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Michael Madhusudan Dutt (Maikel Modhushudôn Dôtto ⓘ; 25 January 1824 – 29 June 1873) was a Bengali poet and playwright. He is considered one of the pioneers of Bengali literature.
Michael Madhusudan Dutt (Sagardanri, 1824 – Calcutta, 1873) è stato uno scrittore e poeta bengalese. Convertitosi dall' Induismo al Cristianesimo , iniziò a scrivere testi in inglese , poi iniziò a scrivere nella lingua madre.
17 ott 2017 · Learn about the colourful life and achievements of Michael Madhusudan Dutt, a Bengali poet who converted to Christianity, married a British woman, and studied law in England. See his watercolour portrait and explore his letters and works in the exhibition Connecting Stories at the Library of Birmingham.
20 ott 2021 · Learn about the life and works of Michael Madhusudan Dutt, a pioneer of modern Bengali literature who challenged traditional norms and wrote in blank verse. Discover how he became the first Bengali playwright and a critic of Hindu hierarchy.
- Early Life and The Origins of His Passion For Writing
- Converting to Christianity and The Ensuing Estrangement
- The Madras Newspapers and His First Books on Poetry
- His Two 'Unacceptable' Marriages and Moving Back to Kolkata
- Stepping in as The First Bengali Playwright and Experimenting with Blank Verse
- Accepting His Bengali Roots and The First Bengali Sonnets
- The Generosity of Ishwarchandra Vidysagar
- The Breakdown in Kolkata and His Last Works
Dutt was born on January 25, 1824 in a village named Sagardari in East Bengal's Jessore district, to a law practioner father, Rajnarayan Dutt, and mother, Jahnabi Devi. He initially studied at home and the village primary school before being admitted to a school in Kolkata. He grew up to enrol in Kolkata's Hindu College, where he studied Bengali, P...
Dutt converted to Christianity on February 9, 1843 while he was still at college partly in order to escape an arranged marriage set up by his father. After his conversion, he took up the first name of Michael. He had to leave Hindu College after that and took admission to Bishop's College in 1844, where he remained till 1847. Here, he also learned ...
In Madras, he continued his writing work and was associated with a few newspapers in journals. He edited the Hindu Chronicle, the Madras Circulator, the Eurasian (later the Eastern Guardian), and General Chronicle, and also worked as the assistant editor of the Madras Spectator from 1848 to 1856. Moreover, he published two English poetry books -- T...
While living in Madras, he did something even more unusual-he got married to a woman who was around three-quarters white in December 1855. While British men often married Indian females, the reverse was not so common. Rebecca Mactavys gave him four children. While Dutt was in Madras, his mother and father died one after the other. He moved to Kolka...
After moving to Kolkata, Dutt first worked at the police court as a clerk and later, as an interpreter, before starting to contribute his work to several journals.While translating a play by Ramnarayan Tarkaratna called Ratnavali (1858) into English, Dutt realised there was a huge dearth of good plays in Bengali. Soon after, he got associated with ...
Michael Madhusudan Dutt went to study law in England at Gray's Inn on June 9, 1862, but couldn't bear the weather and the racism. It was after he went to Versailles in France in 1863 along with Henrietta and their family that he finally got over the longing for England that had given rise to the style of his previous works and started to consider h...
Living in France, he was thrown into abject poverty and when the money from his late father's estate did not come regularly, he appealed to the great scholar, reformer and activist Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar who looked into ensuring that Dutt got his money. For his generosity, Dutt termed him 'dayar sagar' or 'the ocean of generosity'.
In 1856, Dutt returned to England from Verssailes and in 1866, became a barrister. Though he returned to Calcutta in 1867 with his second family, his extravagant lifestyle and drinking problems did not let him achieve success. He gave up law in three years because of a failing practice and joined as a High Court translator with a Rs 1000 monthly sa...
- India Today Web Desk
Michael Madhusudan Datta (born Jan. 25, 1824, Sāgardari, Bengal, India [now in Bangladesh]—died June 29, 1873, Calcutta, India) was a poet and dramatist, the first great poet of modern Bengali literature. Datta was a dynamic, erratic personality and an original genius of a high order.
21 feb 2024 · A new biography of Michael Madhusudan Dutt could have been a welcome publication in the 200th birth centenary year of the 19th century Bengali poet, but its conclusions about Dutt’s life and work...
