Rabindra Kumar Das Gupta was born on 11 July 1915. He was an indian scholar of Bengali and English literature and a social and cultural commentator. He was considered by his peers as one of the last scholars with equal command of English and Bengali languages.
Calcutta Municipal Corporation Upper Primary School. He passed his matriculation from the New Indian School, in what was then Calcutta, in 1931. He graduated from the Scottish Church College in 1935, where he studied English and Bengali literature from scholars like William Spence Urquhart and Birendrabinode Roy.
Later in life, he became the first Indian executive member of the International Comparative Literature Association and Canadian Review of Comparative Literature.
