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Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay

Died in 1919

Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay was born on 22 July 1847 in Rahuta, near Shyamnagar, in the 24 Parganas. An orphan at fifteen, after a malaria epidemic had carried off his parents, he had studied in village schools and then at Duff's school in Chinsurah. Having entered the administration, he organised the Indian section of the exhibitions in Amsterdam in 1883, in London in 1886 and in Glasgow in 1888, was curator at the Indian Museum in Calcutta and published in English an account of a journey in Europe. He died on 3 November 1919.

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