According to the family history, their ancestors were originally residents of a village named chatuti in the Rarh region of present-day West Bengal. During the Turkic invasion of Bengal in the thirteenth century, the Chatterji family left their ancestral village in West Bengal and took shelter in East Bengal.
The Chatterji family's origins are traced back to a village named Chatuti in the Rarh region of present-day West Bengal.  During the thirteenth-century Turkic invasion of Bengal, they migrated from their ancestral village in West Bengal to East Bengal for safety.