 Born of Durgadas Chaudhuri, who belongs to the famous zamindar family of Haripur village in Pabna (now in Bangladesh) and his wife, Sukumari Debi, the second sister of Rabindranath Tagore, Chaudhuri spent his first five years in Haripur and the following ten at Krishnanagar in Nadia (now in West Bengal).His father's tours of duty took him to many places in Bihar and Bengal Presidency.Chaudhuri recalls of his father, an aristocrat and a high-ranking official of the British Government, "My father, a student of Hindu College (now Presidency College, Kolkata), was an uncompromising atheist.