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Line 1: '''Roybahadur Shri Priyonath Mukhopadhyay''' (1855-1947)<ref name=":0">{{Cite book\|last=Roy\|first=Pinaki\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cF3WegP2WzAC&~~pg=PA99&dq~~q=Priyanath+Mukhopadhyay&pg=PA99\|title=The Manichean Investigators: A Postcolonial and Cultural Rereading of the Sherlock Holmes and Byomkesh Bakshi Stories\|publisher=Sarup & Sons\|year=2008\|isbn=978-81-7625-849-4\|pages=98–99\|language=en}}</ref> was a [[Bengalis\|Bengali]] writer and police-detective in Calcutta during British raj. He is considered a pioneer in the field of mystery and detective fiction in Bengali literature.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://m.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/nation/news-detail-646960 \|title='Detective fiction' back in vogue, courtesy Bengal cops \|website=The Tribune\|language=en\|access-date=2020-02-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.anandabazar.com/supplementary/rabibashoriyo/which-is-more-poisonous-scorpion-or-devil-s-trumpet-1.386839 Line 20: Mukhopadhyay / Mukherjee was an inspector of [[Lalbazar]] Police Station in the detective department of the [[Calcutta Police]]. He served in the department for 33 years, from 1878 to 1911. He was a detective of [[Calcutta Police]]. British Government gave him the title of Roybahadur (রায়বাহাদুর) for his excellent records in solving crimes in the city.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/west-bengal/detective-dead-whodunnit/cid/1288901\|title=Detective dead, whodunnit?\|website=www.telegraphindia.com\|language=en\|access-date=2020-02-22}}</ref> In 1889 he began writing accounts of some of his cases in the journal ''Anusandhaan,''<ref>{{Cite book\|last=Roy\|first=Shampa\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jNQkDwAAQBAJ&~~pg=PA29&dq~~q=Priyanath+Mukhopadhyay#q&pg=~~Priyanath%20Mukhopadhyay~~PA29\|title=Gender and Criminality in Bangla Crime Narratives: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries\|publisher=Springer\|year=2017\|isbn=978-1-137-51598-8\|pages=29–30\|language=en}}</ref> before moving in 1892 to ''Darogar Daptar'' (The Inspectors files) devoted solely to his stories,<ref name=":1">{{Cite web\|title=One of India's earliest crime fiction stories was about a delicious scam involving books\|url=https://scroll.in/article/863960/one-of-indias-earliest-crime-fiction-stories-was-about-a-delicious-scam-involving-books\|website=Scroll.in\|language=en\|access-date=2020-02-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.bd-pratidin.com/various/2013/05/17/169240 \|title=বাংলা সাহিত্যে গোয়েন্দা \|website=Bangladesh Pratidin\|language=bn\|access-date=2020-02-24}}</ref> writing 206 stories<ref name=":0" />over the next 11 years.

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