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 '''Early Life and Education'''
-De was born in Balasore, Orissa. He was born in to a Brahmo family of Calcutta. He was the second son of [[Brajendranath De]], Esq., ICS, the first Indian Magistrate and Collector of Hooghly and Commissioner (offg.) of Burdwan Division in Bengal and Nagendranandini De (née Bose). He completed his education at [[Hare School, Calcutta]] and [[Presidency College, Calcutta]], where he completed his B.A. (Hons.) in English. He attended [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], where his moral tutor was J.D. Anderson, Esq., ICS. Later he was also admitted to The Honourable Society of [[Middle Temple]].<ref name="districtgazetteers">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44156392?loggedin=true&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Irfan Habib, "Professor Barun De (1932-2013)" in ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', Volume 73, 2012, pp. 1553-1555]</ref>
+De was born in Balasore, Orissa. He was born in to a Brahmo family of Calcutta. He was the second son of [[Brajendranath De]], Esq., ICS, the first Indian Magistrate and Collector of Hooghly and Commissioner (offg.) of Burdwan Division in Bengal and Nagendranandini De (née Bose). He completed his education at [[Hare School, Calcutta]] and [[Presidency College, Calcutta]], where he completed his B.A. (Hons.) in English. He attended [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], where his moral tutor was J.D. Anderson, Esq., ICS. Later he was also admitted to The Honourable Society of [[Middle Temple]].<ref name="awomanofindia">Kundu, Rajib, (tr. & ed.), Saroj Nalini: Shankhipta Jibani, (Ababhash, Kolkata, 2014) (in Bengali), (translation of her husband Gurusaday Dutt's, A Woman of India: Being the Life of Saroj Nalini (Founder of Women's Institute Movement in India (with a forward by Rabindranath Tagore), (Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1941)</ref>
 '''Career'''
-He was recruited in to the BNR in London in 1921. His first posting was as Assistant Commercial Officer. In that capacity he played an important role in the building of the BNR Hotel in Puri. As a young officer posted in Kharagpore he witnessed the first railway workshop strike there led by V.V. Giri in 1927.
+He was recruited in to the BNR in London in 1921. His first posting was as Assistant Commercial Officer. In that capacity he played an important role in the building of the BNR Hotel in Puri. As a young officer posted in Kharagpore he witnessed the first railway workshop strike there led by V.V. Giri in 1927.<ref name="districtgazetteers">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44156392?loggedin=true&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Irfan Habib, "Professor Barun De (1932-2013)" in ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', Volume 73, 2012, pp. 1553-1555]</ref>
 He was tasked with the responsibility of carrying out the survey work for the laying of the Raipur-Vizianagram and Sonepur-Bolangir railway lines in 1931. Through the 1930s he served as District Commercial Officer in Waltair, Kharagpore, Nainpur and Adra. While he was in Adra for a second time, he was given the responsibility of managing the transportation of Congress leaders and workers attending the Ramgarh Session of the Indian National Congress of 1941. In this connection he had to visit Mahatma Gandhi there. <ref name="oralhistory">[https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/atbohp/Barun%2BDe%3Fdesktop%3Dtrue%26macroName%3Dattachments&ved=2ahUKEwiykozQoIH1AhUVxDgGHaIvCykQFnoECAYQAQ&usg=AOvVaw083H797WHC9n5MOfE8i6xG Text of Barun De's interview given to Kris Manjapra for Tufts University Oral History Archive, 2009]</ref>