Rev. Lal Behari Dey
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The Reverend Lal Behari Dey is well known as journalist and as author of Folk Tales Of Bengal, Bengal Peasant Life, and other works.
He was born at Sonapalasi near Bardhaman on December 18 1824, and died at Calcutta on October 28. He was a student of the General Assembly's Institution (now Scottish Church College) from 1834 to 1844 under Dr. Alexander Duff, a famous Missionary from Scotland who arrived in Calcutta in May 1830.
He was born an upper caste Hindu. Under the tutelage of Rev. Duff, he formally embraced Christianity. A year before his baptism in 1843, he published a tract The falsity of the Hindu Religion in 1842, which won a prize for the best essay.
From 1855 to 1867, Dey was a Missionary and Minister of the Free Church of Scotland.
He worked as professor of English in Government administered colleges at Berhampore and Hooghly from 1867 to 1889. He was made a Fellow of the University of Calcutta from 1877.
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