Dinabandhu Mitra

Dinabandhu Mitra was born in 1829 at Chouberia, in the 24 Parganas, under the name Gandharva Narayan, which he changed. Placed by his father in 1840 in the office of a zamindar, he ran away to Calcutta to his uncle Nilmani Mitra, entered around 1846 the free school of the missionary James Long, then in 1850 the Hindu College, which he left before the final examination. Postmaster at Patna in 1855, he then served in Orissa, Nadia and Dacca, accompanied the Lushai expedition in 1871, was made Rai Bahadur in 1872 and died in Calcutta on 1 November 1873.

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