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Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay was born on 15 September 1876, in a Bengali Brahmin family in Debanandapur, a small village in Hooghly, West Bengal. He was a Bengali novelist and short story writer of the early 20th century.
He was a daring, adventure-loving boy. His education began at an informal village school and later he joined Hooghly Branch High School. He was a good student, enough to even get a promotion as in skip grades. He entered Tejnarayan Jubilee College. He tutored a relative’s children who paid his tuition in return. After two years of study, he could not take his F.A. (First Arts) public examination as he could not pay the twenty rupees examination fee.
Most of his works deal with the lifestyle, tragedy, and struggle of the village people and the contemporary social practices that prevailed in Bengal. His first novel was Badadidi which was published in the Bharati and made him well known he went on to write several stories and novels.
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