Lal Behari Dey
Lal Behari Dey (1824-1892) was a Bengali journalist and Christian missionary. Born near Bardhaman, Lal Behari moved to Calcutta with his father in 1834 to study with Reverend Alexander Duff. Over the next decade, he converted to Christianity and studied English, eventually publishing a prizewinning essay titled The Falsity of the Hindu Religion (1842). From 1865 to 1867, he served as a missionary and minister for the Free Church of Scotland before finding work as an English professor in...
