Sarat Chandra Kuthi, Samta

Sarat Chandra Kuthi, also called Sarat Smriti Mandir, is the house of the Bengali novelist Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay in Samta village, Howrah district, on the banks of the Rupnarayan. He bought the land in 1919, and the two-storey, Burmese-style house was put up in 1923 by a local builder, Gopal Das, at a cost of ₹17,000. He lived here for twelve years before moving to Calcutta, and in that time works including Devdas, Datta, Nishkriti, Ramer Sumati and Mahesh were written or serialised.

The 1978 floods damaged the house, and the Zilla Parishad repaired it; it is now a protected heritage site and was renovated in 2009, when the writer's personal belongings were also conserved. The gardens hold the samadhis of the novelist, Hironmoyee Debi, his second wife, and Swami Vedananda, his brother, along with bamboo and guava trees he planted himself.