Question: Who was the first writer of fiction in indian english literature?

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context: Bhanu Singha Thakur (Bhonita), and also known by his sobriquets Gurudev, Kabiguru, and Biswakabi, was a polymath, poet, musician, and artist from the Indian subcontinent. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse" of "Gitanjali", he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He is sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal".
question: Who was the first writer of fictional poetry and texts in indian english literature?
short_answers: Bhanu Singha Thakur
Rabindranath Tagore
Bhonita
wikipage: Rabindranath Tagore
context: IEL has a relatively recent history, being only one and a half centuries old. The first book written by an Indian in English was "Travels of Dean Mahomed", a travel narrative by Sake Dean Mahomed published in England in 1793. In its early stages, IEL was influenced by the Western novel. Early Indian writers used English unadulterated by Indian words to convey an experience which was essentially Indian. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838–1894) wrote "Rajmohan's Wife" and published it in 1864; it is the first Indian novel written in English. Raja Rao (1908–2006), Indian philosopher and writer, authored "Kanthapura" and "The Serpent and the Rope", which are Indian in terms of their storytelling qualities. Kisari Mohan Ganguli translated the Mahabharata into English, the only time the epic has ever been translated in its entirety into a European language. Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) wrote in Bengali and English and was responsible for the translations of his own work into English. Dhan Gopal Mukerji (1890–1936) was the first Indian author to win a literary award in the United States. Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897–1999), a writer of non-fiction, is best known for his "The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian" (1951), in which he relates his life experiences and influences. P. Lal (1929–2010), a poet, translator, publisher and essayist, founded a press in the 1950s for Indian English writing, Writers Workshop. Ram Nath Kak (1917–1993), a Kashmiri veterinarian, wrote his autobiography "Autumn Leaves", which is one of the most vivid portraits of life in 20th century Kashmir and has become a sort of a classic.
question: Who was the first writer of a published fictional novel in indian english literature?
short_answers: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Bankimchandra Chatterjee
wikipage: Indian English literature

Long-form answers:
knowledge: content: Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (/rəˈbɪndrənɑːt tæˈɡɔːr/ (About this soundlisten); born Robindronath Thakur, 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941; sobriquet Gurudev, Kobiguru, Biswakobi)[a] was a Bengali polymath – poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter.
wikipage: Rabindranath Tagore
long_answer: Rabindranath Tagore was the first writer of fictional poetry and text in Indian English literature. However, the first published fictional novel in Indian English literature was written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay.