Kshitimohan Sen
Kshitimohan Sen (2 December 1880 – 12 March 1960) was an Indian scholar, writer, a Sanskrit professor and an M.A. in Sanskrit from Queen's College, Benares. He was born in a Baidya family hailing from Sonarang in Bengal Presidency (now in Bangladesh). He started his working life at the Department of Education, Chamba State.
Kshitimohan Sen
The Modern Review. January 1938 · Public domain
- Name
- Kshitimohan Sen
- Born
- 30 November 1880
- Birthplace
- Dhaka Bikrampur Now Munshiganj East Bengal (now Bangladesh), British India
- Died
- 12 March 1960
- Place of death
- Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India
- Occupation
- Professor, writer
- Nationality
- India · British Raj · Dominion of India
- Honours
- Deshikottam
- Languages
- Bangla · English · Sanskrit
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Kshitimohan Sen naquit le 2 décembre 1880. Kshitimohan Sen mourut le 12 mars 1960.
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In 1908, at the call of Rabindranath Tagore, he joined Brahmacharyashram. Later he performed responsibility of Adhyaksha of Vidyabhaban. He was the first Deshikottam (1952) of Vishwa Bharati. He was an acting Upacharyas of Visva-Bharati University (1953–1954). He is the maternal grandfather of Amartya Sen. Amartya Sen has written at length about Kshitimohan Sen and the latter's relation with Rabindranath Tagore in his memoir Home in the World.
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• Name — Kshitimohan Sen • Born — 30 November 1880 • Birthplace — Dhaka Bikrampur Now Munshiganj East Bengal (now Bangladesh), British India • Died — 12 March 1960 • Place of death — Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India • Occupation — Professor, writer
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• Kabir (1910–11) • Bharatiya Madhyayuger Sadhanar Dhara (1930) • Dadu (1935) • Bharater Sangskrti (1943) • Banglar Sadhana (1945) • Yuga Guru Rammohan (1945) • Jatibhed (1946) • Banglar Baul (1947) • Hindu Sangskrtir Svarup (1947) • Bharater Hindu-Mussalman Yukta Sadhana (1949) • Prachin Bharate Nari (1950) • Chinmay Banga (1957) • Hinduism (1961) • Sadhak O Sadhana (2003)
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- 1.Visva-Bharati University. Kshitimohan Sen (1880-1960).
- 2.University of the Witwatersrand. Honorary Degree Citation: Amartya Sen.
- 3.Sen, Amartya. Home in the world: a memoir. Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company. 2022. 978-1-324-09161-5.
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