Career
Dasarathi Tah did not have the benefit of any formal education and was a completely self-educated person. During the Quit India Movement he was involved in the occupation of Jamalpur police station. He was sent to jail several times for his political activities.
While he contested on a Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party ticket in 1951, he fought the other elections on a Praja Socialist Party ticket.
Dasarathi Tah was a pioneering journalist. He edited and published the weekly Damodar before independence and then started the daily Damodar after independence.
Both were the earliest in their category in Bardhaman district.