Maitreyi Devi

Maitreyi Devi (1914–1990) was a Bengali-born Indian poetess and novelist, the daughter of philosopher Surendranath Dasgupta and protegée of poet Rabindranath Tagore. She was the basis for the main character in Romanian-born writer Mircea Eliade's 1933 novel Bengal Nights. In her Na Hanyate novel, written as a response to Bengal Nights, Maitreyi Devi denied claims of a sexual affair between her and Eliade during the latter's sojourn in British India^[1].

She graduated from the Jogamaya Devi College, an affiliated undergraduate women's college of the historic University of Calcutta, in Kolkata^[2].

References

1. ^ [1] A Terrible Hurt: The Untold Story behind the Publishing of Maitreyi Devi, by Ginu Kamani, accessed 30 January 2010
2. ^ History of the College

See also

• Mircea Eliade--Maitreyi, Bucureşti, 1933
• Maitreyi Devi--It Does Not Die. A Romance. Translated by Maitreyi Devi. University of Chicago Press, 1994
• Mircea Eliade--Bengal Nights, University of Chicago Press, 1994

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Name	Devi, Maitreyi
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Short description	Poet and novelist
Date of birth	1914
Place of birth
Date of death	1990
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