Fanindra Nath Gooptu
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Fanindranath Gooptu ফণীন্দ্রনাথ গুপ্ত | |
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| Occupations | Industrialist, Swadeshi entrepreneur |
| Known for | First Indian-owned manufacturer in Kolkata |
| Parent | Gopal Chandra Gooptu |
Fanindranath Gooptu (Bengali ফণীন্দ্রনাথ গুপ্ত) mostly known as F.N. Gooptu was an Indian industrialist. He led manufacturing of writing instruments such as fountain pens with an indigenous process, pencils, nips of fountain pens, ink etc. His own company F. N. Gooptu & Co. was situated at the Beliaghata region of Kolkata, India.[1]
Fanindranath was born in the Gooptu family of Kolkata. His father Gopal chandra Gooptu was an industrialist.[1] His grandfather Dwarkanath Gooptu was the first year student of Calcutta Medical College, assistant of Madhusudan Gupta who performed India's first human dissection at Calcutta Medical College in 1836, almost 3,000 years after Susruta. Fanindranath completed his B.A. from Presidency College.[2][3]
Industrial career
After completing his academic career Fanindranath joined in D.Gooptu's company.[4] Then in 1905-06, during the Swadeshi movement, the indigenous pen and pencil factories were established by him. In India, he is known as a pioneer for making Fountain Pen.[5] In 1908, he formed a platform named Bengal Initiative for the development of Bengal with the artists of Bengal, government bureaucracy, educationists and thinkers. Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy and Dadabhai Naoroji are the rewarded member of this platform.[6]