Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay

Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay was born on 23 July 1898 in Labhpur, in Birbhum, into a family of landowners. He left St. Xavier's College for the non-cooperation movement in 1920 and was imprisoned for a year in 1930. He observed the lower castes and tribes of his region at close quarters, sat in the West Bengal assembly and then in the upper house of parliament from 1960 to 1966, wrote sixty-five novels and received the Jnanpith Prize. He died in Calcutta on 14 September 1971.

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• NovelThe Tale of Hansuli Turnহাঁসুলী বাঁকের উপকথাTarasankar Bandyopadhyay · 1947Literature