Early Life and Education
He was the son of the Ramkrishna Dutta Chaudhuri and Anandamayee Debi. His father was the zamindar of Birasri village in Karimganj sub-division of Sylhet district, in eastern Bengal (present day Bangladesh).
Always a brilliant student, he completed his schooling at Minor School which had been set up by his father's elder brother Radhakrishna Dutta Chaudhuri. He completed his Entrance (School Leaving) examination at Government College, Sylhet where he stood 2nd in 1898. He stood 1st in the F.A. examination (prior to Graduate studies) from Presidency College, Calcutta in 1901 and was awarded the Scindia Gold Medal. He went on a Scholarship from the Sylhet Union to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK and then took the Indian Civil service (ICS) examination. He is the first Indian to have stood first in the ICS examination. He also passed the Bar examination with a First Class, and was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn. He removed Chaudhuri from his surname while at Cambridge.
He repaid the scholarship money to Sylhet Union after working for a few years, so that the Union could help another student from the same district with that money. In 1905, he returned to India and started work as an ICS officer.
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