Harinath De

Harinath De , was an Indian historian, scholar and a polyglot, who later became the first Indian librarian of the National Library of India from 1907 to 1911. In a life span of thirty four years, he learnedlanguages.

De was born in Ariadaha of Kamarhati near Kolkata. His father Roy Bhadur Bhutnath De was a government official in Raipur, Central Provinces , where the family of young Narendranath Dutta also stayed in the same building, briefly from 1877 to 1879.

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