Pabitra Kumar Sen (15 May, 1906,
Comilla,
British India,- 15 September, 1997
Calcutta)
was the Khaira Professor of Agriculture,
Calcutta University, and founder of the College of Agriculture at Calcutta University in the 1950s.
Sen obtained his doctoral degree from the
Imperial College
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in
London, England in the 1920s and served as plant
physiologist
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and
horticulturist under the British India government during the 1930s in Sabore,
Bihar, India. He was invited by
Syama Prasad Mookerjee to start a college. He was highly influenced by
Gandhi and
Tagore and worked on village reconstruction in
Santiniketan during the 1940s. He founded Seva-Bharati, in the village of Kapgari,
Midnapur,
West Bengal in 1948 as an experiment of applying education to elevate the living conditions of the very poor. Sen started with Kapgari, one of the poorest villages in
India, and created schools ranging from nursery school up through research centers. Sen wrote a research article about several interesting developmental projects in the area in a paper entitled ''The village situation in India and reorganisation of its agricultural resources: A case study'',
published in Agricultural Administration, Elsevier.
References
External links
Seva-Bharati at propoor.org
Some of the contributions
* http://www.caluniv.ac.in/academic/department/Horticulture.html
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Indian horticulturists
Plant physiologists
1906 births
1997 deaths
University of Calcutta alumni
Academic staff of the University of Calcutta
20th-century Indian botanists