Having no son no daughter, Prannath adopted a young relative named Ramanath, who took over the responsibility of the estate after him and paid a succession fee of 4.21.450 take to the Subadar of Bengal. Ramnath was very powerful and honest. F. W. Strong (Dinajpur Gazetteer 1912.P.24) stated that he seems further to have been a persona grate with the Subahdar of Bengal who granted him three sanads, conferring on him additional estates in thanas Patiram,patnital and Gangarampur. Ramnath conquered and dispossessed the Zamindar of Gobindanagar, near the present village of Thakurgoan, employing a Brahmin to steal his protecting deity or family idol Gobinda, and this causing his own downfall, the conqueror subsequently constructed a canal connecting Gobindanagar on the Tangan with prannagar near the Punarbhaba for the purpose of taking the idol backwards and forwards between the two places. This canal is still in existence and is called the Ramdara.
There is legend that Saiyid Mohammad Khan or Saiyed Ahmed, the Nazim of Rangpur, stormed and plundered the Rajbari of Dinajpur in the reign of Ramanath. But whether Ramanath drove him out or came to terms with him is not known. Quoting from Stewart's History of Bengal (1813) F. W.Strong (1912:24) described the incident that-
"About this period Sayid Ahmed,the second son of Haji Ahmed, who upon the succession of Shujaa Adeen Khan had been appointed Foujadar of Rangpur, and who is accused of having ruled that district with great oppression, having procured from Moorshudabad (Musshidabad) a considerable army, invaded Dinagepore and Couch Beygar (Bihar), and after compelling the Rajas to take refuge in the woods and mountains, got possession of those countries, together with the immense treasures which the Rajas and their ancestors had amassed.
There is legend that Saiyid Mohammad Khan or Saiyed Ahmed, the Nazim of Rangpur, stormed and plundered the Rajbari of Dinajpur in the reign of Ramanath. But whether Ramanath drove him out or came to terms with him is not known. Quoting from Stewart's History of Bengal (1813) F. W.Strong (1912:24) described the incident that-
"About this period Sayid Ahmed,the second son of Haji Ahmed, who upon the succession of Shujaa Adeen Khan had been appointed Foujadar of Rangpur, and who is accused of having ruled that district with great oppression, having procured from Moorshudabad (Musshidabad) a considerable army, invaded Dinagepore and Couch Beygar (Bihar), and after compelling the Rajas to take refuge in the woods and mountains, got possession of those countries, together with the immense treasures which the Rajas and their ancestors had amassed.
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