"Sarat Chandra Chatterjee was born at Devanandapur, Hooghly in 1876 and received his primary school education at Hooghly Branch school but he was bred up in his mother's family at Bhagalpur where he received his school education and college education for two years. The death of his parents wrecked his home life and for some years he was to lead the life of a wail in North Bihar. In 1903 he went to Burma and found employment in Rangoon as a clerk in the govt. office. On the eve of his departure to Burma, he submitted a short story for a prize competition in the name of his uncle Surendranath Ganguli. It won the first prize and was published in 1904..."
"....Saratchandra's earliest writings show striking influence of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. In Devdas (written in 1901, published 1917), Parinita (The Married Girl, 1914), Biraj Bau (Mrs. Biraj, 1914) and Palli Samaj (The Village Commune, 1916), the themes and their treatment are not very much different from the older Chatterjee's but they are presented in a modernistic setting and in an easier and more matter-of-fact language. Tagore's influence, specially of his short stories and his novels Chokher Bali and Gora, is detectable in some of Chatterjee's stories and novels.He is certainly critical of his own ideas but he never flouts the accepted moral basis of the Hindu society of any time..."
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"Chatterjee is at his best when he draws from his experience. To name the more important of such works : Srikanta in four parts (1917,1918,1927,1933), Charitrahin (Character-less, 1917), Biraj Bau (1914), Palli Samaj (1916), the first part of Devdasa (his first novel) and his first published short story Mandir (1904)."
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