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'''Dinendra Kumar Roy''' (26 August 1869 – 27 June 1943) was a [[Bengalis|Bengali]] novelist and editor.<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Roy was born in 1869 in [[Meherpur District|Meherpur]], [[British India]]. His father name was Brajanath Roy. He passed entrance from [[Mahisadal Raj High School]] and entered in [[Krishnagar Government College]]. In 1893 Roy became employed under the District judge of [[Rajshahi District|Rajshahi]].<ref name="Vol - I 2002">{{Cite book|title=Sansad Bangali Charitavidhan (Bengali)|last=Vol - I|first=Subodh C. Sengupta & Anjali Basu|publisher=Sahitya Sansad|year=2002|isbn=81-85626-65-0|location=Kolkata|pages=207}}</ref> He was appointed as [[Bengali language]] tutor of [[Sri Aurobindo]] as per recommendation of [[Rabindranath Tagore]] and stayed 2 years with Aurabindo in [[Vadodara|Baroda]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aurobindo.ru/persons/00121_e.htm|title=Dinendra Kumar Roy|access-date=30 April 2018}}</ref><br />
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==Literary career==<br />
[[File:কৈসার-অন্তঃপুর রহস্য - দীনেন্দ্রকুমার রায়.pdf|thumb|Cover page of Rahasya Lahari Series]]<br />
Roy's first article was published in ''Bharati'' and ''Balok'' magazine. He became the sub editor of Saptahik Basumati magazine in 1900 at the same time edited Nandan Kanan monthly magazine. He became popular for ''Rahasya Lahari'' and ''Nandan Kanon'' detective series. Roy's created [[Robert Blake (Detective)]] series was based on [[Sexton Blake]] detective stories. In between 1898 and 1914 total 217 [[detective fiction]]s of Robert Blake were published in Bengali.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cF3WegP2WzAC&q=Dinendra+Kumar+Roy&pg=PA103|title=The Manichean Investigators: A Postcolonial and Cultural Rereading of the|last=Pinaki Roy|year=2008|isbn=9788176258494|access-date=30 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FNJSDwAAQBAJ&q=Dinendra+Kumar+Roy&pg=PT200|title=Clues: A Journal of Detection|last=Vol. 36, No. 1|date=23 March 2018|isbn=9781476633831|access-date=30 April 2018}}</ref> His books on villagers' lives and Hindu religious festivals in the villages of [[Bengal]] was admired by [[Tagore]].<ref name="Vol - I 2002" /><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xQVBAgAACAAJ|title=Racanāsaṃgraha|first1=Dinendra Kumar|last1=Roy|publisher=Ananda Publishers Pvt. Limited|year=2004|isbn=9788177563900|access-date=28 February 2020}}</ref> Roy's other Books are:<br />
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* ''Basanti''<br />
* ''Palli Baichitra''<br />
* ''Palli Chitra''<br />
* ''Hamida''<br />
* ''Pat''<br />
* ''Ajay Singher Kuthi''<br />
* ''Pallikatha''<br />
* ''Palli Charitra''<br />
* ''Dhenkir Kirti''<br />
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