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Indian

Toru Dutt

1856–1877

Toru Dutt (1856-1877) was born in Calcutta into a Bengali Christian family and educated in France and England. After returning to India in 1873 she taught herself Sanskrit, and before her death from consumption at twenty-one she published translations from the French and a French novel.

Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan, her English retellings of Sanskrit legends, appeared posthumously in 1882 with a memoir by Edmund Gosse; the 1885 edition added the miscellaneous poems given here, among them the two sonnets and Our Casuarina Tree.

Poems (16)

  1. Savitri
  2. Lakshman
  3. Jogadhya Uma
  4. The Royal Ascetic and the Hind
  5. The Legend of Dhruva
  6. Buttoo
  7. Sindhu
  8. Prehlad
  9. Sita
  10. Near Hastings
  11. France--1870
  12. The Tree of Life
  13. On the Fly Leaf of Erckmann-Chatrian's Novel entitled Madame Therese
  14. Sonnet--Baugmaree
  15. Sonnet--The Lotus
  16. Our Casuarina Tree

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