Entrance examination
Ashwini Kumar Dutta was born in an affluent high class Bengali Hindu Kayastha Bharadwaja clan Dutta family in Batajore village in the district of Barisal in Bengal, now in Bangladesh on 25 January 1856. They are a branch of Dutta family of Bally. His father Brajamohan Dutta was a Munsiff and a Deputy Collector who later became a District Judge. He passed the Entrance examination from Rangpur in 1870 and completed his F.A. from Hindu College. He went to Allahabad to study law. After that, he came back to Bengal and completed his M.A. and B.L. from Krishnagar Government College.