Ashwini Kumar Dutta

Ashwini Kumar Dutta  ( died on 7 November 1923) was a Bengali educationist, philanthropist, social reformer and patriot. Ashwini Kumar Dutta was born in an affluent high class Bengali Hindu Kayastha Bharadwaja clan Dutta family in Patuakhali in the district of Barisal in  Bangladesh on 25 January 1856.His father Brojo Mohun Dutta was a Munsiff and a Deputy Collector who later became a District Judge.

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 and acted as the Headmaster of the school for seven months.

In 1880, he was called to the Bar at Barisal. At the suggestion of Ramesh Chandra Dutta, the then Magistrate of Barisal, he established the Brojomohun School in the memory of his father. Ashwini Kumar Dutta was elected as a delegate to the second session of Indian National Congress, held at Kolkata in 1886.