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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Mitra    
First Name(s)  Dina    
Titles, Honours, etc.  Bandhu Rai Bahadur    
Birth Year  1829    
Death Year  1873    
Entry  Born in 1829 : educated at the Hare School and the Hindu College : while a student began to write in Bengali and contribute to the Sambad Pravakar, edited by Iswar Chanda Gupta : in 1855 went to Patna as Postmaster s within two years became Inspector of Post Offices in Orissa, and subsequently at Nadia and Dacca : in 1858, while at Dacca, published the celebrated Bengali novel, Nil Darpan, or the Mirror of Indigo, which was translated into English in 1860, under the superintendence of the Rev. James Long {q.v.), of the Church Missionary Society : in 1870 became Supernumerary Inspecting Postmaster of Calcutta : in 1871 accompanied the Lushai expedition as Superintendent of Postal Intelligence : in 1872 made a Rai Bahadur : died Nov. 1, 1873 : wrote many Bengali books in prose and verse, and is generally regarded as the greatest humorist of the Bengali language.     
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