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Gurusaday Dutt

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{{short description|Indian writer, folk literature researcher and civil servant}}
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| name = Gurusaday Dutt
| image = Gurusaday Dutt photo.png
| image_size = 200px
| caption = Gurusaday Dutt
| birth_date = {{birth-date|10 May 1882}}
| birth_place = Birasri, [[Karimganj district|Karimganj]], [[Assam Province]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{d-da|25 June 1941|10 May 1882}}
| death_place = [[Calcutta]], India
| occupation = Civilian, folklorist
| spouse = [[Saroj Nalini Dutt]] (nee Dé)<ref name="socialthoughtofrabindranathtagore:ahistoricalanalysis">[http://www.books.google.com/books?id=0HrBJJBFutsC&pg=PA138&lpg=PA138&dq=%22brajendranath+de%22&source=web&ots=6hzMYqYpVY&sig=j0LN8UVyO09xXv-DDGe4tWswGIo/ Tapati Das Gupta, Social Thought of Rabindranath Tagore: A Historical Analysis, (Calcutta, 1993), p. 138]</ref>
| children = 1
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'''Gurusaday Dutt''' ({{lang-bn|'''গুরুসদয় দত্ত'''}}) (1882–1941) ({{lang-bn|১২৮৭-১৩৪৮}})<ref name="Dasgupta1993">{{cite book|author=Tapati Dasgupta|title=Social Thought of Rabindranath Tagore: A Historical Analysis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0HrBJJBFutsC&pg=PA138|access-date=11 July 2012|date=1 January 1993|publisher=Abhinav Publications|isbn=978-81-7017-302-1|pages=138–}}</ref> was a civil servant, folklorist, and writer. He was the founder of the [[Bratachari movement|''Bratachari'' Movement]] in the 1930s.

==Early life and education==
Dutt, born to Ramkrishna Dutta Chaudhuri and Anandamayee Debi, was a member of the ''zamindari'' family of Birasri (বীরশ্রি) village in Karimganj (করিমগঞ্জ) sub-division of [[Sylhet District|Sylhet]] district, in eastern Bengal (present day [[Bangladesh]]). Members of his family were followers of the Vaishnavite sect.

After completing his Entrance examination at Government College, Sylhet, in 1898, Dutt completed his F.A. examination from Presidency College, Calcutta in 1901. He obtained a scholarship raised by the Sylhet Union to study in Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He passed the Open Competitive Service examination in 1905. Subsequently, he was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn.

He was married to [[Saroj Nalini Dutt]] and they had one son.

==Career==
He was the district magistrate of Mymensingh, director of Industries,
chief whip in the Bengal Legislative Council, member of the Council of States and of the [[Central Legislative Assembly]] (1930-1933) and secretary, Local Self Government and Public Health, Government of Bengal,

==Contributions to social work==
Dutt's social work for the development of villages and improvement of agriculture led to the foundation of the first Rural Reconstruction Movement in India in Birbhum in 1918, extending the movement to several districts, such as Bankura, Howrah and Mymensingh. In 1922, he started a society for co-operative irrigation in Bankura, which he later extended to Mymensingh and Birbhum. In 1924, he headed an Indian delegation to a meeting of the Agricultural Institute in Rome. In December, 1929, he started ''Gramer Daak'' ('গ্রামের ডাক')that dealt with agrarian and rural matters.

His contribution to the empowerment of mostly rural women was evident in the establishment of the Saroj Nalini Dutt Memorial Association, as a Central Training Institute for training women, deprived of formal education, in the crafts and basic education in February, 1925. In October 1925, he started a monthly magazine entitled, ''Bangalakshmi'' ('বঙ্গলক্ষী') to give voice to village women.

Dutt contributed immensely to the development of rural dance forms. In Mymensingh he started a Folk Dance Revival Society, which revived the secular ''Jaari'' ('জারি') dance. In 1930, he discovered the ''Raibeshe'' ('রায়বেশে') folk dance, a martial dance of un-divided Bengal, in Birbhum. Subsequently, he also revived the Kaathi (কাঠি), Dhamail (ধামায়েল), Baul (বাউল), Jhumur (ঝুমুর), Brata (ব্রত) and Dhali (ঢালি) dances from different parts of undivided Bengal. In 1931, after meeting Cecil Sharp, who had revived Morris dancing in England, he set up the Bangiya Palli Sampad Raksha Samiti (বঙ্গিয় পল্লি রক্ষা সমিতি) (Cultural Heritage Protection Society of Bengal).

All these efforts culminated in the founding of the Bratachari movement in 1932. In 1934, the Bangiya Palli Sampad Raksha Samiti was renamed as The Bengal Bratachari Society. In 1936, he started ''Banglar Shakti'' ('বাংলার শক্তি'), a journal on behalf of the Bengal Bratachari Society.

==Contributions to art and culture==
Gurusaday Dutt was mostly known for his interest and contributions to Bengal's folk art, folk dance and folk music. He spent a lifetime collecting and studying art objects and handiwork from the remotest corners of undivided rural Bengal collecting items of folk art such as Kalighat paintings, ''patuas'' ('পটুয়া') scrolls, embroidered ''kanthas'' ('কাঁথা'), terracotta panels, stone sculptures, wooden carvings, dolls and toys, moulds used for making patterns on sweets or mango-paste etc. Gurusaday Dutt also wrote extensively on folk culture. Rabindranath Tagore and C.F. Andrews wrote in the foreword of the biography of his wife, Saroj Nalini Dutt, which he wrote. Gurusaday Dutt also wrote a good deal about the Bratachari movement.

==Controversies==
In 1928, at Howrah, in connection with the Bamangachi Firing case, he condemned the firing on a crowd of protesters by the police led by a British officer. The matter was raised in the House of Lords in London and as a punitive measure he was transferred to Mymensingh. In Mymensingh he refused to take against those who were protesting against the government's Salt Act, which led to his transfer to Birbhum.

==Organisations founded==
*Mymensingh Folk Dance and Folk Music Society (1929)
*Pallisampad Raksha Samiti (পল্লি রক্ষা সমিতি);(1931)
*Bratachari Loknritya Samiti (ব্রতচারি লোক নৃত্য সমিতি) (1932)
*South India Bratachari Society (1932)
*Sarbabharatiya Bratachari Society (সর্ব ভারতীয় ব্রতচারি সোসাইটি)
*Bratacharigram (ব্রতচারি গ্রাম) (1941)
*Bratachari Janashiksha Pratishthan (ব্রতচারি জনশিক্ষা প্রতিষ্ঠান) (1941)

==Publications==
*''Bhajar Banshi'' (ভজার বাঁশি) (1922)
*''Palli Sangskar'' (পল্লী সংস্কার) (1925)
*''Village Reconstruction'' (1925)
*''Agricultural Organisation and Rural Reconstruction in Bengal'' (1919)
*''Ganer Saji'' (গানের সাজি) (1932)
*''Indian Folk Dance and Folklore Movement'' (1933)
*''Bratachari Synthesis'' (in Bengali) (1937)
*''Patuya Sangit'' (পটুয়া সঙ্গীত) (1939)
*''Bratacharir Marmakatha'' (ব্রতচারি মর্মকথা) (1940)
*''A Woman of India'' (1941)
*''Bratachari: Its Aim and Meaning'' (1942)
*''The Folk Dances of Bengal'' (1954)
*''Shrihatter Lokasangit'' (শ্রীহট্টের লোকসঙ্গীত) (1966)
*''Folk Arts and Crafts of Bengal'' (1990)<ref name="publications">[http://www.seagullindia.com/books/default.asp/ Publications of G.S.Dutt]</ref>
*''Art of Kantha'' (1995)
*''Banglar Lokashilpa o Lokanritya'' (বাংলার লোকশিল্প ও লোকনৃত্য) (Calcutta: Chatim Books, 2008)
*''Goraey Golod'' (গোরায় গলত)
*''Gramer Kaajer ka kha Ga'' (গ্রামের কাজের ক, খ, গ) (in Bengali)
*''Saroj Nalini''
*''Palli Sanskar O Sangathan'' (পল্লী সংস্কার ও সংগঠন)
*''Paaglamir Puthi'' (পাগলামির পুঁথি)
*''Purir Mahathwa'' (পুরির মাহাত্ম্য)
*''Banglar Samrik Krira'' (in Bengali)
*''Chaander Buri'' (চাঁদের বুড়ি) (in Bengali)
*''Bratachari Shakhaa'' (ব্রতচারি শাখা)
*''Bratachari Parichoy'' (ব্রতচারি পরিচয়)
*''Banglar Bir Jodha Raebeshe'' (বাংলার বীর যদ্ধা রায়বেশে)

==Legacy==
A road in Calcutta, a gold medal and a cash prize, awarded to the first ranked student of geography of Calcutta University and a scholarship given by the Sylhet Union (Srihatta Sammilani) (শ্রীহট্ট সম্মিলনী) are named after him. His portrait hangs on a wall of [[Mahajati Sadan]], Calcutta.

== See also ==
*[[Bratachari movement]]
*[[Saroj Nalini Dutt]]
*[[Gurusaday Museum]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.gurusadaymuseum.org/ Official Website of Gurusaday Museum]
*[http://rajsaday.com/?p=86/ Profile of Gurusaday Dutt at Lives Less Forgotten]

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Bengal Nagpur Railway

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[[File:BNR Office, Garden Reach.jpg|thumb|250 px|Bengal Nagpur Railway (BNR) Headquarters, now South Eastern Railway (SER) headquarters, [[Garden Reach]], [[Kolkata]]]]
[[File:Beyer Garratt 6594.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A [[Beyer, Peacock and Company|Beyer]] [[Garratt]] 6594 Engine of Bengal Nagpur Railway at the [[National Rail Museum, New Delhi|National Rail Museum]]]]
[[File:BNR House.jpg|thumb|250 px|BNR House, residence of the GM of SER]]
[[File:Certificate of Farewell Mr. Bhagabati Charan Ghosh.jpg|alt=Certificate of Farewell to Mr. Bhagabati Charan Ghosh from The Officers and Staff of the Agent's Office & of the Employee's Urban Bank at his farewell ceremony on 23 December 1920|thumb|Certificate of Farewell to Mr. Bhagabati Charan Ghosh from The Officers and Staff of the Agent's Office & of the Employee's Urban Bank at his farewell ceremony on 23 December 1920]]
The '''Bengal Nagpur Railway''' was one of the companies which pioneered development of the railways in eastern and central India. It was succeeded first by [[Eastern Railway Zone|Eastern Railway]] and subsequently by [[South Eastern Railway Zone|South Eastern Railway]].

==History==
The opening of the [[Mumbai]]–[[Thane]] line in 1853 marked the beginning of railways in India. Extension of the railways was set off throughout the country. On the north-eastern side of Mumbai, the [[Great Indian Peninsular Railway]] line was extended up to [[Bhusawal]] and then split in two. While one track led to [[Nagpur]], the other to [[Jabalpur]] to connect with the [[East Indian Railway Company|East Indian Railway]] line from Allahabad to Jabalpur, thereby connecting Mumbai and Kolkata. The great famine of 1878 provided an opportunity for the construction of 150 km long meter gauge link called the Nagpur Chhattisgarh Railway in 1882 connecting Nagpur with [[Rajnandgaon]].<ref name=number1>{{cite web| url = http://railwaysofraj.blogspot.in/2011/08/number-1-down-mail.html |title = Number 1 Down Mail| publisher= Railways of the Raj| access-date = 2012-02-19 }}</ref>

The Bengal Nagpur Railway was formed in 1887 for the purpose of upgrading the Nagpur Chhattisgarh Line and then extending it via Bilaspur to Asansol, in order to develop a shorter Howrah-Mumbai route than the one via Allahabad.<ref name=number1/> The [[Nagpur Chhattisgarh Railway]] was owned by the provincial government.<ref name=ncr>{{cite web| url =http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Nagpur_Chhattisgarh_Railway |title = Nagpur Chhattisgarh Railway | publisher=fibis| access-date = 2012-02-19 }}</ref> Bengal Nagpur Railway was formed in 1887.<ref name=fibis>{{cite web| url = http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Bengal-Nagpur_Railway|title = Bengal-Nagpur Railway| publisher=fibis| access-date = 2012-02-19 }}</ref> The Nagpur Chhattisgarh Railway was purchased from Great Indian Peninsula Railway by Bengal Nagpur Railway in 1888, and was converted to broad gauge.<ref name=ncr/> The Bengal Nagpur Railway main line from Nagpur to Asansol was opened for goods traffic on 1 February 1891.<ref name=major>{{cite web|url=http://www.ser.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1 |title=Major Events in the Formation of S.E. Railway |publisher=South Eastern Railway |access-date=2012-02-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130401151628/http://www.ser.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0%2C1 |archive-date=2013-04-01 }}</ref> It was only after Kharagpur was linked from the west and the south that it was connected to Howrah in 1900.<ref name=timeline>{{cite web| url = http://irse.bravehost.com/IRHTML.htm| title = Indian Railway History timeline| last = R.P.Saxena| access-date = 2012-02-19| archive-url = https://archive.is/20120714085533/http://irse.bravehost.com/IRHTML.htm| archive-date = 14 July 2012| url-status = dead| df = dmy-all}}</ref>

Mr. Bhagabati Charan Ghosh was the first Indian to occupy the post of a Personal Assistant to the agent of B.N. Railway and he was the founder and first chairman for eleven and half years(1909-1920) of the B.N. Railway Employee's Urban Bank since its inception.<ref>Certificate of Farewell to Mr. Bhagabati Charan Ghosh from The Officers and Staff of the Agent's Office & of the Employee's Urban Bank at his farewell ceremony on 23rd December, 1920</ref> The name of this organisation is being changed time to time with the development of working zones of Indian Railway. Its present name is SE, SEC & E-CO RLY'S EMPLOYEES' CO-OPERATIVE CREDIT SOCIETY LTD. Registered Office is situated at 93,CIRCULAR GARDEN REACH ROAD, KOLKATA-700043, WEST BENGAL, INDIA. He was the father of world renowned great yogi [[Paramahansa Yogananda|SRI SRI PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA.]]<ref>{{Cite book|title=Autobiography of a Yogi, 1997 Anniversary Edition. Self-Realization Fellowship (Founded by Yogananda)|publisher=yogananda.org}}</ref>

Although Bengal Nagpur Railway was not a part of original design to connect major points in the subcontinent with a network of railways, it was instrumental in developing a shorter, and hence more popular, route from Howrah to Mumbai and the trunk route from Howrah to Chennai.<ref name=number1/><ref name=major/><ref name=timeline/>

The civil engineer Lt Col [[Arthur John Barry]] was the Executive Engineer in charge of the construction of the bridge over the [[Damodar River|Damuda River]] and the work of the Damuda district of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway, of which he was afterwards Superintending Engineer of the Bengal section.<ref>Frederick Arthur Crisp ''Visitation of England and Wales'', Volume 14, London (1906)</ref>

The management of the Bengal Nagpur Railway was taken over by the Government of India in 1944.<ref name=major/>[[Eastern Railway zone|Eastern Railway]] was formed on 14 April 1952 with the portion of [[East Indian Railway Company]] east of [[Mughalsarai]] and the Bengal Nagpur Railway.<ref name=zones>{{cite web| url = http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-geog.html#newzone |title = Geography – Railway Zones| publisher= IRFCA| access-date = 2012-11-21 }}</ref> In 1955, [[South Eastern Railway zone|South Eastern Railway]] was carved out of Eastern Railway. It comprised lines mostly operated by BNR earlier.<ref name=zones/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-history4.html |title = IR History: Part - IV (1947 - 1970)| publisher= IRFCA| access-date = 2012-11-21 }}</ref> Amongst the new zones started in April 2003 were [[East Coast Railway Zone|East Coast Railway]] and [[South East Central Railway Zone|South East Central Railway]] and South Coast Railway was bifurcated between ECOR and SCR and a new Zone was formed in Visakahapatnam as Headquarters. Both these railways were carved out of South Eastern Railway.<ref name=zones/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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Saroj Nalini Dutt

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{{Use Indian English|date=August 2016}}
{{more citations needed|date=October 2015}}
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| birth_place = [[Bandel]], [[Hooghly district|Hooghly]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1925|1|19|1887|10|9|df=yes}}<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |editor1-last=Sengupta |editor1-first=Subhodh Chandra |editor2-last=Basu |editor2-first=Anjali |encyclopedia=Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan (Bibliographical Dictionary) |title=সরোজনলিনী দত্ত |trans-title=Saroj Nalini Dutt |language=Bengali |edition=4th |date=January 2002 |publisher=Shishu Sahitya Samsad |volume=Volume 1 |location=Kolkata |isbn=81-85626-65-0 |pages=565}}</ref>
| death_place = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
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'''Saroj Nalini Dutt''' (''née'' De) ({{lang-bn|'''সরোজ নলিনী দত্ত'''}}) MBE, (9 October 1887 – 19 January 1925) ({{lang-bn|২৩ আশ্বিন, ১২৯৪ - ৬ মাঘ, ১৩৩১}}) was an Indian feminist and social reformer.

==Background==
She was born in [[Bandel]], Hooghly in [[Bengal]] to [[Brajendranath De]] and Nagendranandini De. In 1905, she married [[Gurusaday Dutt]]. Her son, Birendrasaday Dutt, was born in 1909.

==Work==
She was a reformer and a pioneer of the movement for the uplifting of women in Bengal. She pioneered the formation of Mahila Samitis (women's institutes) in Bengal. She started her first Mahila Samiti in 1913 in Pabna district with the object of developing friendly cooperation among the ''purdahnashin'' ladies. Subsequently, she started the Mahila Samitis of Birbhum (1916), Sultanpur (1917), and Rampurhat (1918) districts respectively.

She was the secretary of the Indian Section of the Calcutta League of Women’s Workers (later Bengal Presidency Council of Women), member of the Council of the Nari Siksha Samiti (Women’s Educational League), and Member of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation’s committee which was to make suitable arrangements for allowing women to elect councillors. She was also the vice president of the Sylhet Union, an association set up for the promotion of female education in [[Sylhet district]].

==Death==
She died suddenly of jaundice on 19 January 1925.{{Citation needed|date=March 2017}}

==Awards==
*[[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire]], 1918.

==Legacy==
Institutions named after her:

*The Saroj Nalini Dutt Memorial Association (1925).<ref name="sarojnaliniduttmemorialassociation">[http://www.sarojnaliniduttmemorialassociation.com/ Saroj Nalini Dutt Memorial Association]</ref>
*A girls high school in Suri, earlier named after its founder, [[Augustus Rivers Thompson|Sir Rivers Thompson]], which she helped to reorganise, is now named after her.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.sarojnaliniduttmemorialassociation.com/ Saroj Nalini Dutt Memorial Association]

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Saroj Nalini Dutt

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{{distinguish|Saroj Dutta}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2016}}
{{more citations needed|date=October 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2013}}
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| image = Saroj Nalini Dutt photo.jpg
| image_size = 175px
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1887|10|9|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Bandel]], [[Hooghly district|Hooghly]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1925|1|19|1887|10|9|df=yes}}<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |editor1-last=Sengupta |editor1-first=Subhodh Chandra |editor2-last=Basu |editor2-first=Anjali |encyclopedia=Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan (Bibliographical Dictionary) |title=সরোজনলিনী দত্ত |trans-title=Saroj Nalini Dutt |language=Bengali |edition=4th |date=January 2002 |publisher=Shishu Sahitya Samsad |volume=Volume 1 |location=Kolkata |isbn=81-85626-65-0 |pages=565}}</ref>
| death_place = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
| spouse = [[Gurusaday Dutt]] ({{lang-bn|গুরুসদয় দত্ত}})
| children = Birendrasaday Dutt ({{lang-bn|বীরেন্দ্রসদয় দত্ত}})
}}

'''Saroj Nalini Dutt''' (''née'' De) ({{lang-bn|'''সরোজ নলিনী দত্ত'''}}) MBE, (9 October 1887 – 19 January 1925) ({{lang-bn|২৩ আশ্বিন, ১২৯৪ - ৬ মাঘ, ১৩৩১}}) was an Indian feminist and social reformer.

==Background==
She was born in her father, [[Brajendranath De]]’s, country house in [[Bandel]], near [[Hugli-Chinsura|Hooghly]], in [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal Province]]. She was brought up with her brothers and sisters and shared with them an education under a tutor and a governess. Members of her paternal family frequently visited the [[Brahmo]] Sammilan Samaj in [[Bhowanipore]], [[Calcutta]].

In 1905, she married [[Gurusaday Dutt]]. Her only child, Birendrasaday Dutt, was born in 1909.

==Work==
She was a reformer and a pioneer of the movement for the uplifting of women in Bengal. She pioneered the formation of Mahila Samitis (women's institutes) in Bengal. She started her first Mahila Samiti in 1913 in Pabna district with the object of developing friendly cooperation among the ''purdahnashin'' ladies. Subsequently, she started the Mahila Samitis of Birbhum (1916), Sultanpur (1917), and Rampurhat (1918) districts respectively.

She was the secretary of the Indian Section of the Calcutta League of Women’s Workers (later Bengal Presidency Council of Women), member of the Council of the Nari Siksha Samiti (Women’s Educational League), and Member of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation’s committee which was to make suitable arrangements for allowing women to elect councillors. She was also the vice president of the Sylhet Union, an association set up for the promotion of female education in [[Sylhet district]].

==Death==
She died suddenly of jaundice on 19 January 1925.{{Citation needed|date=March 2017}}

==Awards==
*[[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire]], 1918.

==Legacy==
Institutions named after her:

*The Saroj Nalini Dutt Memorial Association (1925).<ref name="sarojnaliniduttmemorialassociation">[http://www.sarojnaliniduttmemorialassociation.com/ Saroj Nalini Dutt Memorial Association]</ref>
*A girls high school in Suri, earlier named after its founder, [[Augustus Rivers Thompson|Sir Rivers Thompson]], which she helped to reorganise, is now named after her.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.sarojnaliniduttmemorialassociation.com/ Saroj Nalini Dutt Memorial Association]

{{Authority control}}

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Basanta Kumar De

2022-01-05T10:13:41Z

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'''Basanta Kumar De''' ({{lang-bn|বসন্ত কুমার দে}}) (9 March 1897 - 31 August 1975) was a senior officer of the [[Bengal Nagpur Railway|BNR]].<ref name="districtgazetteers">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44156392?loggedin=true&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Irfan Habib, "Professor Barun De (1932-2013)" in ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', Volume 73, 2012, pp. 1553-1555]</ref>

==Early Life and education==
De, who was a member of a Kayastha-Brahmo family of Calcutta, was the third son of [[Brajendranath De]], Esq., ICS and Nagendranandini De (née Bose).<ref name="awomanofindia">Kundu, Rajib, (tr. & ed.), Saroj Nalini: Shankhipta Jibani, (Ababhash, Kolkata, 2014) (in Bengali), (translation of her husband Gurusaday Dutt's, A Woman of India: Being the Life of Saroj Nalini (Founder of Women's Institute Movement in India (with a foreword by Rabindranath Tagore), (Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1941)</ref> He completed his education at [[Hare School|Hare School, Calcutta]] and [[Presidency College, Calcutta]], where he completed his B.A. (Hons.) in English. He attended [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], where his moral tutor was [[James Drummond Anderson]], Esq., ICS. Later, he was admitted to The Honourable Society of [[Middle Temple]].<ref name="southasiansattheinnsofcourt"> Online list entitled 'South Asians at the Inns of Court -Middle Temple, 1863-1944', compiled by Renu Paul, in consultation with Mitra Sharafi. (Source: H.A.C. Sturgess, ed., Register of Admissions to the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple: From the Fifteenth Century to the Year 1944' (London: published for the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple by Butterworth & Co., 1949) volumes II (1782-1909) and III (1910-1944), p.82 at https://docplayer.net></ref> His son was the historian, [[Barun De]].<ref name="frontline1">[http://www.frontline.in/other/obituary/historian-and-administrator/article4995294.ece Aniruddha Ray, "Historian and Administrator", 'Frontline', 2013] Retrieved 2015-03-03</ref>

==Career==
De was recruited into the Commercial Department of the BNR in London in 1921.<ref name="bdeletterfromloudenstreet"> Letter from Brajendranath De, esq., ICS, on 9th September, 1921 from 22, Louden Street, Calcutta to his son-in-law, Gurusaday Dutt, esq., ICS, then living in London. Letter, from G.S. Dutt archive, is with his grandson, Devsaday Dutt.</ref> His first posting was as Assistant Traffic Superintendent.<ref name="reminiscencesofanindianmemberoftheindiancivilservice"> Brajendranath De, 'Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service', Calcutta, 1925-1929, pp.416-417.</ref> In that capacity, he played an important role in the building of the BNR Hotel in Puri. As a young officer posted in Kharagpore he witnessed the first railway workshop strike there led by V.V. Giri in 1927.

In 1931, he was tasked with the responsibility of carrying out the survey work for laying of the tracks from Raipur to Vizianagram and Sonepur to Bolangir. Through the 1930s he served as District Commercial Officer in Waltair, Kharagpore, Nainpur and Adra. While he was in Adra for a second time between 1939 and 1942, he was given the responsibility of managing the transportation of Congress workers and leaders attending the Ramgarh Session of the Indian National Congress of 1941. In this connection, he had to visit Mahatma Gandhi there.<ref name="oralhistory">[https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/atbohp/Barun%2BDe%3Fdesktop%3Dtrue%26macroName%3Dattachments&ved=2ahUKEwiykozQoIH1AhUVxDgGHaIvCykQFnoECAYQAQ&usg=AOvVaw083H797WHC9n5MOfE8i6xG Text of Barun De's interview given to Kris Manjapra for Tufts University Oral History Archive, 2009]</ref>

In the 1940s, he served as Regional Controller of Railway Priorities (RCRP) under the Railway Board and then as Traffic Superintendent General. During the Second World War years, he was commissioned as a Major in the Commercial Department of the BNR under the Defence of India Rules and Act.<ref name="memorandum">Memorandum dated 7th July 1947 and signed by the Commercial Traffic Manager of the BNR granting honorary ranks noted each under the War Department Notification to Ex: Defence of India Commissioned Officers of the same railway company.</ref> In 1950, he was appointed as Commercial Traffic Manager. In the last two years of his career, he attended meetings chaired by the then Chief Minister of West Bengal, Bidhan Chandra Ray.

De retired from active service at the end of 1952.

==Post-retirement==

After retirement, he was offered membership of the Railway Recruitment Board in Gorakhpur, which he declined. He took the initiative to publish large segments of his father, Brajendranath De's, memoir in the ''Calcutta Review'', on the occasion of the latter's birth centenary in 1952. As an original Trustee of the Estate of the Late Gurusaday Dutt, he recommended as well as contributed to the formation of the Gurusaday Dutt Folk Arts Museum, which is now under the Bratachari Society. In 1968, he was elected a member<ref name="hareschoolcalcutta">Notice dated 12th March 1968, signed by M. Pradhan, Hony. General Secretary of the Organising Committee of Hare School, Calcutta</ref> of the Organising Committee of the 150th Foundation Anniversary Celebration of his alma mater, Hare School, Calcutta and chairman<ref name="homeschoolcalcuttabrochuresubcommittee">Minutes of the Meeting of the Brochure Sub-Committee held at Hare School at 4-30 P.M. on Friday, the 22nd March, 1968</ref> of the Brochure Sub-Committee of the Organising Committee responsible for the publication of all materials related to the foundation day celebration.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==

*[https://www.ser.indianrailways.gov.in South Eastern Railway]
*[https://www.museumsofindia.org Gurusaday Museum]

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Basanta Kumar De

2022-01-05T10:12:22Z

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'''Basanta Kumar De''' ({{lang-bn|বসন্ত কুমার দে}}) (9 March 1897 - 31 August 1975) was a senior officer of the [[Bengal Nagpur Railway|BNR]].<ref name="districtgazetteers">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44156392?loggedin=true&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Irfan Habib, "Professor Barun De (1932-2013)" in ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', Volume 73, 2012, pp. 1553-1555]</ref>

==Early Life and education==
De, who was a member of a Kayastha-Brahmo family of Calcutta, was the third son of [[Brajendranath De]], Esq., ICS and Nagendranandini De (née Bose).<ref name="awomanofindia">Kundu, Rajib, (tr. & ed.), Saroj Nalini: Shankhipta Jibani, (Ababhash, Kolkata, 2014) (in Bengali), (translation of her husband Gurusaday Dutt's, A Woman of India: Being the Life of Saroj Nalini (Founder of Women's Institute Movement in India (with a foreword by Rabindranath Tagore), (Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1941)</ref> He completed his education at [[Hare School|Hare School, Calcutta]] and [[Presidency College, Calcutta]], where he completed his B.A. (Hons.) in English. He attended [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], where his moral tutor was [[James Drummond Anderson]], Esq., ICS. Later, he was admitted to The Honourable Society of [[Middle Temple]].<ref name="southasiansattheinnsofcourt"> Online list entitled 'South Asians at the Inns of Court -Middle Temple, 1863-1944', compiled by Renu Paul, in consultation with Mitra Sharafi. (Source: H.A.C. Sturgess, ed., Register of Admissions to the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple: From the Fifteenth Century to the Year 1944' (London: published for the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple by Butterworth & Co., 1949) volumes II (1782-1909) and III (1910-1944), p.82 at https://docplayer.net></ref> His son was the historian, [[Barun De]].

==Career==
De was recruited into the Commercial Department of the BNR in London in 1921.<ref name="bdeletterfromloudenstreet"> Letter from Brajendranath De, esq., ICS, on 9th September, 1921 from 22, Louden Street, Calcutta to his son-in-law, Gurusaday Dutt, esq., ICS, then living in London. Letter, from G.S. Dutt archive, is with his grandson, Devsaday Dutt.</ref> His first posting was as Assistant Traffic Superintendent.<ref name="reminiscencesofanindianmemberoftheindiancivilservice"> Brajendranath De, 'Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service', Calcutta, 1925-1929, pp.416-417.</ref> In that capacity, he played an important role in the building of the BNR Hotel in Puri. As a young officer posted in Kharagpore he witnessed the first railway workshop strike there led by V.V. Giri in 1927.

In 1931, he was tasked with the responsibility of carrying out the survey work for laying of the tracks from Raipur to Vizianagram and Sonepur to Bolangir. Through the 1930s he served as District Commercial Officer in Waltair, Kharagpore, Nainpur and Adra. While he was in Adra for a second time between 1939 and 1942, he was given the responsibility of managing the transportation of Congress workers and leaders attending the Ramgarh Session of the Indian National Congress of 1941. In this connection, he had to visit Mahatma Gandhi there.<ref name="oralhistory">[https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/atbohp/Barun%2BDe%3Fdesktop%3Dtrue%26macroName%3Dattachments&ved=2ahUKEwiykozQoIH1AhUVxDgGHaIvCykQFnoECAYQAQ&usg=AOvVaw083H797WHC9n5MOfE8i6xG Text of Barun De's interview given to Kris Manjapra for Tufts University Oral History Archive, 2009]</ref>

In the 1940s, he served as Regional Controller of Railway Priorities (RCRP) under the Railway Board and then as Traffic Superintendent General. During the Second World War years, he was commissioned as a Major in the Commercial Department of the BNR under the Defence of India Rules and Act.<ref name="memorandum">Memorandum dated 7th July 1947 and signed by the Commercial Traffic Manager of the BNR granting honorary ranks noted each under the War Department Notification to Ex: Defence of India Commissioned Officers of the same railway company.</ref> In 1950, he was appointed as Commercial Traffic Manager. In the last two years of his career, he attended meetings chaired by the then Chief Minister of West Bengal, Bidhan Chandra Ray.

De retired from active service at the end of 1952.

==Post-retirement==

After retirement, he was offered membership of the Railway Recruitment Board in Gorakhpur, which he declined. He took the initiative to publish large segments of his father, Brajendranath De's, memoir in the ''Calcutta Review'', on the occasion of the latter's birth centenary in 1952. As an original Trustee of the Estate of the Late Gurusaday Dutt, he recommended as well as contributed to the formation of the Gurusaday Dutt Folk Arts Museum, which is now under the Bratachari Society. In 1968, he was elected a member<ref name="hareschoolcalcutta">Notice dated 12th March 1968, signed by M. Pradhan, Hony. General Secretary of the Organising Committee of Hare School, Calcutta</ref> of the Organising Committee of the 150th Foundation Anniversary Celebration of his alma mater, Hare School, Calcutta and chairman<ref name="homeschoolcalcuttabrochuresubcommittee">Minutes of the Meeting of the Brochure Sub-Committee held at Hare School at 4-30 P.M. on Friday, the 22nd March, 1968</ref> of the Brochure Sub-Committee of the Organising Committee responsible for the publication of all materials related to the foundation day celebration.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==

*[https://www.ser.indianrailways.gov.in South Eastern Railway]
*[https://www.museumsofindia.org Gurusaday Museum]

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Basanta Kumar De

2022-01-05T10:10:36Z

2402:3A80:A6A:7258:0:4A:6A03:C101: /* Career */ Footnote shifted.

{{refimprove|date=December 2021}}

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'''Basanta Kumar De''' ({{lang-bn|বসন্ত কুমার দে}}) (9 March 1897 - 31 August 1975) was a senior officer of the [[Bengal Nagpur Railway|BNR]].<ref name="frontline1">[http://www.frontline.in/other/obituary/historian-and-administrator/article4995294.ece Aniruddha Ray, "Historian and Administrator", 'Frontline', 2013] Retrieved 2015-03-03</ref>

==Early Life and education==
De, who was a member of a Kayastha-Brahmo family of Calcutta, was the third son of [[Brajendranath De]], Esq., ICS and Nagendranandini De (née Bose).<ref name="awomanofindia">Kundu, Rajib, (tr. & ed.), Saroj Nalini: Shankhipta Jibani, (Ababhash, Kolkata, 2014) (in Bengali), (translation of her husband Gurusaday Dutt's, A Woman of India: Being the Life of Saroj Nalini (Founder of Women's Institute Movement in India (with a foreword by Rabindranath Tagore), (Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1941)</ref> He completed his education at [[Hare School|Hare School, Calcutta]] and [[Presidency College, Calcutta]], where he completed his B.A. (Hons.) in English. He attended [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], where his moral tutor was [[James Drummond Anderson]], Esq., ICS. Later, he was admitted to The Honourable Society of [[Middle Temple]].<ref name="southasiansattheinnsofcourt"> Online list entitled 'South Asians at the Inns of Court -Middle Temple, 1863-1944', compiled by Renu Paul, in consultation with Mitra Sharafi. (Source: H.A.C. Sturgess, ed., Register of Admissions to the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple: From the Fifteenth Century to the Year 1944' (London: published for the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple by Butterworth & Co., 1949) volumes II (1782-1909) and III (1910-1944), p.82 at https://docplayer.net></ref> His son was the historian, [[Barun De]].

==Career==
De was recruited into the Commercial Department of the BNR in London in 1921.<ref name="bdeletterfromloudenstreet"> Letter from Brajendranath De, esq., ICS, on 9th September, 1921 from 22, Louden Street, Calcutta to his son-in-law, Gurusaday Dutt, esq., ICS, then living in London. Letter, from G.S. Dutt archive, is with his grandson, Devsaday Dutt.</ref> His first posting was as Assistant Traffic Superintendent.<ref name="reminiscencesofanindianmemberoftheindiancivilservice"> Brajendranath De, 'Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service', Calcutta, 1925-1929, pp.416-417.</ref> In that capacity, he played an important role in the building of the BNR Hotel in Puri. As a young officer posted in Kharagpore he witnessed the first railway workshop strike there led by V.V. Giri in 1927.

In 1931, he was tasked with the responsibility of carrying out the survey work for laying of the tracks from Raipur to Vizianagram and Sonepur to Bolangir. Through the 1930s he served as District Commercial Officer in Waltair, Kharagpore, Nainpur and Adra. While he was in Adra for a second time between 1939 and 1942, he was given the responsibility of managing the transportation of Congress workers and leaders attending the Ramgarh Session of the Indian National Congress of 1941. In this connection, he had to visit Mahatma Gandhi there.<ref name="oralhistory">[https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/atbohp/Barun%2BDe%3Fdesktop%3Dtrue%26macroName%3Dattachments&ved=2ahUKEwiykozQoIH1AhUVxDgGHaIvCykQFnoECAYQAQ&usg=AOvVaw083H797WHC9n5MOfE8i6xG Text of Barun De's interview given to Kris Manjapra for Tufts University Oral History Archive, 2009]</ref>

In the 1940s, he served as Regional Controller of Railway Priorities (RCRP) under the Railway Board and then as Traffic Superintendent General. During the Second World War years, he was commissioned as a Major in the Commercial Department of the BNR under the Defence of India Rules and Act.<ref name="memorandum">Memorandum dated 7th July 1947 and signed by the Commercial Traffic Manager of the BNR granting honorary ranks noted each under the War Department Notification to Ex: Defence of India Commissioned Officers of the same railway company.</ref> In 1950, he was appointed as Commercial Traffic Manager. In the last two years of his career, he attended meetings chaired by the then Chief Minister of West Bengal, Bidhan Chandra Ray.

De retired from active service at the end of 1952.

==Post-retirement==

After retirement, he was offered membership of the Railway Recruitment Board in Gorakhpur, which he declined. He took the initiative to publish large segments of his father, Brajendranath De's, memoir in the ''Calcutta Review'', on the occasion of the latter's birth centenary in 1952. As an original Trustee of the Estate of the Late Gurusaday Dutt, he recommended as well as contributed to the formation of the Gurusaday Dutt Folk Arts Museum, which is now under the Bratachari Society. In 1968, he was elected a member<ref name="hareschoolcalcutta">Notice dated 12th March 1968, signed by M. Pradhan, Hony. General Secretary of the Organising Committee of Hare School, Calcutta</ref> of the Organising Committee of the 150th Foundation Anniversary Celebration of his alma mater, Hare School, Calcutta and chairman<ref name="homeschoolcalcuttabrochuresubcommittee">Minutes of the Meeting of the Brochure Sub-Committee held at Hare School at 4-30 P.M. on Friday, the 22nd March, 1968</ref> of the Brochure Sub-Committee of the Organising Committee responsible for the publication of all materials related to the foundation day celebration.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==

*[https://www.ser.indianrailways.gov.in South Eastern Railway]
*[https://www.museumsofindia.org Gurusaday Museum]

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[[Category:Brahmos]]
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