Raja Shyama Sankar (1837 to 1893) was the Zamindar of Teota Estate of East Bengal.
[3] Sankar invested significant resources in improving agriculture and planting new crops.
[3] In Dinajpur District, he tried to grow Ramie plant for its fiber but that ended in failure.
[3] According to the District Magistrate and the Dacca gazetteer his experiments was usually met with indifference by the farmers.
[3] In the 1877 Delhi Durbar he was awarded the title of raja or Roy Bahadur by the Viceroy of India, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton.