WRITER

Toru Dutt

1856 - 1877

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Tarulatta Datta, popularly known as Toru Dutt (Bengali: তরু দত্ত; 4 March 1856 – 30 August 1877) was an Indian Bengali poet and translator from British India, who wrote in English and French. She is among the founding figures of Indo-Anglian literature, alongside Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809–1831), Manmohan Ghose (1869–1924), and Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949). She is known for her volumes of poetry in English, Sita, A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (1876) and Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (1882), and for a novel in French, Le Journal de Mademoiselle d'Arvers (1879). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Toru Dutt has received more than 738,931 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Toru Dutt is the 6,853rd most popular writer, the 1,103rd most popular biography from India and the 130th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 16

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  • 3.56

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Notable Works

Ancient Ballads And Legends Of Hindustan
2012
Life and letters of Toru Dutt
1921
Ancient ballads and legends of Hindustan
Indic poetry (English), Ballads, India
1882
Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields
2018
Life and Letters of Toru Dutt
2011
Toru Dutt
Collected works (single author, multi-form)
2005

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Toru Dutt ranks 6,853 out of 7,302. Before her are Javier Valdez Cárdenas, Dan Barker, Robert Pinsky, Laurie Lee, Roberto Orci, and Ingrid Klimke. After her are Ernest Cline, James T. Farrell, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Donna Williams, David X. Cohen, and Emanuel Pastreich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Toru Dutt ranks 131. Before her are Kenyon Cox, William Wallace Denslow, Tom Roberts, Andrew Watson, John Redmond, and Edward Bagnall Poulton.  Among people deceased in 1877, Toru Dutt ranks 69. Before her are Anthimus VI of Constantinople, Karl Ludwig Littrow, Facundo Machaín, Filippo Parlatore, Elizabeth F. Ellet, and Caroline Norton.

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In India

Among people born in India, Toru Dutt ranks 1,103 out of 1,861. Before her are Begum Samru (1746), Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (1920), Lara Dutta (1978), Rahul Dravid (1973), Parveen Sultana (1950), and Karnam Malleswari (1975). After her are Prakash Padukone (1955), Muzaffar Ali (1944), Sushma Seth (1936), Gulshan Grover (1955), Krishna Hutheesing (1907), and Shreya Ghoshal (1984).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Toru Dutt ranks 130. Before her are Rohinton Mistry (1952), Saroo Brierley (1981), Geetanjali Shree (1957), Ali Sardar Jafri (1913), Nayantara Sahgal (1927), and Bharati Mukherjee (1940). After her are Krishna Hutheesing (1907), Raja Rao (1908), Kiran Desai (1971), Shobhaa De (1948), Kamala Markandaya (1924), and Rupi Kaur (1992).

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