Story of Bhawal Sanyasi -Imposter Prince !!

Ramendra Narayan Roy was a kumar (“prince/Zamindar”) of the large Bhawal Estate in modern-Bangladesh. One of three brothers who inherited the estate from their father, he spent his time hunting, in festivities and with women. In 1909 he went to Darjeeling to seek treatment for syphilis but died there at the age of 25.

Later there was much discussion of what had exactly happened the day of the funeral: some testified that a hailstorm had interrupted the cremation just before the pyre was lit and the body might have disappeared when the mourners sought shelter mostly taken by Naga Sadhus to resurrect him back later. There were rumours that Ramendra’s body had not been successfully cremated , that it had disappeared or had been swapped.Also some suspected that his young wife and her brother might have poisoned him for the claim of assets. His sister gradually became convinced that her brother was still alive.

In 1920 a man appeared in Dhaka covered in ashes. He sat on the street for four months, attracting attention because he was in unusually good physical condition. There were rumors that the kumar had returned, even when the man said he had renounced his family. It was arranged for him to visit the kumars’ family and they became convinced that he was Ramendra. When they questioned him, he remembered the name of his wet nurse, a fact that was not public. He said he had wandered around India without recollection of his past until his memory began to return and his guru, a man he met in the jungle, told him to return home.

There was considerable rural acceptance that the man was the Second Kumar. Many of his former tenants began paying him rent, which he used to buy lawyers to help him win back his estate from the colonial British. A bitter legal battle ensued in which it was suggested that the claimant must be a fraud and, therefore, not entitled to the estate, because the kumar’s syphilis had advanced to the state of open sores but there were no syphilitic scars on the claimant’s body; the claimant spoke mainly Urdu, rather than the kumar’s Bengali; and he was illiterate. A full comparison of the kumar and claimant’s physical resemblance can be seen here.

Bizarrely, a court eventually ruled in a favour of the claimant, however, that same evening, when he went to offer prayers, he suffered a stroke and died. Funeral rites were performed on August 13, 1946.

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