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Sachindranath Sengupta

Died in 1961

Sachindranath Sengupta was born in July 1891 or 1892 in Senhati, in the district of Khulna; his father was an official of the court of Rangpur, where he had the revolutionary Prafulla Chaki as a schoolmate. He left school in 1905 for the Swadeshi movement and the Anushilan Samiti, passed the entrance examination in 1911, studied medicine in Cuttack and Ayurveda in Mymensingh, then worked as a journalist and edited several weeklies. He wrote historical and social plays, travelled to Russia and China with a troupe and died in Calcutta on 5 March 1961.

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