monthly salary of eighty rupees, by Mr. Marshall, on the recommendation of Vidyasagar. There was thus a great intimacy between the two. While employed in this office, Durga Charan Babu attended the Medical College lectures as an Out-student, and afterwards adopted the profession of an independent medical practitioner, in which he was eminently successful. He was a great help to Vidyasagar in his many acts of philanthropy.
Vidyasagar's second teacher was Raj Narayan Basu, with whom he read English for a short time. In this connection the two gentlemen formed an intimate friendship, which lasted to life. His next teacher was Babu Nil Madhav Mukharji, pupil of Babu Durga Charan Banarji, of whom mention has been made before. At last, he entertained the services of Babu Raj Narayan Gupta, then a student of the Hindu College, as his private English teacher on a stipend of fifteen rupees a month. To learn European Mathematics, he used to go to Ananda Krishna Basu, Amrita Lal Mitra, and Srinath Ghosh at the Sobhabazar Raj house.[1] He made some attempts to learn the subject, but it did
- ↑ Ananda Krishna Basu was a grandson of Raja Radha Kanta Dev Bahadur of Shobhabazar, being the son of his eldest daughter. Amrita Lal Mitra and Srinath Ghosh, both were his sons-in-law. All of them had studied in the Hindu College, and were well versed in the English literature. Vidyasagar had formed a great friendship with all of them.
