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S. B. Banerjea
These lively stories open a window onto everyday life in Bengal, mixing village humor, rivalry, hardship, and local custom. Known as S. B. Banerjea, the author wrote with an eye for social detail that still makes the collection vivid and approachable.
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Tales of Bengal
by S. B. Banerjea
About the author
Better known by the pen name S. B. Banerjea, Satya Bhushan Bandyopadhyay was an Indian author associated with Calcutta University Magazine. He is best remembered for Tales of Bengal, a collection first published in 1910 and later preserved by projects such as Wikisource, Project Gutenberg, and Open Library.
Tales of Bengal brings together stories set in Bengal and focuses on village life, social tensions, everyday struggles, and moments of wit. The book was edited by Francis Henry Skrine, and its lasting availability in public-domain libraries has helped keep Banerjea's work in circulation for modern readers.
Reliable biographical details about him are limited in the sources I could confirm, so a fuller life story is hard to reconstruct with confidence. Even so, his writing stands out for the way it captures a sense of place and introduces readers to the rhythms and character of Bengali life in the early twentieth century.