Rosinka Chaudhuri is a scholar of literary criticism and history from Oxford, who specializes in nineteenth-century Bengal. She is a Fellow at the Centre for Social Sciences, Calcutta. Her articles have appeared in several journals and anthologies. The author examines works by Henry Derozio, Kasiprasad Ghosh, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, the Dutt family, and, in conclusion, the poems of Toru Dutt and Tagore.