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About The Book:- The book explain the social system of rural population of Bengal. Early in the year 1871 Baboo Joy Kissen Mookerjea, of Uttarapara, a zemindar in Bengal, offered a prize of £50 for the best novel, to be written either in Bengali or in English, illustrating the “Social and Domestic Life of the Rural Population and working classes of Bengal.” The essays were sent in to the adjudicators early in 1872; but owing to the absence of two of the adjudicators in England and to other causes the award was not made till about the middle of 1874, when the following pages, written in English obtained the prize. About the Author:-Reverend Lal Behari Dey ((1824 –1892) was a Bengali Indian writer and journalist, who converted to Christianity, and became a Christian missionary himself. Lal Behari Dey was born on 18 December 1824 to a Suvarna Banik[2] caste family at Sonapalasi near Bardhaman. His father Radhakanta Dey Mondal was a small bill broker in Kolkata. After primary education in the village school he came to Calcutta with his father and was admitted to Reverend Alexander Duff's General Assembly Institution, where he studied from 1834 to 1844. (Duff's Institution is now the Scottish Church Collegiate School; he was one of the first five boys admitted by Duff.) Under Duff's tutelage he formally embraced Christianity on 2 July 1843. In 1842, a year before his baptism he had published a tract, The Falsity of the Hindu Religion, which had won a prize for the best essay from a local Christian society. The Title 'BENGAL PEASANT LIFE written/authored/edited by LAL BEHARI DAY', published in the year 2022. The ISBN 9788121262897 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 404 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is sociology. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-