Kshitimohan Sen (2 December 1880 – 12 March 1960) was
India
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n scholar, writer, a
Sanskrit
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professor and an M.A. in Sanskrit from Queen's College, Benares. He was born in a family hailing from Sonarang in
Bengal Presidency
The Bengal Presidency, officially the Presidency of Fort William and later Bengal Province, was a subdivision of the British Empire in India. At the height of its territorial jurisdiction, it covered large parts of what is now South Asia and ...
(now in Bangladesh). He started his working life at the Department of Education, Chamba State. In 1908, at the call of
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...
, 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
Visva-Bharati () is a public central university and an Institution of National Importance located in Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India. It was founded by Rabindranath Tagore who called it ''Visva-Bharati'', which means the communion of the ...
(1953–1954).
He is the maternal grandfather of
Amartya Sen
Amartya Kumar Sen (; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, econom ...
.
Books
* 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
External links
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1880 births
1960 deaths
Visva-Bharati University faculty
Bengali historians