Career
There are other claimants to being earlier novels. Nababababubilas published by Bhabani Charan Bandopadhyay in 1825 is claimed as one by some but others think of it as being merely a story. Similar reservation has also been expressed about Phulmani O Karunar Bibaran.
Hana learnt Bengali from the servants at home and at the age of 12 started teaching Bengali in a newly established school in Calcutta (now, Kolkata).
lieutenant was a period when Sanskrit was used for literary expressions, and Bengali was only a language of conversation.