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This is an unusual book from Bibek Debroy. It pieces together information, gleaned from various sources, to present an overview of the life and work of a man who translated virtually every Sanskrit epic that Debroy himself would attempt about a century later.
Manmatha Nath Dutt died in 1912 when he was just 47 years old, but in this relatively short period of time he wrote over 40 books, most of them translations of Hindu epics and religious texts from their original in Sanskrit. Every time Debroy would start on a new translation project, he would find that an earlier
