Ashwini Kumar Dutta
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Ashwini Kumar Dutta | |
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British India | |
Nationality | Indian |
Occupation(s) | Educationist, philanthropist |
Parent | Brajamohan Dutta |
Ashwini Kumar Dutta (25 January 1856 – 7 November 1923) was a Bengali
Early life
Ashwini Kumar Dutta was born in an affluent high class
Career
Dutta started his career as a teacher at the
The Partition of Bengal drew him to the Swadeshi movement. He founded the Swadesh Bandhab Samiti to promote the consumption of indigenous products and boycott foreign goods. When the moderates and the extremists parted ways in the Surat session, he attempted a reconciliation between the two groups. In 1908, the government of the newly formed Eastern Bengal and Assam banned the Swadesh Bandhab Samiti 1908 and deported him to the United Provinces where he was interred at the Lucknow jail. After his release in 1910, he concentrated on sustaining the Brojomohun School and Brojomohun College. He had no other way than to accept government aid. In 1912, he was forced to hand over the management of the school and the college to two different trustee councils. In 1918 he attended the Bombay session of the Indian National Congress. He actively undertook relief work after the Barisal cyclone of 1919. In 1921 at the Kolkata session of the Indian National Congress, he lends the non-violent Non-Cooperation Movement. Mohandas Gandhi arrived in Barisal that year to show respect to the great leader. In 1922, he joined the striking workers of Assam Bengal Railway and Steamer Company in protest against the atrocities on the workers of tea plantations of Assam.
Works
Aswini Kumar Dutta is the founder of Brojomohan college named after his father.
Dutta has written a number of books in Bengali on religion, philosophy, and patriotism.
- Bhaktiyoga
- Karmayoga
- Prem
- Durgotsavtattva
- Atmapratistha
- Bharatgeeti
References
- ^ a b Khan, BR (2012). "Datta, Aswini Kumar". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
- ISBN 978-984-512-337-2.
- ISBN 81-86806-98-9.