Kalikrishna Mitra

He passed from Hare School and entered into the Presidency College but due to poor economic condition he had to leave his studies and start living in his maternal house at Barasat, presently North 24 Parganas district.

[2][1] Mitra involved himself with progressive education movement and several activities relating to some social reforms mainly in Bengal.

In 1847 he established a private girls school in Barasat with the help of his brother Nabinkrishna and educationist Peary Charan Sarkar.

Although such activities was strongly opposed by Hindu Zaminders and the then conservative society but Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar and John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune supported Mitra's enormous effort for women education in Bengal.

[6] Mitra organised an agricultural firm of 150 Bighas for scientific farming, plantation and research in Barasat.