Rangalal Bandyopadhyay

[2] In 1827 Bandyopadhyay was born at Bakulia village, Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal at his maternal grandfather's house.

His original home was at Rameswarpur village situated near Guptipara of Hooghly, West Bengal.

[3] Bandyopadhyay's poems were first published in Sangbad Prabhakar, the magazine of Ishwar Chandra Gupta.

In this work, a Charan of Rajputana recounts the story of the sacrificial death of Padmini while showing the site of her jauhar.

[6] His important poetical works include Karmadevi (1862), Shurasundari (1868) and Kanchi Kaveri (1879), recreated from the same name in odia of poet Purushottama Dasa.