Scholar Krishnakamal Bhattacharya passed away on this day. He was one of Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar’s favourite students at Sanskrit College, though the two would develop a difference of opinion later. Krishnakamal was inspired by the works of Auguste Comte. He remained an atheist for life.

He took admission in Presidency College in 1857. A year later he took off to travel in north India, still feeling the tremors of the 1857 Uprising. At this time he wrote Durakankher Britha Bhraman (Futile Wanderings of One Who Wants to Go Far, 1857), considered by some as the first romance in Bengali. He joined Presidency as a teacher of Bengali in 1862. Vichitravirya was another book written by him. Later he gave up teaching to practise law. Scholar Ramkamal Bhattacharya was his elder brother.

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