Hemendra Prasad Ghosh’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Bengali writer
Was Writer 
Journalist 
Editor 
Professor 
From India 
India 
Type Academia 
Journalism 
Literature 
Gender male
Birth 24 September 1876
Death 16 February 1962
(aged 85 years)
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