Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury - a famous Bengali writer painter violin player composer technologist and entrepreneur

Our favorite Bengali Writer Upendra kishore Raychowdhury.

Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury - Our favorite Bengali Writer Upendra kishore Raychowdhury.

Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, also known as Upendrokishore Ray (1863-1915) was a famous Bengali writer, painter, violin player and composer, technologist and entrepreneur. He was the father of the famous writer Sukumar Ray and grandfather of the renowned filmmaker Satyajit Ray. Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury was a product and leading member of the Brahmo Movement that spearheaded the cultural rejuvenation of Bengal.

He collaborated with the Tagores whose family, in the arts, achieved world renown. As a writer he is best known for his collection of folklore as a printer he pioneered in India in the art of engraving and was the first to attempt color printing at the time when engraving and color printing were also being pioneered in the West. He was born on 10 May 1863 in a little village called Moshua in kishorgonj District in Bengal, now in Bangladesh. He spent most of his adult life in Kolkata, where he died on 20 December 1915, aged only fifty-two.
Upendrakishore was born Kamadaranjan Ray, to Kalinath Ray, a scholar in Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian. He was expert in English and Persian languages and in the traditional Indian and British Indian legal systems. He became a topmost expert for interpreting old land deeds written in Persian and in helping the landowners to get the best deal from the newly introduced British legal system in India. He became affluent and in due course the family was able to afford two elephants.
At the age of five, Kamadaranjan was adopted by Harikishore, a relative who was a zamindar in Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh). Harikishore renamed his adopted son Upendrakishore, and added the honorific ‘Raychaudhuri’ as a surname.
Upendra passed the Entrance examination in 1880 with scholarship from Mymensingh Zilla School. He studied for a while at Presidency College, then affiliated with the University of Calcutta but passed BA examination in 1884 from the Calcutta Metropolitan Institution (now Vidyasagar College). Upendra took to drawing while in school. He published his first literary work in the magazine Sakha in 1883

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