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De, a member of a Kayastha (কায়স্থ) | De, a member of a Kayastha (কায়স্থ)-Brahmo (ব্রাহ্ম) family of Calcutta, was born to Durgadas De (দূর্গাদাস দে), an early student of Hindu College, Calcutta (later renamed Presidency University) and Trailokyamohini Debi (ত্রৈলোক্যমোহিনী দেবী). He studied at [[Hare School]], [[Calcutta]], and then Canning Collegiate School and Canning College, Lucknow,<ref name="Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari'">[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.116007/2015.116007.The-Tabaqat-i-akbari-Of-Khwajah-Nizamuddin-Ahmad-Voliii_djvu.txt Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari']</ref> where he was a pupil of Saiyid Husain Bilgrami. | ||
Later, he travelled to England for his higher studies, joining University College, London to appear in the Open Competitive Services examination. He joined the ICS in 1873,<ref>{{cite book |last=India Office, Great Britain |date=1905 |title=The India List and India Office List 1905 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA447 |publisher=Harrison and Sons |page=447}}</ref> becoming the 8th Indian member of the steel frame.<ref name="womenofindia">Geraldine Forbes, 'Women in Modern India', The New Cambridge History of India, Volume IV.2, (Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 28–29</ref> Subsequently, he was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple on 7 June 1875.<ref>Renu Paul (in consultation with Mitra Sharafi), 'South Asians at the Inns of Court: Middle Temple, 1863-1944', compilation based on H. A. C. Sturgess, (eds.) Register of Admissions to the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. From the Fifteenth Century to the Year 1944 (London: published for the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple by Butterworth & Co., 1949), volumes II (1782-1909) and III (1910-44), p. 2.</ref> He was admitted to St. Mary Hall, Oxford, where he spent one year, from 1874-1875, on a Boden Sanskrit Scholarship, attending lectures of Max Mueller and Monier-Williams.<ref name="oxforduniversitycalender">Oxford University Calendar, 1875, p. 366</ref><ref name="bkde'snote"> Note written by his third eldest son, Basanta Kumar De, on the occasion of his mother's 50th death anniversary in 1969.</ref> | Later, he travelled to England for his higher studies, joining University College, London to appear in the Open Competitive Services examination. He joined the ICS in 1873,<ref>{{cite book |last=India Office, Great Britain |date=1905 |title=The India List and India Office List 1905 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA447 |publisher=Harrison and Sons |page=447}}</ref> becoming the 8th Indian member of the steel frame.<ref name="womenofindia">Geraldine Forbes, 'Women in Modern India', The New Cambridge History of India, Volume IV.2, (Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 28–29</ref> Subsequently, he was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple on 7 June 1875.<ref>Renu Paul (in consultation with Mitra Sharafi), 'South Asians at the Inns of Court: Middle Temple, 1863-1944', compilation based on H. A. C. Sturgess, (eds.) Register of Admissions to the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. From the Fifteenth Century to the Year 1944 (London: published for the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple by Butterworth & Co., 1949), volumes II (1782-1909) and III (1910-44), p. 2.</ref> He was admitted to St. Mary Hall, Oxford, where he spent one year, from 1874-1875, on a Boden Sanskrit Scholarship, attending lectures of Max Mueller and Monier-Williams.<ref name="oxforduniversitycalender">Oxford University Calendar, 1875, p. 366</ref><ref name="bkde'snote"> Note written by his third eldest son, Basanta Kumar De, on the occasion of his mother's 50th death anniversary in 1969.</ref> | ||