Sarat Chandra Kuthi

The plot for Sarat Chandra Kuthi in Samta was bought by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay in 1919, at a sum of 1,100. Samta was close to the village of Panitras and to his sister's home. Construction of the house began in 1923, and was done by local worker Gopal Das; Sarat Chandra had moved in by February 1923. He fenced his area and added ponds and paddy fields adjacent to his house; following which he renamed the area Samtaber. A total sum of 17,000 was spent on the construction. Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay lived in Sarat Chandra Kuthi for twelve years, until moving to Calcutta. Earlier, the course of the Rupnarayan river was much closer to the house. Sarat Chandra's works such as Devdas, Baikunther Will (''Baikuntha's Will), Dena Paona (Debts and Dividends), Datta (Bethroed), and Nishkriti (Deliverance) among others were published in Bharatbarsha during the years he lived in Samta, following which they were published as books by Gurudas Chattopadhyay and Sons, and M. C. Sarkar and Sons. He also wrote Ramer Sumati and Mahesh'' among others during his years in Samta. Parts of the house, such as the mud-walled kitchen, had collapsed and the house was damaged in the 1978 West Bengal floods. The Zilla Parishad repaired the house, and it was declared a heritage-historical site under the West Bengal Heritage Commission Act (IX) of 2001. In 2009, the house was renovated and preservation of the novelist's personal belongings was also undertaken. ==Gallery==

File:Gateway - House of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay - Samtaber - Howrah 2014-10-19 9770.JPG|Entrance to the house File:Sarat-Smriti-Mandir - Plaque - House of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay - Samtaber - Howrah 2014-10-19 9779.JPG|Plaque at the entrance, reading 'Sarat Smriti Mandir' File:Study with Furniture - First Floor West - House of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay - Samtaber - Howrah 2014-10-19 9838.JPG|Study room File:Western and Southern Verandas - Ground Floor - House of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay - Samtaber - Howrah 2014-10-19 9781-9784.TIF|Ground-floor corridor File:Southern Veranda - First Floor - House of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay - Samtaber - Howrah 2014-10-19 9816-9817.TIF|First-floor corridor-verandah File:Samta - Sarat Chandra's House.JPG|Garden of the house, with trees planted by the novelist File:House of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay 06.jpg|Samadhis of Sarat Chandra, his brother, and his second wife, Hironmoyee Debi File:Western Living Room - First Floor - House of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay - Samtaber - Howrah 2014-10-19 9841.JPG|A room inside the house File:Samta - The pond Sarat Chandra mentioned in Palli Samaj.JPG|Pond opposite the house File:Samta - Statue of Sarat Chandra.JPG|Statue of the novelist, in the house's gardens File:Samta - The Dhaner Gola in Sarat Chandra's House.JPG|Mud-walled kitchen ==References==