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Jaladhar Sen (13 March 1861 - 15 March 1939) was a littérateur, journalist and travel writer. He was born on 13 March 1860 in Kumarkhali village of Kushtia district. His teacher was Kangal Harinath, teacher of Banga Vidyalaya and editor of the weekly Grambarta Prakashika.
In 1878 Jaladhar passed the entrance examination from Kumarkhali school and enrolled at the General Assembly's Institution in Calcutta, but could not pass the FA examination. In his professional life he first joined the Goalanda school at Rajbari in Faridpur as a teacher (1881). Later he taught at the raj schools of Dehradun and Mohishadal (1891). In 1899 he went to Calcutta and took charge as editor of the Bangabasi newspaper, and was editor of the Hitabadi until 1907-09. From 1909 to 1911 he worked as Dewan of the Raja of Santosh. Returning to Calcutta from there, Jaladhar edited the Sulabh Samachar (1911) and the Bharatbarsha magazine (1320-1346). He was vice-president of the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad in two terms (1912-13 and 1936-38).
Jaladhar's true standing was as a writer. He wrote about 42 books in all, comprising textbooks, biographies, children's literature, translations, travel accounts, novels and short stories. Among them are the biography Kangal Harinath (two volumes, 1913 and 1914); the short stories Naibedya (1900), Kangaler Thakur (1920) and Boro Manush (1929); the novels Dukhini (1909), Abhagi (three volumes, 1915-32) and Utsa (1932); and the travel accounts Prabaschitra (1899) and Himalaya (1900). Besides these, he edited the Harinath Granthabali and the anthology of Pramathan's poems.
A unique picture of the joys and sorrows of domestic life and of love and separation is the special characteristic of Jaladhar Sen's fiction. In 1934, at an all-Bengal felicitation of Jaladhar, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay presented him with a citation on behalf of the people of the country. Jaladhar Sen was especially popular in the literary society of his time. In 1922 the British government honoured him with the title 'Rai Bahadur'. He died in Calcutta on 15 March 1939.
