Panchanan Barma

Panchanan Barma (1866–1935), also known as Thakur Panchanan or Panchanan Sarkar, was a Rajbanshi leader and social reformer from Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India. He dedicated his life for the improvement of backward class people, specifically for his own backward Rajbanshi community. He established a Kshatriya Sabhā (caste association) to instill Brahminical values and practices in people of his own caste. His activities were opposed by the kings of Cooch Behar and in 1926, he was banished from the Cooch Behar state.