Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay was born on 12 September 1894 in Muratipur, in the house of his maternal uncle, and grew up in Barrackpur, near Bangaon; his father, Mahananda, a Sanskrit scholar, lived by reciting legends. A graduate of Ripon College, he could not continue for lack of money, taught in a school in Hooghly, became secretary to the landowner Khelatchandra Ghosh and manager of his estate at Bhagalpur, then taught at Gopalnagar until his death, which occurred at Ghatshila on 1 November 1950. He received the Rabindra Prize posthumously.

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• NovelPather Panchali: Song of the Little Roadপথের পাঁচালীBibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay · 1929Literature