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BABU RAMTANU LAHIRI

It would be difficult for pupils to inscribe to any teacher a noble tribute than this.

During the few years that succeeded his leaving the Uttarpara school, Ramtanu held several different appointments. Transferred to the Baraset school in 1857, he remained there about eighteen months, exercising the same personal influence over his pupils as elsewhere, and from its vicinity to Calcutta being able to keep in close touch with his friends there. In 1858 he was transferred again to Krishnagar, but after only a few months there he was appointed to the English school at Rassapagla near Calcutta, established by Government especially for the education of Tippoo Sultan's descendants. Though