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Toru Dutt was an Indian Bengali translator, who was also a linguist and an exemplary poet. Toru Dutt published the translations of French poetry in Bengal Magazine Toru Dutt is one of those prominent figures who contributed in founding Indo-Anglian literature. On 30 August , Toru Dutt died at the age of 21 becauses of Tuberculosis. Toru Dutt was six years old when, in , her father converted to Christianity.

Toru Dutt, along with her siblings, were first provided education at home by private English tutors. In , Toru Dutt, along with her family, moved to France, where Toru Dutt studied history, arts, and language. Before moving to England, they stayed in Paris and Italy. Calcutta , Bengal , British India. Early life and education [ edit ].

Life in Europe [ edit ]. A poem for, and about France [ edit ]. Writing [ edit ]. Published works [ edit ]. Contributions to Periodicals [ edit ]. Life in India [ edit ]. Documentary [ edit ]. Family [ edit ]. References [ edit ]. London: William Heinemann, pp. Sketches of Some Distinguished Indian Women. The Oxford Companion to English Literature 7 ed.

Oxford UP. Victorian Literature and Culture. ISSN S2CID Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online ed. Oxford: Oxford sexy Press. ISBN Toru improved in French and English also. In Cambridge Toru and Aru attended lectures for women. In , the Dutt family returned to Calcutta after four years. Now the sisters divided their time between the city-house at Rambagan and the garden-house at Baugmaree.

But Aru suffered from consumption on July 23, , at the early age of twenty. Aru's death was the second severe blow that upset the family. It was for the second time that she saw death so closely. It enabled her to deal with the theme of death in Savitri. In , Toru started studying Sanskrit. She wrote to a friend in a letter on May 13, "Our Sanskrit is going but slowly.

On Aug 26, , she wrote to the same friend: "I am translating some small Sanskrit pieces". Her study of Sanskrit inspired her to compose a book in Sanskrit. But her life proved too short to turn her dream into reality. Toru had read the Vishnu Purana and the Bhagavad Gita also. She was ill but by , her health decayed never to recover.

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On August 30, , Toru died leaving her parents all alone. Toru was buried at the C. Cemetery in Calcutta, in a corner near her loved brother and sister whom she had remembered in Our Casuarina Tree. In June and July , came out two translations in prose by Toru Dutt. At first her collection was not a hit, because it lacked a preface, was printed on low-quality paper, and the publisher was little known.

However, in the poetry collection gained publicity after it was favorably reviewed in The Examiner by Edmund Gosse. Sadly, Toru Dutt did not live to see her success. She, like her siblings, died from consumption in , at the age of Her book of poetry named Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan , a collection of translations and adaptations from Sanskrit literature, was published posthumously in Edmund Gosse wrote the introductory memoir for the collection.

He said, describing Toru, "She brought with her from Europe a store of knowledge that would have sufficed to make an English or French girl seem learned, but which in her case was simply miraculous. In the early twentieth century, author Harihar Das came across "Buttoo. After failing to discover much information about her, he decided to write a Toru Dutt biography himself.