Durgacharan Rakshit was born in 1854, at Khantura, Gobordanga, in the district of Nadia (West Bengal). Durgacharan was sent to a Sanskrit school in Varanasi. He toured across India and wrote his famous travelogue Bharat Pradakshin, in 1903. He also wrote The Relation of Tambuli Community (1901), Tambuli Merchant (1901), and The Vaishyas of Bengal (1903). Durgacharan passed away in 1938.
