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.Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan, Sahitya Samsad, Calcutta, 1960, p. 84 His name, "mirza", comes from the Muslim clothes he often wore.Chakrabarty, Ramakanta. Nidhu Babu and his Tappā. Published in Banerjee, Jayasri (ed.), The Music of Bengal. Baroda: Indian Musicological Society, 1987.
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