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| birth_date = {{birth date|1888|02|21|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = Calcutta<br />
| death_date = {{death date|1926|11|03|df=y}} <br />
| death_place = Santiniketan ?<br />
| occupation = Teacher, social worker<br />
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'''Santosh Chandra Majumdar''' (21 February 1888 – 3 November 1926) was one of the first five students of Brahmaviyalaya at Santiniketan and was associated with Santiniketan most of his later life.<br />
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Santosh Chandra Majumdar was born on 21 February 1888 at Calcutta. His father, Srish Chandra, was a deputy magistrate and a close friend and associate of [[Rabindranath Tagore]]. He was one of the first five students of Brahmavidyalaya at Santiniketan. He passed the Entrance examination in 1904, and proceeded to USA, along with the poet's son [[Rathindranath Tagore]], to study agriculture at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign|University of Illinois]].<ref name = "santosh">Bose, Anjali (editor), 2004, ''Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan'' (Biographical dictionary) Vol 2, {{in lang|bn}}, p 560, {{ISBN|81-86806-98-9}} (set) and {{ISBN|81-86806-99-7}} (Vol 2).</ref><ref name="visva">{{cite web | url =http://www.visvabharati.ac.in/SantoshchandraMajumdar.html | title = Santoshchandra Majumdar (1888-1926) | publisher = Visva Bharati |accessdate = 17 September 2019}}</ref><br />
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He graduated in agriculture and animal husbandry, and set up a dairy farm on return to India. The business venture failed and Rabindranath absorbed him as a teacher in Santiniketan. He was nominated as a member of the Executive Council of Visva-Bharati in 1919. When the [[Palli Samgathana Vibhaga]] (Institute of Rural Reconstruction) was set up at Sriniketan in 1922, he was posted there. In the absence of the director, [[Leonard Knight Elmhirst]], he was given administrative charge of Sriniketan. He was given charge of Siksha Satra in 1924.<ref name = "santosh"/><ref name="visva"/><br />
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He was a good actor and participated in Tagore's plays. He collected many Santali songs and translated them into Bengali and English.<ref name = "santosh"/><br />
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