 The family left Cambridge in 1873, living in St Leonards, Sussex from April to November 1873, and then returning to Calcutta.When Toru Dutt returned to Calcutta in 1873, at age seventeen, she found it challenging to re-integrate with a culture which now seemed like "an unhealthy place both morally and physically speaking" to her Europeanized and Christianized eyes.Her sister Aru died of consumption in 1872, aged twenty.