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== Career ==
Mukhopadhyay was born at [[Chuadanga District|Chuadanga]], undevided [[Nadia district|Nadia]] in [[Presidencies and provinces of British India|Britsih India]]. He 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&q=Priyanath+Mukhopadhyay&pg=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
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