Misplaced Pages

Kshitimohan Sen

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Indian scholar

Kshitimohan Sen
Photo of Kshitimohan Sen with Rabindranath TagoreKshitimohan Sen with Rabindranath Tagore
Born(1880-11-30)30 November 1880
Dhaka Bikrampur Now Munshiganj East Bengal (now Bangladesh), British India
Died12 March 1960(1960-03-12) (aged 79)
Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India
NationalityIndian
Occupation(s)Professor, writer

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 Brahmin family hailing from Sonarang in Bengal Presidency (now in Bangladesh). He started his working life at the Department of Education, Chamba State. 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.

Books

This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (October 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
  • 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)

References

  1. "Kshitimohan Sen (1880-1960)". Visva-Bharati University. Archived from the original on 1 July 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
  2. "Honorary Degree Citation: Amartya Sen". University of the Witwatersrand. Archived from the original on 13 August 2012. Retrieved 18 October 2012.

External links

Sen family
1st generation
2nd generation
3rd generation
4th generation
Related families
Categories: