Diwan Tulsi Das

Location

Aberdeen
United Kingdom
57° 8' 50.9748" N, 2° 5' 43.4112" W
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Date of birth: 
01 Jan 1882
Precise DOB unknown: 
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Date of death: 
01 Jan 1951
Precise date of death unknown: 
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Location: 

Aberdeen

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About: 

Diwan Tulsi Das taught Hindustani at the University of Aberdeen. Das arrived in Britain in 1900 as a student in medicine. He eloped with the daughter of Dr Charles Maxwell Muller and settled with her in Aberdeen. He took up a number of professions, including taxi driving, and served in the army during the First World War, before being appointed Lecturer in Hindustani at the University of Aberdeen in the 1920s.