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Sudhindranath Datta

Died in 1960

Sudhindranath Datta was born on 30 October 1901 in Calcutta, the son of the lawyer and Vedic scholar Hirendranath Dutta. A pupil of the Theosophical school in Benares and a graduate of the Scottish Church College, he abandoned the master's degree in English and the study of law. He accompanied Tagore to America in 1929, founded the journal Parichay in 1931, which he edited for twelve years, worked at the Statesman from 1945 to 1949, taught at the University of Chicago from 1957 to 1959, then comparative literature at Jadavpur. He died in Calcutta on 25 June 1960.

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