Basanta Kumar De: Difference between revisions

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 [[James Drummond 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> His son was the historian, [[Barun De]].