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Chandra Kumar De | |
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চন্দ্রকুমার দে | |
Born | 1889 |
Died | 1946 (aged 56–57) SK Hospital, Mymensingh, Bengal Province, British Raj |
Occupation | Folklorist |
Chandra Kumar De (Bengali: চন্দ্রকুমার দে, romanized: Chôndrôkumar De; 1889–1946) was a writer and collector of medieval folklore and folk ballads of East Bengal villages, mostly in the Greater Mymensingh region which is now in Bangladesh. Today, he is an important folklore collector of Bengal,[1] and his collected ballads are an important part of Bengali folk literature, they were published by University of Calcutta as Moimonshingho Gitika (1923) and Purbabanga Gitika (1923-1932), later published in English as Eastern Bengal Ballads.[2][3][4]