Babu Digambar Mitra, later known as
Raja Digambar Mitra, was born in 1817 at
Konnagar in the district of
Hooghly of present-day
West Bengal into a
Kulin Kayastha family. This wealthy and respectable family of
Konnagar was locally known as the
Mandir-Bati-Mitra family. Raja Digambar Mitra's grandfather
Ram Chandra Mitra was a cashier in a
Calcutta based mercantile firm. He had three sons namely
Shib Chandra Mitra,
Shambhu Chandra Mitra and
Raj Krishna Mitra,
Shib Chandra being the eldest among all of the three. All of them were employed in the same firm as their father.
Shib Chandra Mitra had two sons. His eldest son was
Raja Digambar Mitra. In the later years,
Shib Chandra bought a house in
Sovabazar,
North Calcutta.
Raja Digambar Mitra spend his childhood at
Calcutta. ==Life==