15 September 1876

15 September 1876 is the birth date recorded for Saratchandra Chattopadhyay, the Bengali novelist whose later work included Devdas. The date anchors his life in Devanandapur, a village in West Bengal, before a childhood and youth marked by dire poverty and very little formal education.

Biographical Context

The account places Saratchandra’s birth in a rural setting and describes the hardship of his early years. He began writing as a teenager and went on to become one of the best-loved Bengali novelists, but the source does not connect a particular later event or work to the date itself.