Personal Life
His family life was not happy. Relations with both his wife and his sons were strained. In a sense he died a lonely man, leaving a substantial amount for the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science. A few days after his death in 1886 at Bali, a meeting was held in Calcutta where tall promises were made on how to immortalize his memory. But absolutely nothing emerged and eventually he became forgotten.
The renowned Bengali poet Satyendranath Dutta was his grandson.
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