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 Dictionary of Indian Biography D to F

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Date transcribed2011-03-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Dutt    
First Name(s)  Toru    
Year of Birth  1856    
Year of Death  1877    
Entry  Torulata Dutta, the youngest daughter of Govinda Chandra Dutt, a native Christian convert : born at Calcutta in 1856 : she and her elder sister, Aru, were taken to England by their father for education, 1869-73 : studied French at Nice, and English thoroughly : attended lectures at Cambridge and St. Leonards : on their return to Calcutta, Toru Dutt studied Sanskrit and French, and began to contribute poetical compositions and essays to local magazines, especially to the Bengal Magazine. In 1874 Aru died of consumption. In 1876 Toru published a collection of her lyrics translated from the French, A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields, showing considerable acquaintance with French and English literature, very favourably reviewed in the English and French Press. She also died of consumption on Aug. 30, 1877 : the sisters were good musicians : neither of them married. Besides her ballads and legends of Hindustan, poems and translations, Toru left the MS. of a French novel entitled Le lournal de Mdlle. Warvers.     
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