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{{Short description|Bengali writer & detective}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Priyanath Mukhopadhyay
| birth_date = {{Birth date |1855|6|4|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Chuadanga]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1947|6|20|1855|6|4|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Calcutta]], [[India]]
| occupation = Author<br>police [[inspector]]
| language = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]
| notableworks = Darogar Daptar
| citizenship = India
}}
'''Priyanath Mukhopadhyay''' (4{{nbsp}}June 1855{{snd}}20{{nbsp}}June 1947)<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Roy|first=Pinaki|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cF3WegP2WzAC&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}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=প্রিয়নাথ মুখোপাধ্যায় - উইকিসংকলন একটি মুক্ত পাঠাগার|url=https://bn.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%96%E0%A6%95:%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A5_%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%96%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A7%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC|access-date=2021-05-22|website=bn.wikisource.org|language=bn}}</ref> was a [[Bengalis|Bengali]] writer and police detective in Calcutta during the British era.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Kannabiran |first1=Kalpana |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EaMGo6zqzNYC&dq=Priyanath+Mukhopadhyay&pg=PA42 |title=Challenging The Rules(s) of Law: Colonialism, Criminology and Human Rights in India |last2=Singh |first2=Ranbir |date=2008-11-11 |publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=978-0-7619-3665-7 |language=en}}</ref> 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|access-date=24 February 2020}}<br>- {{Cite web|url=https://www.anandabazar.com/supplementary/rabibashoriyo/which-is-more-poisonous-scorpion-or-devil-s-trumpet-1.386839|title=কী করে খুন করি
|website=Anandabazar Patrika|language=bn|access-date=24 February 2020}}<br>- {{Cite web|url=https://www.prothomalo.com/onnoalo/article/1044775/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%99%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BE-%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0|title=বঙ্গের গোয়েন্দা-চরিত্র|website=Prothom Alo|date=23 December 2016 |language=bn|access-date=24 February 2020}}<br>- {{Cite web|title=Calcutta noir|url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/LibY45l3PWg0B2DYI8SsCN/Calcutta-noir.html|last=Bag|first=Shamik|date=17 January 2015|website=Livemint|access-date=4 May 2020}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Mukhopadhyay was born in [[Chuadanga District|Chuadanga]], undivided [[Nadia district|Nadia]] in [[Presidencies and provinces of British India|British India]]. He was an inspector at [[Lalbazar]] Police Station in the detective department of the [[Calcutta Police]]. He worked in the department for 33 years, from 1878 to 1911. He was a detective of the [[Calcutta Police]]. The British Government gave him the title of [[Roybahadur]] (রায়বাহাদুর) for his excellent record in solving crimes in the city.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/detective-dead-whodunnit/cid/1288901|title=Detective dead, whodunnit?|website=The Telegraph|location=India|access-date=22 February 2020}}</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}}</ref> before moving in 1892 to ''Darogar Daptar'' (The Inspector's 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|author=Abhijit Gupta
|date=10 January 2018 |url=https://scroll.in/article/863960/one-of-indias-earliest-crime-fiction-stories-was-about-a-delicious-scam-involving-books|website=Scroll|access-date=22 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bd-pratidin.com/various/2013/05/17/169240
|title=বাংলা সাহিত্যে গোয়েন্দা|website=Bangladesh Pratidin|date=17 May 2013 |language=bn|access-date=24 February 2020}}</ref> writing 206 stories<ref name=":0" /> over the next 11 years. Some detractors claim that many of his self-proclaimed experiences written in ''Darogar Daptar'' were actually stories heavily inspired by foreign authors like [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]] and others.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024|reason=He did work in the Lalbazar, so it is highly likely that these were his personal experiences. There is no evidence that it were inspired by Sherlock Holmes.}}

He wrote his autobiography in 1911.<ref name=":1" />

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