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| birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name -->Dulal Chandra Mukherjee<br />
| birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living people supply only the year with {{Birth year and age|YYYY}} unless the exact date is already widely published, as per [[BP:DOB]]. For people who have died, use {{Birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}}. -->2 November 1910<br />
| birth_place = [[Bhawanipore]], [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British Raj|British India]]<br />
| death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (DEATH date then BIRTH date) -->13 April 1978<br />
| death_place = [[Chinsurah]], [[West Bengal]], India<br />
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| occupation = Writer<br />
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| notable_works = ''Marutirtha Hinglaj''<br/>''Uddharanpurer Ghat''<br />
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'''Dulal Chandra Mukherjee''' (2 November 1910—13 April 1978), known by his pen name '''Kalikananda Abadhut''', was an Indian novelist, saint and traveller who wrote in [[Bengali language]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Abadhut born to Anathnath Mukherjee in [[Bhowanipore]], [[Calcutta]] (now Kolkata) of [[Bengal Presidency]]. His real name was Dulal Chandra Mukherjee but he took a pen name Kalikananda Abadhut.<ref>{{Cite web |title=সংসার থেকে পালাতে গিয়ে অবধূত যেন বিশ্বসংসারের বাসিন্দা হয়ে গেলেন |url=https://www.anandabazar.com/patrika/a-special-write-up-on-novelist-kalikananda-abadhut-1.1177263 |access-date=28 August 2021 |website=www.anandabazar.com |language=bn}}</ref> After the death of his wife he became saint in [[Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga]] Temple in [[Ujjain]]. He was mostly popular for his book ''Marutirtha Hinglaj'' which is based on real life experience about his pilgrimage to [[Hinglaj]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Gupta|first=Swarupa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jjE9DwAAQBAJ&dq=Kalikananda+Abadhut&pg=PA351|title=Cultural Constellations, Place-Making and Ethnicity in Eastern India, c. 1850-1927|date=1 November 2017|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-34976-6|language=en}}</ref> The film ''[[Marutirtha Hinglaj]]'' on his travelogue was also released in 1959.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jjE9DwAAQBAJ&dq=kalikananda+abadhut+marutirtha&pg=PA351|title=Cultural Constellations, Place-Making and Ethnicity in Eastern India|last=Swarupa Gupta|date=November 2017|publisher=BRILL |isbn=9789004349766|access-date=19 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kff.in/film.php?f=436|title=Marutirtha Hinglaj|access-date=19 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180409043826/http://www.kff.in/film.php?f=436|archive-date=9 April 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> He edited the book of Upanishads. He resided few years in [[Uddharanpur]], [[Bardhaman district|Bardhaman]] to gather experiences before writing another novel ''Uddharanpurer Gat''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CukvAAAAIAAJ&q=Abadhut+Uddharanpur|title=Indian Writing Today|date=1969|publisher=Nirmala Sadanand Publishers|language=en}}</ref> Abadhuta also practised [[Tantra]] in his personal life.<ref>{{Cite news |title=সম্পাদক সমীপেষু: মুক্ত কণ্ঠকে এত ভয়! |url=https://www.anandabazar.com/editorial/letters-to-the-editor/state-machinery-always-feared-telugu-poet-varavara-rao-1.1184166 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308140028/https://www.anandabazar.com/editorial/letters-to-the-editor/state-machinery-always-feared-telugu-poet-varavara-rao-1.1184166 |archive-date=8 March 2021 |access-date=11 June 2025 |url-status=live }}</ref> He established Rudrachandi Math in [[Chinsurah]] and live his last life there till death.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Prohor |title=তাঁর সাহিত্যে মৃত্যু এক চরিত্র: সাহিত্য ও জীবনদর্শনে অবধূত - Prohor |url=https://www.prohor.in/index.php/a-special-write-up-on-abadhut |access-date=11 June 2025 |website=তাঁর সাহিত্যে মৃত্যু এক চরিত্র: সাহিত্য ও জীবনদর্শনে অবধূত - Prohor |language=en}}</ref><br />
[[File:House of author Kalikananda Abadhuta, at Chinsura 05.jpg|left|thumb|Statue of Kalikananda Abadhuta, beside his house at Chinsura, Hooghly]]<br />
He was secretly associated with revolutionary work. He hid himself in different places for two decades. The names of those places are still unknown. He spent several places hiding in Faridpur of Bangladesh, Burma (now Myanmar) outside India, Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh. He was also a pujari of the Kalimandir of Kashi in Uttar Pradesh and also spent several years of his life at Jajan in Murshidabad, Uddharanpur Ghat in Burdwan. He also visited Hinglaj Mata mandir in Balochistan province of Pakistan.<br />
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==Works==<br />
* ''Bohubrihee''<br />
* ''Bashikaran''<br />
* ''Debarigan''<br />
* ''Hinglajer Pare''<br />
* ''Uddharanpurer Ghat''<br />
* ''Kalitirtha Kalighat''<br />
* ''Marutirtha Hinglaj''<br />
* ''Kaushiki Kanara''<br />
* ''Piyari''<br />
* ''Nilkantha Himalaya''<br />
* ''Sachcha Darbar''<br />
* ''Saptaswara Pinakini''<br />
* ''Tappa Thungri''<br />
* ''Subhaya Bhabatu''<br />
* ''Sumeru Kumeru''<br />
* ''Swamighatini''<br />
* ''Kan Pete Roi''<br />
* ''Mon Mane Na''<br />
* ''Sukh Shanti Valobasa''<br />
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