Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

         The largest of trees has its origin in the tiniest of seeds. The sweetest of flowers has a modest beginning in the small bud. One small step of Armstrong on the moon has been a big jump for humanity. Every historic milestone has its beginning in the apparently simplest of actions. The history of mankind has repeatedly bourn testimony to this truth. The history of Prabhat Kumar College, Contai, one of the premier institutes of repute in the state, is no exception.

         The high tide of the Bengal Renaissance may have been more perceptible on the national front with the struggle for independence gaining the ultimate momentum, but its spirit had spiralled into every nook and corner of Bengal. The final shaping force came in the form of the Gandhian whirlwind that swept across the country in the 1920s and this southernmost sub-division of Bengal was graced by his auspicious visit in 1926.

         The torch of nationalist fervour that he carried provided the much-needed fire to the patriotic zeal of noble souls of the area and touched the chord of the magnanimous humanist Late Babu Biswambhar Dinda, a benevolent Zamindar of the locality. Yet to completely recover from the shock of the untimely death of his only son, late Prabhat Kumar Dinda, at the tender age of twenty-five, the big heart was still yearning with the burning desire of ‘doing’ something great for the spread of education in the area and he came forward with a princely donation of Rs. 44,527/- to the college fund and left a will bequeathing his whole property to a Board of Trustees with a direction to spend half the annual income from the property for maintenance and development of the college. He continued to be the guiding spirit of the college as the life-member and secretary of the college till his death in May 1937. Initially the college was being run in a portion of the oldest education institute of the sub-division, Contai High School.

         That was the beginning and, as they say, the rest is history. The initiative taken by the humanist Late Babu Biswambhar Dinda, brought together, in its strides, so many humanists of the area that within a very short period the organisers of the college got the support of late Rai Saheb Gangadhar Nanda of Mugberia, a munificent landlord contributing Rs.10,000/- for this noble mission. Besides rendering the pecuniary help, they secured a plot of land, a little over an acre, as gift from Mahanta Badrinarayan Das.

         The college was yet to have its own premises. As late as in 1937, during the period of Founder Principal Nepal Chandra Roy, the college authority purchased a plot of land measuring about 5.7 acre with a moderate building from the American Baptist, Bengal, Orissa Mission, at a very modest price of Rs.3000 and the college was shifted there (which also happens to be its present location) on 26th August, 1937. One room was erected on the top of the college building and another with a veranda was also built up by the Trust Board during session 1940-41 and named “Biswambhar Hall” in memory of the principal donor, Biswambhar Dinda. In course of time the college authority got fifty bighas of land either by purchase or by acquisition.