village he dedicated his life for the greater good of the local people. In order to help the students of Malkhanagarh, he built two roads; one of them was from the school to Furshail and the other to Gobordi village via Chiknissar village. He also kept many students in his house and helped them learn English. In 1855 he took pivotal role in setting up of a post office in his village.

In the year 1888 he became the editor of a weekly magazine called ‘Shakti’ in Dhaka. The magazine stopped publishing only after a few days. In the year 1898 at the age of 72 years he passed away from Dhaka to a better realm.