Kalidas Chattopadhyay (), better known as Kali Mirza (), was an 18th-century composer of ''

tappā Tappa is a form of Indian semi-classical vocal music. Its specialty is a rolling pace based on fast, subtle and knotty construction. Its tunes are melodious and sweet, and depict the emotional outbursts of a lover. Tappe (plural) were sung mostly ...

'' music in

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. A contemporary of

Nidhu Babu Ramnidhi Gupta () (1741– 6 April 1839), commonly known as Nidhu Babu, was one of the reformers of Bengali '' tappā'' music. Nidhu Babu was born in Chapta, Hooghly District at his maternal uncle's house.Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan by Anjali ...

, he composed over 400 ''tappā''s. He received his training in the cities of

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and

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. He was born at

Guptipara Guptipara is a village in Balagarh, a community development block that forms an administrative division in the Sadar subdivision of the Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Guptipara sits beside the Hooghly River ...

Hooghly District Hooghly district () is one of the districts of the Indian state of West Bengal. It can alternatively be spelt ''Hoogli'' or ''Hugli''. The district is named after the Hooghly River. The headquarters of the district are at Hooghly-Chinsurah (' ...

in present-day

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. His name, " mirza", comes from the Muslim clothes he often wore.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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Indian male composers 18th-century Indian composers Musicians from West Bengal {{Mirza-stub