Baghbazar in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Kolkata)
Died
8 February 1912(1912-02-08) (aged 67)
Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Kolkata)
Nationality
British Indian
Alma mater
Hare school Oriental Seminary
Occupation(s)
Actor, director, and writer
Spouse
Pramodini Devi
Girish Chandra Ghosh (28 February 1844 – 8 February 1912) was a Bengali actor, director, and writer. He was largely responsible for the golden age of Bengali theatre.[1][2][3] He cofounded the Great National Theatre, the first Bengali professional theatre company in 1872, wrote nearly 40 plays and acted and directed many more,[4] and later in life became a noted householder disciple of Sri Ramakrishna.[5]
Home of Girish Ghosh
^Nalini Natarajan; Emmanuel Sampath Nelson (1996). "Drama 1900 -1926". Handbook of twentieth-century literatures of India. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 48. ISBN 0313287783.
^Kundu, Pranay K. Development of Stage and Theatre Music in Bengal. Published in Banerjee, Jayasri (ed.), The Music of Bengal. Baroda: Indian Musicological Society, 1987.
^Sisir Kumar Das (1991). History of Indian Literature: 1800–1910 : Western Impact, British Response. Sahitya Akademi. p. 283. ISBN 8172010060.
^"Girish Chandra Ghosh". Encyclopædia Britannica. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2009.
^Christopher Isherwood (1980). Ramakrishna and his disciples. Vedanta Press. p. 247. ISBN 087481037X.
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