# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peary-chand-mitra
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:25:41.804Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peary-chand-mitra"
name: "Peary Chand Mitra"
slug: "peary-chand-mitra"
description: "Peary Chand Mitra was an Indian writer, journalist, cultural activist and entrepreneur. His pseudonym was Tek Chand Thakur. He was a member of Henry Derozio's Young Bengal group, who played a leading role in the Bengal Renaissance with the introduction of simple Bengali prose. His Alaler Gharer Dulal pioneered the novel in the Bengali language, leading to a tradition taken up by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and others. Mitra died on 23 November 1883 in Kolkata."
tagline: "Author and journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peary_Chand_Mitra_(1814-1883).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1814-07-24"
deathDate: "1883-11-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.878618666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "پيارى تشاند ميترا"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump