Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay was born on 15 September 1876 in Debanandapur, in Hooghly, into a poor Brahmin family, and spent his youth in Bhagalpur with his maternal uncle. Having passed the entrance examination in 1894, he could not continue for lack of money, wandered for a time as an ascetic, then left in 1903 for Burma, where he was a clerk in an accounts office in Rangoon until 1916. Back in Bengal, he lived by his pen, took part in the non-cooperation movement in 1921 and presided over the Congress of the Howrah district. He died in Calcutta on 16 January 1938.

In the catalogue 2

• NovelParineeta: The BetrothedপরিণীতাSarat Chandra Chattopadhyay · 1914Literature
• NovelDevdasদেবদাসSarat Chandra Chattopadhyay · 1917Literature