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C '8? 3 RAMESH CHANDRA DATTA. Mr. Ramesh Chandra Dalta belongs to the well-known Datta family of Rambagan, Calcutta, the family that has produced Miss Taru Datta and other persons of high literary abilities. Mr. Datta's career has bsen such a brilliant one and his genuis is so versatile and many-sided, that it is not possible to describe him in brief. He was born in 1848 and was educated at the Hare School and the Presidency College. He then proceeded to England, attended the University College, London, and came out as third in order of merit at the open Competitive Civil Service Examination of 1S69. He was also enrolled as a Barrister-at-Law. Entering the Civil Service in 1871, he rose gradually to a Divisional Commis- sionership, the highest office that was up to this time conferred on a rmtive of India. Mr. Datta '_ retired from Government service in 1897. In ?8oa he had been made a C I. E*for his ability and success as an administrator and his researches in Indian history. After his retirement Mr. Datta devoted himself to literature with greater energy than before. He has since lived several years in England, lecturing on Indian history at the University College, Ixmdon, writing books on India, and pressing the claims of his country on the attention of English politicians. In 1900 Mr. Datta came out as the President of the National Congress held at I.urknow. In 1904 the enlightened Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda showed his appreciation of Mr. Datta's abilities as an administrator by apjKiinting him his minister of finance. The wisdom of this appointment has been amply proved by the prosperity of the Baroda state that has followed it. Mr. Datta's literary abilities are of the most" varied character. In his early youth he wrote an interesting little book in English on