Sarat Datta Gupta - Family

Family

His descedants also rose to eminence in their respective professions. His eldest brother, Ashwini Kumar Dutta Gupta's grandson, Dilip Gupta, was a well known cameraman, who worked with the film director, Bimal Roy, and shot films such as Madhumati and Chaya. His second eldest brother, Surendranath Dutta Gupta's son-in-law, Birendrantha Sen, was a senior railway officer. Another son-in-law was Niranjan Sen, who became a Magistrate in Coochbehar under the Maharajas of Coochbehar before becoming a Deputy Magistrate in West Bengal after independence. Another son-in-law was Jogesh Chandra Dasgupta, an eminent lawyer of Howrah, who became the Secretary of the Howrah Municipality. He was an institution builder and founded Howrah Girl's High School as well as the Tulsiram Lakshmidevi Jaiswal Hospital in Liluah. Dasgupta's son was Shanti Kumar Dasgupta, who was a two terms' MLA and Higher Education Minister in the state cabinet between 1972-7. He later became the High Court appointed Administrator of Surendranath College in Calcutta. Surendranath's son was Lt. Col. Sukumar Dutta Gupta of the Indian Medical Service. His third eldest brother, Karuna Datta Gupta's, son-in-law was Biren Sen, a senior Indian Audit and Accounts Service officer of the United Provinces. Sen's only son was Amitabha Sen, the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the South Eastern Railways and a Major in the Indian army. Sen's eldest son-in-law was Prof. Ajit Dasgupta, a well known economist who worked at the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta. One of Sen's daughter is Gayatri Ray, who ran the Indira Gandhi Trust housing the Indira Gandhi Museum in Delhi for some years. Her husband was Ashok Ray, IFS, who became India's High Commissioner to Dhaka. Another son-in-law is Debabrata Dutta, IAS, who worked for the World Bank. Dutta Gupta's eldest daughter was married to Kumud Sen, IAAS, who became an Accountant General of India. His second daughter was Mira Datta Gupta, who was the MLA from the Bhowanipore constituency from 1951–57 and the vice principal of Surendranath College. His only son, Barindra Kumar Datta Gupta, who studied at Durham University, was the head of a paints factory owned by the Maharajas of Nawanagar and later became the General Manager of Torrence and Sons, a British paints company, in India. His youngest son-in-law, Prabhat Sen, a Barrister, was a collateral descendant of Maharshi Keshav Chandra Sen, the eminent Brahmo reformer.