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He was a playwright and dramatist.
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'''Bijon Bhattacharya''' ({{lang-bn|বিজন ভট্টাচার্য}}) (17 July 1915 – 19 January 1978) was an Indian theatre and film actor from [[West Bengal]].<ref name="KaminskyPh.D.2011">{{cite book|author1=Arnold P. Kaminsky|author2=Roger D. Long PhD|title=India Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wWDnTWrz4O8C&pg=PA431|year=2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-37462-3|page=431}}</ref>  
'''Bijon Bhattacharya''' ({{lang-bn|বিজন ভট্টাচার্য}}) (17 July 1915 – 19 January 1978) was an Indian theatre and film actor from [[West Bengal]].<ref name="KaminskyPh.D.2011">{{cite book|author1=Arnold P. Kaminsky|author2=Roger D. Long PhD|title=India Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wWDnTWrz4O8C&pg=PA431|year=2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-37462-3|page=431}}</ref>He was an eminent playwright and dramatist.


Bhattacharya was born in 1915 at [[Faridpur District|Faridpur]] (now in [[Bangladesh]]) to a [[Hindu]], Bengali [[Brahmin]] family, and was an early witness to the destitution and penury of the peasantry of that land.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kennedy |first=Dennis |date=2003 |title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre & Performance: A-L. Vol. 1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j_Z7RAAACAAJ |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-191-72781-8 |access-date=8 August 2020 |archive-date=11 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201011124513/https://books.google.com/books?id=j_Z7RAAACAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> He became a member of the [[Indian People’s Theatre Association]] (IPTA).
Bhattacharya was born in 1915 at [[Faridpur District|Faridpur]] (now in [[Bangladesh]]) to a [[Hindu]], Bengali [[Brahmin]] family, and was an early witness to the destitution and penury of the peasantry of that land.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kennedy |first=Dennis |date=2003 |title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre & Performance: A-L. Vol. 1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j_Z7RAAACAAJ |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-191-72781-8 |access-date=8 August 2020 |archive-date=11 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201011124513/https://books.google.com/books?id=j_Z7RAAACAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> He became a member of the [[Indian People’s Theatre Association]] (IPTA).
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