Rabindranath Datta (also known as Roby Datta) was an
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Poet and educator. He mostly wrote in English. He was born in a renowned
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family on 1 October 1883 in Sankar Ghosh Lane, Calcutta. His father was Gyanendra Nath Dutt a member of the Hatkhola Dutt family.
He studied in
Oxford University
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. He obtained BA (
Tripos
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, 1906) and MA (1910) degrees. He was called to the Bar (
Gray's Inn
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), 27 January 1908 and he enrolled in the
Calcutta High Court
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in 1909. However, he did not practice law. He taught
English
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and Comparative
Philology
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at
Calcutta University
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till his death in 1917. He was a very popular teacher.
He married an accomplished English woman Emily G.
Atkinson in 1913. Roby
Datta with his wife Emily lived in his ancestral house on Kashinath Dutt Road, Baranagore (a suburb of Calcutta (Kolkata), INDIA.
In
1909
Events
January–February
* January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes.
* January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
* J ...
, he wrote "Echoes from East and West"
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Writers from Kolkata
Academic staff of the University of Calcutta
20th-century Indian educators
1883 births
1917 deaths
20th-century Indian poets
Poets from West Bengal
Expatriates of British India in the United Kingdom