Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dinabandhu Mitra (1830 1873) the Bengali dramatist, was born in 1830 at village Chouberia in Gopalnagar P.S., (N) 24 Parganas(location 22'58+88'40) and was the son of Kalachand Mitra. His given name was Gandharva Narayan, but he changed it to Dinabandhu Mitra. Dinabandhu Mitra's education started at a village pathshala. His father arranged a job for him on a zamindar's estate (1840). But the small boy fled to Kolkata, where he started working in the house of his uncle, Nilmani Mitra. Around 1846, he was admitted to the free school run by James Long. Dinabandhu was a bright student and won a number of scholarships. In 1850, he enrolled at Hindu College and was awarded scholarships for academic excellence. However, he did not appear in his last examination, and, instead, started working as a postmaster at Patna (1855).