Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury

Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury
Born
Kamadaranjan Ray

(1863-05-12)12 May 1863[1]
Died20 December 1915(1915-12-20) (aged 52)
Calcutta, Bengal, British India
(now West Bengal, India)
NationalityBritish Indian
Known forWriter, painter
Spouse(s)Bidhumukhi Devi (daughter of Dwarkanath Ganguly and stepdaughter of Kadambini Ganguly)
ChildrenShukhalata Rao
Sukumar Ray
Punyalata Chakrabarty
Subinoy Ray
Shantilata Ray
Subimol Ray
RelativesSatyajit Ray (grandson)

Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury (12 May 1863[1] – 20 December 1915) was a Bengali writer, painter and entrepreneur. One of his written books is Chotoder Shera Bigyan Rochona Shongkolon. He was the son-in-law of reformer Dwarkanath Ganguly. He was also an entrepreneur. He was the first person who introduced color printing in Bengal. He started the first colour children's magazine Sandesh in 1913.[2]

  1. ^ a b Raychowdhury, Hitendrakishore (1984). Upendrakishore O Moshua Ray Poribaarer Golposholpo. Firma KLM Private Limited. p. 1.
  2. ^ Sengupta, Subodh Chandra; Basu, Anjali, eds. (1998) [First published 1976]. Saṃsada Bāṅālī caritābhidhāna (Biographical dictionary) (in Bengali) (4th ed.). p. 67. ISBN 81-85626-65-0.

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