Kali Mirza

{{Short description|Indian composer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} '''Kalidas Chattopadhyay''' ({{langx|bn|কালিদাস চট্টোপাধ্যায়}}), better known as '''Kali Mirza''' ({{langx|bn|কালী মীর্জা}}), was an 18th-century composer of ''tappā'' music in Bengal. A contemporary of Nidhu Babu, he composed over 400 ''tappā''s. He received his training in the cities of Delhi and Lucknow. He was born at Guptipara, Hooghly District in present-day West Bengal.<ref>''Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan'', Sahitya Samsad, Calcutta, 1960, p. 84</ref> His name, "mirza", comes from the Muslim clothes he often wore.<ref>Chakrabarty, Ramakanta. ''Nidhu Babu and his Tappā.'' Published in Banerjee, Jayasri (ed.), ''The Music of Bengal''. Baroda: Indian Musicological Society, 1987.</ref>

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