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Early Life
Mahesh Chandra Bhattacharya was born on 1st December, 1958 at Bitghar, Comilla in Bengal Presidency during British rule in India (now in Nabinagar Upazila in Brahmanbaria District, Bangladesh). His father Ishwar Chandra Tarka Siddhanta was a scholar and his mother Rammala Devi was a devout woman. Mahesh was influenced by the virtues in his parents. Due to poverty, he could not get institutional education; rather studied at home.

Career
He served as a teacher in Banga School for some time. In 1883, he came to Calcutta for starting a business with  a capital of Rupees Fifty five only in hand. He started the business in Homeopathic  medicine and  was successful in the venture of family firm, named M Bhattacharyya & Co founded on 1889, for his honesty, devotion and labour. The business flourished for the low price of medicines and books published as there were  the good demands from practitioners of homeomedices. He opened its branches at Comilla and Dhaka.

But practicing austerities, Mahesh Chandra carried out the philanthropic activities as well. He devoted for social welfare activities particularly for spending education. In the memory of his father, he established Ishwar Pathshala for the poor in Comilla town in 1914. Besides, he established Rammala Library and Rammala Hostel at Shaktola of Comilla town in 1912 and 1916 respectively in memory of his mother. The library was considered as the Lighthouse of undivided India. By his initiative, Nivedita Girl's School and Nivedita Girls' Hostel were established in Comilla for fostering women education. In his own village, he established Shiksha Sangsad. He also established Iswhar Patshala Tol at Kashidham in Varanasi, India. In order to mitigate the scarcity of drinking water in those days, he dug pond in his own village. While in a pilgrimage, he helped the famine stricken people at Baidyanath. At that time, he used to serve food around 400 to 500 people daily. During the winter, he used to distribute clothes to the poor. For the convenience of the travelers, he set up a passenger-hostel named by Kalighat Hostel at Calcutta in 1935, where the passengers could stay for 4/5 days on gratis. He set up a Dharmasala after the name of his wife Harashundari Devi in Varanasi. Like distinguished persons, namely Mahendralal Sarkar, Brajendranath Bandyopadhyay, Akshaya Kumar Datta and Batakrishna Pal of Bengal, he used to spend a great portion of income from the business towards selfless help and empathy towards the poor in the form of treatment, free distribution of drugs and other materials and  ways.

He published some books for Homeopathic treatments in Bengali, English and other Indian languages and wrote a biography "Atmakatha" (My Life). The books in Bengali language are -


 * Parbarik Chikitsa
 * Streerog Chikitsa
 * Homeopathic Olaotha Chikitsa
 * Paribarik Bhesajtatwa
 * Byabasayee

Honour
In his memory with the contribution from his family firm M Bhattacharya & Co Pvt Ltd, 'Mahesh Bhattacharya Homeopathic Medical College & Hospital' established in 1967 in Howrah. West Bengal. The 'Bitghar Danbeer Mahesh Chandra Vidyapith' at his native place in Bangladesh has been upgraded as College.

Death
Mahesh Bhattacharya died on the 10th February, 1944 at Varanasi, British India at the age of 86.

Reference
Category: 1858 births Category: 1944 deaths Category: Indian homeopaths Category: Indian Social worker Category:People from Brahmanbaria district