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Sarat Chandra Chatterjee (September 15, 1876 - January 16, 1938) was a Bengali novelist of India. He was born in a poor Brahmin family in Devanandpur, Hooghly (present-day West Bengal), India. In 1886, he moved to Bhagalpur, Bihar with his parents and joined Tej Narayan Jubilee College in 1894. Two years later he had to stop his education. In 1900, he fought with his father over a job, ran away from home and began his life as a Bhikshu. In 1903, he went to Burma to make a living and took up paperwork in the government agency of Rangoon. In 1916, he returned to Calcutta and started his career as a professional writer. From 1921-1936, he worked as the Chairman of Congress Party in the District of Howrah and became a radical nationalist. In 1936, he was awarded the Honorary Doctorate Degree by University of Dhaka, and in 1938, he died due to an illness in Calcutta.