Kshitimohan Sen (2 December 1880 – 12 March 1960) was

India India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the ...

n scholar, writer, a

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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 Bengalis, Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter ...

, 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 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, economi ...

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)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sen, Kshitimohan 1880 births 1960 deaths Visva-Bharati University faculty Bengali historians