Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay
1847–1919
Biography
Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay (1847–1919) was a Bengali writer and a public servant of the British Indian government. He began his working life as a schoolteacher and later became curator of the Indian Museum in Calcutta. Official records of the period often give his name as T. N. Mukharji, and he wrote in both English and Bengali.
His official work took him abroad. He helped organise the Indian exhibits at the Calcutta and Amsterdam exhibitions of 1883, and he was involved in the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886 and the Glasgow International Exhibition of 1888. The travels that came with this work were written up as A Visit to Europe, published in 1889. He also published essays in English, but his Bengali books are the ones for which he is best remembered, among them Kankabati, Bhoot o Manush, Phokla Digambar and Damru-charit. He is counted among the great comic and satirical writers of Bengali.
Damru-charit, the book on this site credited to him, is a set of tall tales told by a boastful narrator who claims to have met tigers, ghosts and great thieves. It was published in 1923, four years after the author's death, and it shows the comic side of his writing at its most playful.
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Books
ডমরু-চরিত
by ত্রৈলোক্যনাথ মুখোপাধ্যায়
Damaru Dhar, a boastful narrator and a magnificent liar, tells of his travels and adventures and of the many things he has seen, among tigers, ghosts, English officials and great thieves. Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay's tall tales are a classic of Bengali humour, collected after…
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