Durga Mohan was born in a well-known Baidya family at Telirbagh, Bikrampur, Dhaka in Bengal, now part of Munshiganj District of Bangladesh.

Bikrampur has a long historical and cultural trail since many centuries.

[1] Durga Mohan's father Kashiswar was a government pleader in the court of Barishal, presently in Bangladesh.

রামতনু লাহিড়ী ও তৎকালীন বঙ্গসমাজ (Ramtanu Lahiri O Tatkalin Banga Samaj) in Bengali, S. K .

Sengipta, Subodh Chandra and Bose, Anjali, (ed) সংসদ বাঙালি চরিত্রাভিধান (Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan) — a biographical dictionary in Bengali.