Ashwini Kumar Dutta

Ashwini Kumar Dutta was a Bengali educationist, philanthropist, social reformer and patriot. Dutta started his career as a teacher at the Krishnanagar Collegiate School in 1878. In the next year he joined Chatra Nandalal Institution at Serampore . 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. 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. He died on  7 November 1923 (aged 67).