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{{Infobox person
| name = Ashwini Kumar Dutta
| image = Ashwini Kumar Dutta.jpg
| image_size = 200px
| caption = Ashwini Kumar Dutta
| native_name = অশ্বিনীকুমার দত্ত
| native_name_lang = bn
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1856|1|25|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Batajor]], [[Barisal district]], [[Bengal]], [[British India]]<ref name="banglapedia"/>
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1923|11|7|1856|1|25|df=yes}}
| death_place =
| nationality = Indian
| occupation = Educationist, philanthropist
| parents = Brojomohun Dutta
}}

'''Ashwini Kumar Dutta''' ({{lang-bn|অশ্বিনীকুমার দত্ত}}) (25 January 1856 – 7 November 1923) was a Bengali [[educationist]], philanthropist, social reformer and patriot.<ref name="banglapedia">{{cite book |last=Khan |first=BR |year=2012 |chapter=Datta, Aswini Kumar |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Datta,_Aswini_Kumar |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=History of Bangladesh, 1704–1971, Vol. 1 |last=Hussain |first=Aklam |year=1997 |publisher=Asiatic Society of Bangladesh |isbn=978-984-512-337-2 |page=559 }}</ref><ref name="samsad">{{cite book |title=Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan |editor1-last=Sengupta |editor1-first=Subodh Chandra |year=1988 |publisher=Sahitya Samsad |location=Kolkata |isbn=81-86806-98-9 |pages=38–39 }}</ref>

==Early life==
Ashwini Kumar Dutta was born in an affluent high class [[Bengali Hindu]] [[Kayastha]] [[Bharadwaja]] clan Dutta family in Batajore village in the district of [[Barisal]] in [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]], now in [[Bangladesh]] on 25 January 1856. They are a branch of Dutta family of Bally. His father [[Brajamohan Dutta]] was a Munsiff and a Deputy Collector who later became a District Judge. He passed the Entrance examination from [[Rangpur, Bangladesh|Rangpur]] in 1870 and completed his F.A. from [[Presidency University, Kolkata|Hindu College]]. He went to [[Allahabad]] to study law. After that, he came back to Bengal and completed his M.A. and B.L. from [[Krishnagar Government College]].

==Career==
Dutta started his career as a teacher at the [[Krishnagar Collegiate School|Krishnanagar Collegiate School]] in 1878. In the next year, he joined [[Chatra Nandalal Institution]] at [[Serampore]] and acted as the Headmaster of the school for seven months. In 1880, he was called to the Bar at [[Barisal]]. He built up a lucrative practice and expended his earning in philanthropic activities. At the suggestion of [[Ramesh Chandra Dutta]], the then Magistrate of Barisal, he established the Brojomohun School in the memory of his father, on 27 June 1884. Ashwini Kumar Dutta was elected as a delegate to the second session of [[Indian National Congress]], held at Kolkata in 1886. He took the initiative to establish the District Board in Barisal in 1887. He established the ''Bakarganj Hitaishini Sabha'' and a girls' school in the same year. That year he attended the third session of Indian National Congress in [[Chennai]] and spoke on the need for reforms in the Legislative Council. In 1888, he was appointed the Vice-Chairman of Barisal Municipality. In 1889, he established the [[Brojomohun College]] as a second-grade college. He served as the honorary lecturer of English at the college for 25 years. In 1897, he was appointed the Chairman of Barisal Municipality. In 1898, he was selected amongst the committee that was empowered to draw up a constitution of the Congress.

The Partition of Bengal drew him to the Swadeshi movement. He founded the '''Swadesh Bandhab Samiti''' to promote the consumption of indigenous products and boycott foreign goods. When the moderates and the extremists parted ways in the Surat session, he attempted a reconciliation between the two groups. In 1908, the government of the newly formed [[Eastern Bengal and Assam]] banned the Swadesh how Bandhab Samiti 1908 and deported him to the United Provinces where he was interred at the [[Lucknow]] jail. After his release in 1910, he concentrated on sustaining the Brojomohun School and Brojomohun College. He had no other way than to accept government aid. In 1912, he was forced to hand over the management of the school and the college to two different trustee councils. In 1918 he attended the [[Mumbai|Bombay]] session of the Indian National Congress. He actively undertook relief work after the Barisal cyclone of 1919. In 1921 at the [[Kolkata]] session of the Indian National Congress, he lends the non-violent Non-Cooperation Movement. Mohandas Gandhi arrived in Barisal that year to show respect to the great leader. In 1922, he joined the striking workers of Assam Bengal Railway and Steamer Company in protest against the atrocities on the workers of tea plantations of Assam.

==Works==
Aswini Kumar Dutta is the founder of Brojomohan college named after his father.

Dutta has written a number of books in [[Bengali language|Bengali]] on religion, philosophy, and patriotism.
* Bhaktiyoga
* Karmayoga
* Prem
* Durgotsavtattva
* Atmapratistha
* Bharatgeeti

==References==
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