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Peary Chand Mitra | |
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![]() Portrait of Peary Chand Mitra, c. 1906 | |
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Died | 23 November 1883 | (aged 69)
Nationality | British Indian |
Other names | Tek Chand Thakur |
Occupation(s) | Writer, journalist, cultural activist, entrepreneur |
Notable work | Alaler Gharer Dulal (1857) |
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Derozians |
Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee • Hara Chandra Ghosh • Krishna Mohan Banerjee • Peary Chand Mitra • Radhanath Sikdar • Ramgopal Ghosh • Ramtanu Lahiri • Rasik Krishna Mallick • Sib Chandra Deb |
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.
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