Legacy and Honours
Dutt was largely ignored for 15 years after his death. The belated tribute was a tomb erected at his gravesite.
His epitaph, a verse of his own, reads:
| “ | Stop a while, traveller! Should Mother Bengal claim thee for her son. |
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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee described Dutt by the following:
| “ | ...to Homer and Milton, as well as to Valmiki, he is largely indebted, and his poem is on the whole the most valuable work in modern Bengali literature. | ” |
Tagore wrote:
| “ | The Epic Meghnad-Badh is really a rare treasure in Bengali literature. Through his writings, the richness of Bengali literature has been proclaimed to the wide world. | ” |
and
| “ | It was a momentous day for Bengali literature to proclaim the message of the universal muse and not exclusively its own parochial note. The genius of Bengal secured a place in the wide world overpassing the length and breadth of Bengal. And Bengali poetry reached the highest status. | ” |
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar said:
| “ | Meghnad Badh is a supreme poem. | ” |
In the words of Sri Aurobindo:
| “ | All the stormiest passions of man's soul he expressed in gigantic language. | ” |
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