Category

Writers from West Bengal

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Pranab Mukherjee

President of India from 2012 to 2017

Indian yogi, occultist and guru (1855-1936)

Sister Nivedita

Scots-Irish social worker, author, teacher and disciple of Swami Vivekananda

Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'

Indian Poet, novelist, essayist and story-writer

Upendra Kishore Ray Choudhury

Bengali artist (1863-1915)

Nepalese Writer (1937-1993)

Rajshekhar Basu

Indian writer (1880–1960)

Akshay Kumar Datta

Indian writer, essayist and journalist (1820-1886)

Mandākrāntā Sen

Muhammad Shahidullah

Bangladeshi linguist (1885–1969)

Girish Chandra Sen

Bengali writer (1835–1910)

Hasan Azizul Huq

Bangladeshi novelist (1939–2021)

Radha Kumud Mukherjee

Indian historian (1884–1963)

Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay

Indian writer (1899–1979)

Krishna Das Kaviraj

15th-century Bengali author of Chaitanya Charitamrita

Indra Bahadur Rai

Nepali writer and literary critic (1927-2018)

Santali language writer

Atin Bandyopadhyay

Ramendra Sundar Tribedi

Pramatha Chaudhuri

Bengali essayist, poet and writers (1868–1946)

Amiya Kumar Bagchi

Indian economic historian (1936-2024)

Bangladeshi politician

Priyanath Mukhopadhyay

Chandranath Basu

Bengali writer (1844-1910)

Akshay Kumar Boral

Bengali writer (1860–1919)

Narayan Debnath

Indian comics artist, writer and illustrator

Indian writer and poet

Kazi Abdul Wadud

Bengali writer and academic (1894–1970)

Bangladeshi journalist and novelist

Purnendu Shekhar Pattrea

Indian film director

Indian Santali Author

Indian writer and politician (1891-1966)

Vrindavana Dasa Thakura

Indian writer (1507–1589)

Jatindranath Sengupta

Bengali poet (1887-1954)

Sadhu Ramchand Murmu

Indian poet (1889-1975)

Sheikh Abdur Rahim

Haridas Siddhanta Bagish

Indian writer and translator

Shashibhusan Dasgupta

Scholar in philosophy, languages and literature, particularly Bengali literature, literary critic, author, theologian

Lokenath Bhattacharya

Bengali author and translator (1927–2001)