Sanjib Chandra Chattopadhyay

Sanjib Chandra Chattopadhyay was born in 1834 in Kanthalpara, into a Brahmin family; his father Jadavchandra was one of the first Indians appointed deputy magistrates, and his younger brother was Bankim. He acquired, largely on his own, a knowledge of English literature, the sciences, history and law, and in turn entered the administration as a deputy magistrate. He edited the weekly Bhramar and then the Bangadarshan, and wrote in English a study on the rights of the peasants of Bengal that the rent commission of 1882 made use of. He died in Calcutta on 18 April 1889.

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