Romesh Chunder Dutt
1848–1909
Biography
Romesh Chunder Dutt (1848–1909) was an Indian civil servant, economic historian and translator. He spent much of his career in the Indian Civil Service, and he became one of the most influential early voices of economic nationalism, arguing that British economic policy was leaving India poorer and its farmers worse off. He presided over the Indian National Congress in 1899.
His best-known scholarly work is The Economic History of India, published in two volumes, one covering the early British period and the other the Victorian age. It is still widely cited. He also translated the Ramayana and the Mahabharata into English, making the two great epics available to readers who did not know Sanskrit.
He also wrote fiction in Bengali. At the request of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, he turned to the Bengali novel, and his historical romance Madhabikankan, set in the Bengal of Akbar's reign, was published in 1877. It is the book on this site credited to him, and it stands among the early historical novels in Bengali.
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Books
মাধবীকঙ্কণ
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A historical romance set in the Bengal of Akbar's reign, when the Mughals were still subduing the Afghan chiefs of the delta. It opens on a summer evening on the bank of the Bhagirathi, where two boys and a girl are playing on the sand. It is an early Bengali novel by Romesh…
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