Background
His father, Sarada Kumar Dutta Gupta, owned substantial tracts of land in Tarpasha-Jainshar village in Bikrampur subdivision in Dacca district in present day Bangladesh, but worked in Calcutta. Tarpasha is the area of the village where the jetty was located in his time. He had three elder brothers, Ahwini Kumar, Surendra Kumar and Karuna Kumar Dutta Gupta. Surendra Kumar remained in his ancestral village to manage his father's zamindari, while all the other brothers migrated to Calcutta towards the end of the nineteenth century. Karuna Kumar became one of the earlier graduates of Bengal Engineering College under the University of Calcutta. His family retained their village lands and home well until 1947. Like many other caste Hindu families, his family also lost much of their assets at the time of the partition, but he and his brothers were not significantly affected by the partition since they had moved to Calcutta at the beginning of the twentieth century. Even after independence some family members, who lived for several years in a joint family, continued to live in the family's ancestral village home and orchard in Amtala, West Bengal, which is a few miles south of Calcutta, along the river Hooghly.
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