Peary Chand Mitra

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Peary Chand Mitra
Portrait of Peary Chand Mitra, c. 1906
Born	(1814-07-22)22 July 1814 Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
Died	23 November 1883(1883-11-23) (aged 69) Calcutta, British India (now Kolkata, India)
Nationality	British Indian
Other names	Tek Chand Thakur
Occupation(s)	Writer, journalist, cultural activist, entrepreneur
Notable work	Alaler Gharer Dulal (1857)

Young Bengal

Founder
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
Derozians
Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee • Hara Chandra Ghosh • Krishna Mohan Banerjee • Peary Chand Mitra • Radhanath Sikdar • Ramgopal Ghosh • Ramtanu Lahiri • Rasik Krishna Mallick • Sib Chandra Deb
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Peary Chand Mitra (22 July 1814 – 23 November 1883) was an Indian writer, journalist, cultural activist and entrepreneur.^[1] His pseudonym was Tek Chand Thakur. He was a member of Henry Derozio's Young Bengal group, who played a leading role in the Bengal renaissance with the introduction of simple Bengali prose. His Alaler Gharer Dulal pioneered the novel in the Bengali language, leading to a tradition taken up by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and others. Mitra died on 23 November 1883 in Kolkata.