The great poet Michael Madhusudan Dutta (25 January 1824 - 29 June 183) was one of the greatest Bengali poets and playwrights and comedians of the nineteenth century. [2] He is also known as the first rebellious poet of modern Bengali literature. Born into an aristocratic Kayastha dynasty in the Jessore district of British India, Madhusudan converted to Christianity in his youth and adopted the name Michael Madhusudan, and with an irresistible fascination with Western literature, concentrated o