About Kali Mirza
Kali Mirza was an Indian composer.
Kalidas Chattopadhyay , better known as Kali Mirza , 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. His name, "mirza", comes from the Muslim clothes he often wore.
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