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Kalidas Chattopadhyay (Bengali: কালিদাস চট্টোপাধ্যায়), better known as Kali Mirza (Bengali: কালী মীর্জা), was an 18th-century composer of tappā music in Bengal. A contemporary of Nidhu Babu, he composed over 400 tappās. He received his training in the cities of Delhi and Lucknow. He was born at Guptipara, Hooghly District in present-day West Bengal.^[1] His name, "mirza", comes from the Muslim clothes he often wore.^[2]

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↑ Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan, Sahitya Samsad, Calcutta, 1960, p. 84
↑ Chakrabarty, Ramakanta. Nidhu Babu and his Tappā. Published in Banerjee, Jayasri (ed.), The Music of Bengal. Baroda: Indian Musicological Society, 1987.

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[1] Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan, Sahitya Samsad, Calcutta, 1960, p. 84

[2] Chakrabarty, Ramakanta. Nidhu Babu and his Tappā. Published in Banerjee, Jayasri (ed.), The Music of Bengal. Baroda: Indian Musicological Society, 1987.

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