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{{infobox writer
| name = Vishwanath Datta
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| birth_date = 1835
| birth_place = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British Raj|British India]]
| death_date = 25 February 1884 [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British Raj|British India]]

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| language = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]
| nationality = [[India|Indian]]
| subject = [[Attorney at law]], [[novelist]]
| parents = Durgaprasad Dutta (father)<br />Shyamsundari Devi (mother)
| spouse = Bhubaneshwari Devi (1841 — 25 July 1911)
| children = Swarnabala, [[Swami_Vivekananda|Narendranath]], Mahendranath Datta, [[Bhupendranath_Datta|Bhupendranath]]
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'''Vishwanath Datta''' (1835 — 25 February 1884) was a [[Bengalis|Bengali]] [[Attorney at law]],<ref name=":0" /> philanthropist and novelist. He was the father of [[Swami Vivekananda]], Mahendranath Dutta and [[Bhupendranath Dutta]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qcHyDAAAQBAJ&q=Vishwanath%2520Datta&pg=PT16 |title=VIVEKANANDA FOR YOU ( ENGLISH ) |last=Chowdhury |first=Satyam Roy |date=2016-09-01 |publisher=Techno India |language=en}}</ref>

==Early life==
Vishwanath was born in an aristocratic Hindu family of [[North Kolkata]]. His father Durgaprasad (1816—1850/55) preferred ''Sannyas'' life and left home when Vishwanath was six years old only. There is an interesting incident when he longed to return to [[Calcutta]] after five years of wandering for sanyass which [[Swami Vivekananda]] used to listen in his childhood. It happened so that, in somewhere between 1845 or 1846 Durgaprasad returned to Calcutta, He was recognised by one of his neighbours who locked him in a tiny room in his house so he cannot escape and remain in a starving condition as Sanyassi. He was locked in this room for 3 days. At last, on the third day the neighbour's wife Sarita Devi took pity on him and helped him escape from the house. Later Vishwanath was brought up by his uncle. He entered in Gourmohan Addy's school or [[Oriental Seminary]]. After completion of graduation in 1859 Datta worked as a clerk under an attorney, Charles Peter.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J8bLf0kBTTkC&q=Vishwanath%2520Datta&pg=PA14 |title=Political Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda |last=Mohapatra |first=Kalpana |date=1996 |publisher=Northern Book Centre |isbn=9788172110796 |language=en}}</ref>

==Career==
Datta was an enlightened person of the 18th century, free from religious superstitions, known for his charity and liberal outlook.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Vivekananda|first=Swami|url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=afp0DwAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PT7&dq=attorney+Vishwanath+Datta&hl=en&redir_esc=y|title=Vivekananda: His Call to the Nation|publisher=Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)|isbn=978-81-7505-917-7|language=en}}</ref> He was well versed in [[Sanskrit]], [[Hindi]], [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Arabic]] and [[Urdu]] languages.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZLmFDRortS0C&pg=PA4|title=Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India|last=P. R. Bhuyan|year=2003|isbn=9788126902347|access-date=February 12, 2018}}</ref>

He married Bhuvaneswari Devi in 1851 and had nine children. Narendranath Dutta, his sixth child and second son, who later became famous as [[Swami Vivekananda]], was born in 1863.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article4157.html|title=Swami Vivekananda: A Life Divine|last=VOL LI, No 20|date=May 4, 2013|access-date=February 12, 2018}}</ref>

In 1866 he applied for the post of proctor to Sir [[Barnes Peacock]], the first Chief Justice of [[Calcutta High Court]]. His prayer was approved by Justice [[Walter Morgan (judge)]]. Datta also maintained a law firm in Kolkata named Dhar & Datta. Later he faced serious economic troubles for frequent litigation and lawsuits among Datta family.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TfP5kBxkZaAC&pg=PA1|title=The Monk as Man: The Unknown Life of Swami Vivekananda|last=Samkara|year=2011|isbn=9780143101192|access-date=February 12, 2018}}</ref>

==Literary works==
Datta wrote a [[Bengali language|Bengali]] autobiographical novel named ''Sulochana'' based on a joint family dispute. In 1882 the novel was first published in [[Kolkata]] (then "Calcutta").<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.vivekananda.net/PPlHeKnew/Family/Father.html|title=Viswanath Datta|access-date=February 12, 2018}}</ref>

==References==
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{{Swami Vivekananda}}
{{Bengal Renaissance}}

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