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'''Brajendranath Dey''' ('''ব্রজেন্দ্রনাথ দে''') (23 December 1852 – 20 September 1932) was an early Indian member of the [[Indian Civil Service (British India)|Indian Civil Service]].<ref name="indiasagawhoswho">[http://indiansaga.com/whoswho/brajendra.html Indiasaga Who's Who]</ref>

==Early life and education==
De, who was born in a Kayastha (কায়স্থ)-Brahmo (ব্রাহ্ম) family, was born to Durgadas Dey (দুর্গাদাস দে), a Junior Scholar of Hindu College (later Presidency College) Calcutta (1847-1849) and a court officer in Lucknow, and Trailokyamohini Debi (ত্রৈলোক্যমোহিনী দেবী) (nee Basu). He studied at [[Hare School]], [[Calcutta]], and then Canning Collegiate School and [[Lucknow University|Canning College, Lucknow]]. Always ranking at the top of his class in school, he was placed in the first division in all his final examinations. He came first from his school in the Entrance examination of Calcutta University and fourth in the first division in the First Arts (F.A.) examination of [[Calcutta University]]. A student of English (Honours), he ranked sixth in the first division in his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) examination. Since he was a first divisioner, he was allowed to take the Master of Arts (M.A.) examination of the Calcutta University soon after the completion of his B.A. (Honours) examination. He was ranked second in the M.A. examination and was awarded the silver medal of Calcutta University.<ref name="Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari'">[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.116007/2015.116007.The-Tabaqat-i-akbari-Of-Khwajah-Nizamuddin-Ahmad-Voliii_djvu.txt Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari']</ref>

Later, he travelled to England for his higher studies, on the advice of his grand-uncle, [[Peary Charan Sarkar]] and his father's mentor, [[Raja]] [[Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee]], the taluqdar of Shankarpore, [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|United Provinces]]{{dubious|date=February 2020|reason=United Provinces didn't exist until 1902}} and for some time assistant commissioner of [[Lucknow]]. In England, he joined University College, London to appear in the Open Competitive Services examination. Having taken the examination successfully, he joined the [[Indian Civil Service]] in 1873, emerging 17th in a batch of 35 successful probationers selected from a total of 360 candidates.<ref>{{cite book |last=India Office, Great Britain |date=1905 |title=The India List and India Office List 1905 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA447 |publisher=Harrison and Sons |page=447}}</ref> He was the 8th Indian member of the [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]].<ref name="womenofindia">{{cite book |last=Forbes |first=Geraldine Hancock |author-link=Geraldine Forbes |date=1996 |title=Women in Modern India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hjilIrVt9hUC&pg=PA28 |series=The New Cambridge History of India |volume=IV.2 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=28–29 |isbn=978-0-521-65377-0 |quote="As one of the first eight Indians appointed to the Indian Civil Service (ICS), Brajendra Nath ... He insisted on educating his daughters and one of them, Saroj Nalini Dutt, led the way in organizing rural women's organizations in the years immediately following World War I."}}</ref> Subsequently, he was called to the [[bar association|Bar]] by the [[Honourable Society of the Middle Temple]] on 7 June 1875.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150213145353/http://hosted.law.wisc.edu/wordpress/sharafi/files/2010/07/Middle-2.0.pdf University of Wisconsin Law Library]</ref> He was admitted to [[St. Mary Hall, Oxford]], where he spent one year, from 1874 to 1875, on a [[Boden Sanskrit Scholarship]], having attended the lectures of [[Professor]] [[Max Mueller]] and Mr. Ruslan.<ref name="oxforduniversitycalender">Oxford University Calendar, 1875, p. 366</ref> He was the first Indian ICS officer to have studied in a college in Oxford.<ref>Renu Paul (in consultation with Mitra Sharafi), 'South Asians at the Inns of Court: Middle Temple, 1863-1944', compilation based on H. A. C. Sturgess, (eds.) 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 (1910-44), p. 2.</ref>

His second son-in-law was [[Sir]] [[Sarat Kumar Ghosh]], [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]], Chief Justice of Jaipur and Kashmir and the only interim Chief Justice of the High Court of Rajasthan, his fifth daughter and son-in-law were the social reformer [[Saroj Nalini Dutt]], [[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|MBE]],<ref name="womenofindia"/> and [[Gurusaday Dutt]], [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]], Secretary, Local Self Government and Public Health, Government of Bengal, his sixth son-in-law was Lieutenant Colonel Jyotish Chandra De, [[Indian Medical Service|IMS]],<ref name="livesless forgotten">[http://rajsaday.com/?p=2089 Lives Less Forgotten: Lieutenant Colonel Jyotish Chandra De]</ref> 2nd Indian Principal of the [[Calcutta Medical College]], his seventh son-in-law was Captain (Hon.) Dr. Paresh Chandra Datta, first Chief Medical Officer of the B.R. Singh Memorial Hospital, Calcutta then of the East Bengal Railway and Director of Public Health, Government of West Bengal and his third son was Major (Hon.) [[Basanta Kumar De]], Traffic Superintendent General and then Commercial Traffic Manager of the [[Bengal Nagpur Railway|BNR]].

Two of his grandsons were Ranajit Datta, chairman and managing director of Braithwaite, Burn and Jessop Limited and the historian [[Barun De]], chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission. Two of his great-grandchildren were the singer [[Uma Bose]]<ref name="liveslessforgotten1">[https://rajsaday.com/?p=2108 Lives Less Forgotten: Uma Bose]{{Dead link|date=October 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and the cameraman [[Subrata Mitra]].<ref name="liveslessforgotten2">[http://rajsaday.com/?p=2001 Lives Less Forgotten: Subrata Mitra]</ref>

==Career==
===Administrative===
He took up his first posting in the civil service as assistant magistrate and collector of Arrah, Behar in 1875. He served in districts where the rulers of erstwhile zamindari estates, such as Darbhanga and Dumrao, had a strong presence. After serving in a number of districts in Behar, he was posted in Raniganj, Bengal in 1881.<ref>[http://www.mocavo.com/The-New-Annual-Army-List-Militia-List-and-Indian-Civil-Service-List-1881-Volume-1881/393337/783 Military and ICS Manual]</ref> He officiated as the district magistrate and collector of [[Bankura]], [[Burdwan]] and [[Faridpur District|Faridpore]]. He served as the full district magistrate and collector of [[Khulna]], where he was befriended by Dr. Krishnadhan Ghosh, the civil surgeon of the district, and the father of [[Aurobindo Ghosh]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Heehs |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Heehs |title=The Lives of Sri Aurobindo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EZTFrMZFOvcC&pg=PA33 |year=2008 |location=New York |publisher=Columbia University Press |pages=33 |isbn=978-0-231-14098-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |date=6 August 1893 |title=Govt. Notifications: Orders by the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3KopAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT298 |journal=The Liberal and the New Dispensation |volume=XII |issue=30 |location=Calcutta |publisher=R.S. Bhattacharji |pages=9}}</ref> He became the magistrate and collector of [[Balasore district|Balasore]] in [[Orissa]] and then of [[Malda district|Malda]] and [[Hooghly district|Hooghly]].<ref name="Bengalee">"Mr. B. De", in ''Bengalee'', 7 September 1910; see also ''Indian Daily'' News, 3 September 1910</ref> He was the first Indian to be elected as chairman of the Hooghly Municipal Corporation. He was an (acting) commissioner of the [[Burdwan]] Division.<ref name="socialthoughtofrabindranathtagore">{{cite book |last=Gupta |first=Tapati Dutta |date=1993 |title=Social Thought of Rabindranath Tagore: A Historical Analysis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0HrBJJBFutsC&pg=PA122 |publisher=Abhinav Publications |page=122|isbn=9788170173021}}</ref><ref name="liberty">"Late Mr. B. De.: Passing Away of an Old Civilian" in ''Liberty'', Friday, 30 September 1932</ref>

As the district officer of Hooghly, he started the Duke Club there which was meant to be exclusively for Indians.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Mrinalini |last=Sinha |title=Britishness, Clubbability, and the Colonial Public Sphere: The Genealogy of an Imperial Institution in Colonial India |journal=The Journal of British Studies |volume=4 |issue=44 |date=October 2001 |pages=489–521 |doi=10.1086/386265 |jstor=3070745 |s2cid=143900100 }}</ref> One of his Commissioners once told him not to entertain the thought of wanting to join a British club in the district.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Tony |last1=Ballantyne | authorlink1= Tony Ballantyne (historian) |first2=Antoinette M. |last2=Burton | authorlink2 = Antoinette Burton |year=2005 |title=Bodies in Contact |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YEWulnOX_TgC&pg=PA193 |publisher=Duke University Press |page=193 |isbn=0-8223-3467-4}}</ref>

After retirement he remained actively involved in the work of the Calcutta Improvement Trust.<ref name="latemrbdepassingawayofanoldcivilian">'Late Mr. B.De: Passing Away of An Old Civilian' in ''Liberty'', Friday, 30 September 1932</ref><ref name="latemr.b.decalcuttacorporationtributes">"Late Mr. B. De, Calcutta Corporation Tributes", in ''Liberty'', Saturday, 1 October 1932</ref>

===Academic===
While still in service he translated [[Kalidas]]'s 'Vikramarvasi' and 'Manichudabadana' from Sanskrit to English.<ref name="latemrbdepassingawayofanoldcivilian"/> He edited an English-Bengali dictionary<ref name="liberty"/> and published an article on inter dining in the Madras Social Reformer (1910).

In his post-retirement years he served as a vice-president of the council of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta.<ref name="birthcentenaryofbdecelebrated">"Birth Centenary of B.De Celebrated" in ''The Statesman'', Wednesday, 24 December 1952</ref><ref name="latemrbdecelebration">"He Rehabilitated Persian in Bengal: Tributes to Late B.De: Birthday Celebration" in ''Amrita Bazar Patrika'', Wednesday, 24 December 1952</ref>

He was the translator and editor, in two volumes, [[Nizamuddin Ahmad]]'s ''Tabaqat-i-Akbari''. The third volume, which he had left fully prepared, was published posthumously by Baini Prasad and also M. Hidayat Hosain.<ref name="mr.b.dedeadretiredmemberofthecivilservice">"Mr.B.De Dead Retired Member of the Civil Service" in ''The Statesman'', 30 September 1932</ref><ref name="thestatusofmuslimwomeninmedievalindia">[https://books.google.com/books?id=yF4lDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT120&lpg=PT120&dq=Tabaqat+i+Akbari+-+Beni+Prasad&source=bl&ots=jpsDUeBIsE&sig=9Z1X7kHfL-B_-mTgLvZz8RuvAiU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJn-XwhNnOAhXLNo8KHV7XDlgQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=Tabaqat%20i%20Akbari%20-%20Beni%20Prasad&f=false Sudha Sharma, ''Status of Muslim Women in Medieval India'', Allahabad]</ref><ref name="Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari'"/>

==Legacy==
A road in Chinsura, Hooghly is named after him.<ref name="mapofchinsura">[https://www.google.com/maps/place/B.Dey+Rd,+Hooghly,+West+Bengal+712101/@22.9025053,88.3949378,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x39f893f96abb29e3:0x854c02d1d9d97a7d!8m2!3d22.9025053!4d88.3971265 Map of Chinsura, Hooghly, Bengal]</ref>

At the time of his centenary celebration in 1952, his second son, [[Basanta Kumar De]], [[esq.]], a senior officer of the [[Bengal Nagpur Railway|BNR]]<ref name="liveslessforgotten">[http://rajsaday.com/?p=1950 Lives Less Forgotten: Basanta Kumar De]</ref> took the initiative to publish in three articles sections of his reminiscences in the ''[[Calcutta Review]]''. This work was entrusted to [[Tapan Raychaudhuri]], then of the Department of Islamic History and Culture of the University of Calcutta.<ref name="feministpostcolonialisttheory">[https://books.google.com/books?id=ccFuGe-hBt0C&pg=PA456&lpg=PA456&dq=Brajendranath+De+-+Presidency+College&source=bl&ots=K2kq_JjbhL&sig=V-I5vHvmGjlu79Vk2GPSfn-c9QY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD0cvf8u7ZAhVMo48KHYq3CRU4ChDoAQgyMAM#v=onepage&q=Brajendranath%20De%20-%20Presidency%20College&f=false Mrinalini Sinha, "Reconfiguring Hiararchies: The Ilbert Bill Controversy, 1883-84", in Reina Lewis and Sarah Mills, ''Feminist Post-Colonialist Theory: A Reader'', New York and London, Routledge, 2003, p. 456]</ref>

In 2001, approximately 2,000 photographs of himself and his family members were given in loan by one of his grandsons, [[Barun De]],<ref name="epw1">[http://thankstoepw.blogspot.in/2013/09/barun-de-situating-eminent-historian.html "Situating an Eminent Historian Eminently" – Sabyasachi Bhattacharya]. Retrieved 2015-03-21.</ref>{{self-published inline|date=February 2020}}<ref name="liveslessforgotten3">[http://rajsaday.com/?p=1958 Lives Less Forgotten: Barun De]</ref> to the photographic archives of the [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]]. Later, when the archive was shifted to the newly established Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, CSSSC, Calcutta, the photographs too were deposited there.<ref name="jsrchr">Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, 2009), p. 7</ref>

==Publications==

A member of a Kayastha family of Bengal, he was a scholar of Persian and Sanskrit. He edited and translated a few works from those languages into English. They were as follows:

*(ed. & tran.), [[Kālidāsa]]'s play [[Vikramōrvaśīyam|Vikramorvasi]], 'Vikramorvaçi', Canto I., in ''[[Calcutta Review]]'', Oct. 1884, pp. 440–2.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Schuyler, Jr.|first=Montgomery|title=Bibliography of Kālidāsa's Mālavikāgnimitra and Vikramorvaçī|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|date=1902|volume=23|pages=93–101|jstor=592384|doi=10.2307/592384}}</ref>
* (ed. & tran.), ''The Tabaqat-i-Akbari of Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmad: A History of India from the Early Musalman Invasions to the Thirty-eighth year of the Reign of Akbar'' (in 3 Vols.), (Calcutta, reprint, 1973)<ref>[http://www.lppindia.com/servlet/lppgetbiblio?bno=000476 Tabaqat-i-Akbari by Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmed]</ref>
* "Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service", in ''Calcutta Review'', (1953–5).<ref>[http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/10689/12810/10/Bibliography.pdf Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service' in the Calcutta Review]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.asiaticsocietycal.com/ The Asiatic Society, Calcutta]

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Brajendranath De

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BDe2021: /* Early life and education */

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'''Brajendranath Dey''' ('''ব্রজেন্দ্রনাথ দে''') (23 December 1852 – 20 September 1932) was an early Indian member of the [[Indian Civil Service (British India)|Indian Civil Service]].<ref name="indiasagawhoswho">[http://indiansaga.com/whoswho/brajendra.html Indiasaga Who's Who]</ref>

==Early life and education==
De, who was born in a Kayastha (কায়স্থ)-Brahmo (ব্রাহ্ম) family, was born to Durgadas Dey, a Junior Scholar of Hindu College (later Presidency College) Calcutta (1847-1849) and a court officer in Lucknow, and Trailokyamohini Debi (nee Basu). He studied at [[Hare School]], [[Calcutta]], and then Canning Collegiate School and [[Lucknow University|Canning College, Lucknow]]. Always ranking at the top of his class in school, he was placed in the first division in all his final examinations. He came first from his school in the Entrance examination of Calcutta University and fourth in the first division in the First Arts (F.A.) examination of [[Calcutta University]]. A student of English (Honours), he ranked sixth in the first division in his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) examination. Since he was a first divisioner, he was allowed to take the Master of Arts (M.A.) examination of the Calcutta University soon after the completion of his B.A. (Honours) examination. He was ranked second in the M.A. examination and was awarded the silver medal of Calcutta University.<ref name="Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari'">[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.116007/2015.116007.The-Tabaqat-i-akbari-Of-Khwajah-Nizamuddin-Ahmad-Voliii_djvu.txt Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari']</ref>

Later, he travelled to England for his higher studies, on the advice of his grand-uncle, [[Peary Charan Sarkar]] and his father's mentor, [[Raja]] [[Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee]], the taluqdar of Shankarpore, [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|United Provinces]]{{dubious|date=February 2020|reason=United Provinces didn't exist until 1902}} and for some time assistant commissioner of [[Lucknow]]. In England, he joined University College, London to appear in the Open Competitive Services examination. Having taken the examination successfully, he joined the [[Indian Civil Service]] in 1873, emerging 17th in a batch of 35 successful probationers selected from a total of 360 candidates.<ref>{{cite book |last=India Office, Great Britain |date=1905 |title=The India List and India Office List 1905 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA447 |publisher=Harrison and Sons |page=447}}</ref> He was the 8th Indian member of the [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]].<ref name="womenofindia">{{cite book |last=Forbes |first=Geraldine Hancock |author-link=Geraldine Forbes |date=1996 |title=Women in Modern India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hjilIrVt9hUC&pg=PA28 |series=The New Cambridge History of India |volume=IV.2 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=28–29 |isbn=978-0-521-65377-0 |quote="As one of the first eight Indians appointed to the Indian Civil Service (ICS), Brajendra Nath ... He insisted on educating his daughters and one of them, Saroj Nalini Dutt, led the way in organizing rural women's organizations in the years immediately following World War I."}}</ref> Subsequently, he was called to the [[bar association|Bar]] by the [[Honourable Society of the Middle Temple]] on 7 June 1875.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150213145353/http://hosted.law.wisc.edu/wordpress/sharafi/files/2010/07/Middle-2.0.pdf University of Wisconsin Law Library]</ref> He was admitted to [[St. Mary Hall, Oxford]], where he spent one year, from 1874 to 1875, on a [[Boden Sanskrit Scholarship]], having attended the lectures of [[Professor]] [[Max Mueller]] and Mr. Ruslan.<ref name="oxforduniversitycalender">Oxford University Calendar, 1875, p. 366</ref> He was the first Indian ICS officer to have studied in a college in Oxford.<ref>Renu Paul (in consultation with Mitra Sharafi), 'South Asians at the Inns of Court: Middle Temple, 1863-1944', compilation based on H. A. C. Sturgess, (eds.) 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 (1910-44), p. 2.</ref>

His second son-in-law was [[Sir]] [[Sarat Kumar Ghosh]], [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]], Chief Justice of Jaipur and Kashmir and the only interim Chief Justice of the High Court of Rajasthan, his fifth daughter and son-in-law were the social reformer [[Saroj Nalini Dutt]], [[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|MBE]],<ref name="womenofindia"/> and [[Gurusaday Dutt]], [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]], Secretary, Local Self Government and Public Health, Government of Bengal, his sixth son-in-law was Lieutenant Colonel Jyotish Chandra De, [[Indian Medical Service|IMS]],<ref name="livesless forgotten">[http://rajsaday.com/?p=2089 Lives Less Forgotten: Lieutenant Colonel Jyotish Chandra De]</ref> 2nd Indian Principal of the [[Calcutta Medical College]], his seventh son-in-law was Captain (Hon.) Dr. Paresh Chandra Datta, first Chief Medical Officer of the B.R. Singh Memorial Hospital, Calcutta then of the East Bengal Railway and Director of Public Health, Government of West Bengal and his third son was Major (Hon.) [[Basanta Kumar De]], Traffic Superintendent General and then Commercial Traffic Manager of the [[Bengal Nagpur Railway|BNR]].

Two of his grandsons were Ranajit Datta, chairman and managing director of Braithwaite, Burn and Jessop Limited and the historian [[Barun De]], chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission. Two of his great-grandchildren were the singer [[Uma Bose]]<ref name="liveslessforgotten1">[https://rajsaday.com/?p=2108 Lives Less Forgotten: Uma Bose]{{Dead link|date=October 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and the cameraman [[Subrata Mitra]].<ref name="liveslessforgotten2">[http://rajsaday.com/?p=2001 Lives Less Forgotten: Subrata Mitra]</ref>

==Career==
===Administrative===
He took up his first posting in the civil service as assistant magistrate and collector of Arrah, Behar in 1875. He served in districts where the rulers of erstwhile zamindari estates, such as Darbhanga and Dumrao, had a strong presence. After serving in a number of districts in Behar, he was posted in Raniganj, Bengal in 1881.<ref>[http://www.mocavo.com/The-New-Annual-Army-List-Militia-List-and-Indian-Civil-Service-List-1881-Volume-1881/393337/783 Military and ICS Manual]</ref> He officiated as the district magistrate and collector of [[Bankura]], [[Burdwan]] and [[Faridpur District|Faridpore]]. He served as the full district magistrate and collector of [[Khulna]], where he was befriended by Dr. Krishnadhan Ghosh, the civil surgeon of the district, and the father of [[Aurobindo Ghosh]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Heehs |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Heehs |title=The Lives of Sri Aurobindo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EZTFrMZFOvcC&pg=PA33 |year=2008 |location=New York |publisher=Columbia University Press |pages=33 |isbn=978-0-231-14098-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |date=6 August 1893 |title=Govt. Notifications: Orders by the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3KopAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT298 |journal=The Liberal and the New Dispensation |volume=XII |issue=30 |location=Calcutta |publisher=R.S. Bhattacharji |pages=9}}</ref> He became the magistrate and collector of [[Balasore district|Balasore]] in [[Orissa]] and then of [[Malda district|Malda]] and [[Hooghly district|Hooghly]].<ref name="Bengalee">"Mr. B. De", in ''Bengalee'', 7 September 1910; see also ''Indian Daily'' News, 3 September 1910</ref> He was the first Indian to be elected as chairman of the Hooghly Municipal Corporation. He was an (acting) commissioner of the [[Burdwan]] Division.<ref name="socialthoughtofrabindranathtagore">{{cite book |last=Gupta |first=Tapati Dutta |date=1993 |title=Social Thought of Rabindranath Tagore: A Historical Analysis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0HrBJJBFutsC&pg=PA122 |publisher=Abhinav Publications |page=122|isbn=9788170173021}}</ref><ref name="liberty">"Late Mr. B. De.: Passing Away of an Old Civilian" in ''Liberty'', Friday, 30 September 1932</ref>

As the district officer of Hooghly, he started the Duke Club there which was meant to be exclusively for Indians.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Mrinalini |last=Sinha |title=Britishness, Clubbability, and the Colonial Public Sphere: The Genealogy of an Imperial Institution in Colonial India |journal=The Journal of British Studies |volume=4 |issue=44 |date=October 2001 |pages=489–521 |doi=10.1086/386265 |jstor=3070745 |s2cid=143900100 }}</ref> One of his Commissioners once told him not to entertain the thought of wanting to join a British club in the district.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Tony |last1=Ballantyne | authorlink1= Tony Ballantyne (historian) |first2=Antoinette M. |last2=Burton | authorlink2 = Antoinette Burton |year=2005 |title=Bodies in Contact |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YEWulnOX_TgC&pg=PA193 |publisher=Duke University Press |page=193 |isbn=0-8223-3467-4}}</ref>

After retirement he remained actively involved in the work of the Calcutta Improvement Trust.<ref name="latemrbdepassingawayofanoldcivilian">'Late Mr. B.De: Passing Away of An Old Civilian' in ''Liberty'', Friday, 30 September 1932</ref><ref name="latemr.b.decalcuttacorporationtributes">"Late Mr. B. De, Calcutta Corporation Tributes", in ''Liberty'', Saturday, 1 October 1932</ref>

===Academic===
While still in service he translated [[Kalidas]]'s 'Vikramarvasi' and 'Manichudabadana' from Sanskrit to English.<ref name="latemrbdepassingawayofanoldcivilian"/> He edited an English-Bengali dictionary<ref name="liberty"/> and published an article on inter dining in the Madras Social Reformer (1910).

In his post-retirement years he served as a vice-president of the council of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta.<ref name="birthcentenaryofbdecelebrated">"Birth Centenary of B.De Celebrated" in ''The Statesman'', Wednesday, 24 December 1952</ref><ref name="latemrbdecelebration">"He Rehabilitated Persian in Bengal: Tributes to Late B.De: Birthday Celebration" in ''Amrita Bazar Patrika'', Wednesday, 24 December 1952</ref>

He was the translator and editor, in two volumes, [[Nizamuddin Ahmad]]'s ''Tabaqat-i-Akbari''. The third volume, which he had left fully prepared, was published posthumously by Baini Prasad and also M. Hidayat Hosain.<ref name="mr.b.dedeadretiredmemberofthecivilservice">"Mr.B.De Dead Retired Member of the Civil Service" in ''The Statesman'', 30 September 1932</ref><ref name="thestatusofmuslimwomeninmedievalindia">[https://books.google.com/books?id=yF4lDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT120&lpg=PT120&dq=Tabaqat+i+Akbari+-+Beni+Prasad&source=bl&ots=jpsDUeBIsE&sig=9Z1X7kHfL-B_-mTgLvZz8RuvAiU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJn-XwhNnOAhXLNo8KHV7XDlgQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=Tabaqat%20i%20Akbari%20-%20Beni%20Prasad&f=false Sudha Sharma, ''Status of Muslim Women in Medieval India'', Allahabad]</ref><ref name="Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari'"/>

==Legacy==
A road in Chinsura, Hooghly is named after him.<ref name="mapofchinsura">[https://www.google.com/maps/place/B.Dey+Rd,+Hooghly,+West+Bengal+712101/@22.9025053,88.3949378,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x39f893f96abb29e3:0x854c02d1d9d97a7d!8m2!3d22.9025053!4d88.3971265 Map of Chinsura, Hooghly, Bengal]</ref>

At the time of his centenary celebration in 1952, his second son, [[Basanta Kumar De]], [[esq.]], a senior officer of the [[Bengal Nagpur Railway|BNR]]<ref name="liveslessforgotten">[http://rajsaday.com/?p=1950 Lives Less Forgotten: Basanta Kumar De]</ref> took the initiative to publish in three articles sections of his reminiscences in the ''[[Calcutta Review]]''. This work was entrusted to [[Tapan Raychaudhuri]], then of the Department of Islamic History and Culture of the University of Calcutta.<ref name="feministpostcolonialisttheory">[https://books.google.com/books?id=ccFuGe-hBt0C&pg=PA456&lpg=PA456&dq=Brajendranath+De+-+Presidency+College&source=bl&ots=K2kq_JjbhL&sig=V-I5vHvmGjlu79Vk2GPSfn-c9QY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD0cvf8u7ZAhVMo48KHYq3CRU4ChDoAQgyMAM#v=onepage&q=Brajendranath%20De%20-%20Presidency%20College&f=false Mrinalini Sinha, "Reconfiguring Hiararchies: The Ilbert Bill Controversy, 1883-84", in Reina Lewis and Sarah Mills, ''Feminist Post-Colonialist Theory: A Reader'', New York and London, Routledge, 2003, p. 456]</ref>

In 2001, approximately 2,000 photographs of himself and his family members were given in loan by one of his grandsons, [[Barun De]],<ref name="epw1">[http://thankstoepw.blogspot.in/2013/09/barun-de-situating-eminent-historian.html "Situating an Eminent Historian Eminently" – Sabyasachi Bhattacharya]. Retrieved 2015-03-21.</ref>{{self-published inline|date=February 2020}}<ref name="liveslessforgotten3">[http://rajsaday.com/?p=1958 Lives Less Forgotten: Barun De]</ref> to the photographic archives of the [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]]. Later, when the archive was shifted to the newly established Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, CSSSC, Calcutta, the photographs too were deposited there.<ref name="jsrchr">Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, 2009), p. 7</ref>

==Publications==

A member of a Kayastha family of Bengal, he was a scholar of Persian and Sanskrit. He edited and translated a few works from those languages into English. They were as follows:

*(ed. & tran.), [[Kālidāsa]]'s play [[Vikramōrvaśīyam|Vikramorvasi]], 'Vikramorvaçi', Canto I., in ''[[Calcutta Review]]'', Oct. 1884, pp. 440–2.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Schuyler, Jr.|first=Montgomery|title=Bibliography of Kālidāsa's Mālavikāgnimitra and Vikramorvaçī|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|date=1902|volume=23|pages=93–101|jstor=592384|doi=10.2307/592384}}</ref>
* (ed. & tran.), ''The Tabaqat-i-Akbari of Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmad: A History of India from the Early Musalman Invasions to the Thirty-eighth year of the Reign of Akbar'' (in 3 Vols.), (Calcutta, reprint, 1973)<ref>[http://www.lppindia.com/servlet/lppgetbiblio?bno=000476 Tabaqat-i-Akbari by Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmed]</ref>
* "Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service", in ''Calcutta Review'', (1953–5).<ref>[http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/10689/12810/10/Bibliography.pdf Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service' in the Calcutta Review]</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.asiaticsocietycal.com/ The Asiatic Society, Calcutta]

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Brajendranath De

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'''Brajendranath Dey''' ('''ব্রজেন্দ্রনাথ দে''') (23 December 1852 – 20 September 1932) was an early Indian member of the [[Indian Civil Service (British India)|Indian Civil Service]].<ref name="indiasagawhoswho">[http://indiansaga.com/whoswho/brajendra.html Indiasaga Who's Who]</ref>

==Early life and education==
De studied at [[Hare School]], [[Calcutta]], and then Canning Collegiate School and [[Lucknow University|Canning College, Lucknow]]. Always ranking at the top of his class in school, he was placed in the first division in all his final examinations. He came first from his school in the Entrance examination of Calcutta University and fourth in the first division in the First Arts (F.A.) examination of [[Calcutta University]]. A student of English (Honours), he ranked sixth in the first division in his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) examination. Since he was a first divisioner, he was allowed to take the Master of Arts (M.A.) examination of the Calcutta University soon after the completion of his B.A. (Honours) examination. He was ranked second in the M.A. examination and was awarded the silver medal of Calcutta University.<ref name="Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari'">[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.116007/2015.116007.The-Tabaqat-i-akbari-Of-Khwajah-Nizamuddin-Ahmad-Voliii_djvu.txt Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari']</ref>

Later, he travelled to England for his higher studies, on the advice of his grand-uncle, [[Peary Charan Sarkar]] and his father's mentor, [[Raja]] [[Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee]], the taluqdar of Shankarpore, [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|United Provinces]]{{dubious|date=February 2020|reason=United Provinces didn't exist until 1902}} and for some time assistant commissioner of [[Lucknow]]. In England, he joined University College, London to appear in the Open Competitive Services examination. Having taken the examination successfully, he joined the [[Indian Civil Service]] in 1873, emerging 17th in a batch of 35 successful probationers selected from a total of 360 candidates.<ref>{{cite book |last=India Office, Great Britain |date=1905 |title=The India List and India Office List 1905 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA447 |publisher=Harrison and Sons |page=447}}</ref> He was the 8th Indian member of the [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]].<ref name="womenofindia">{{cite book |last=Forbes |first=Geraldine Hancock |author-link=Geraldine Forbes |date=1996 |title=Women in Modern India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hjilIrVt9hUC&pg=PA28 |series=The New Cambridge History of India |volume=IV.2 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=28–29 |isbn=978-0-521-65377-0 |quote="As one of the first eight Indians appointed to the Indian Civil Service (ICS), Brajendra Nath ... He insisted on educating his daughters and one of them, Saroj Nalini Dutt, led the way in organizing rural women's organizations in the years immediately following World War I."}}</ref> Subsequently, he was called to the [[bar association|Bar]] by the [[Honourable Society of the Middle Temple]] on 7 June 1875.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150213145353/http://hosted.law.wisc.edu/wordpress/sharafi/files/2010/07/Middle-2.0.pdf University of Wisconsin Law Library]</ref> He was admitted to [[St. Mary Hall, Oxford]], where he spent one year, from 1874 to 1875, on a [[Boden Sanskrit Scholarship]], having attended the lectures of [[Professor]] [[Max Mueller]] and Mr. Ruslan.<ref name="oxforduniversitycalender">Oxford University Calendar, 1875, p. 366</ref> He was the first Indian ICS officer to have studied in a college in Oxford.<ref>Renu Paul (in consultation with Mitra Sharafi), 'South Asians at the Inns of Court: Middle Temple, 1863-1944', compilation based on H. A. C. Sturgess, (eds.) 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 (1910-44), p. 2.</ref>

His second son-in-law was [[Sir]] [[Sarat Kumar Ghosh]], [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]], Chief Justice of Jaipur and Kashmir and the only interim Chief Justice of the High Court of Rajasthan, his fifth daughter and son-in-law were the social reformer [[Saroj Nalini Dutt]], [[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|MBE]],<ref name="womenofindia"/> and [[Gurusaday Dutt]], [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]], Secretary, Local Self Government and Public Health, Government of Bengal, his sixth son-in-law was Lieutenant Colonel Jyotish Chandra De, [[Indian Medical Service|IMS]],<ref name="livesless forgotten">[http://rajsaday.com/?p=2089 Lives Less Forgotten: Lieutenant Colonel Jyotish Chandra De]</ref> 2nd Indian Principal of the [[Calcutta Medical College]], his seventh son-in-law was Captain (Hon.) Dr. Paresh Chandra Datta, first Chief Medical Officer of the B.R. Singh Memorial Hospital, Calcutta then of the East Bengal Railway and Director of Public Health, Government of West Bengal and his third son was Major (Hon.) [[Basanta Kumar De]], Traffic Superintendent General and then Commercial Traffic Manager of the [[Bengal Nagpur Railway|BNR]].

Two of his grandsons were Ranajit Datta, chairman and managing director of Braithwaite, Burn and Jessop Limited and the historian [[Barun De]], chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission. Two of his great-grandchildren were the singer [[Uma Bose]]<ref name="liveslessforgotten1">[https://rajsaday.com/?p=2108 Lives Less Forgotten: Uma Bose]{{Dead link|date=October 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and the cameraman [[Subrata Mitra]].<ref name="liveslessforgotten2">[http://rajsaday.com/?p=2001 Lives Less Forgotten: Subrata Mitra]</ref>

==Career==
===Administrative===
He took up his first posting in the civil service as assistant magistrate and collector of Arrah, Behar in 1875. He served in districts where the rulers of erstwhile zamindari estates, such as Darbhanga and Dumrao, had a strong presence. After serving in a number of districts in Behar, he was posted in Raniganj, Bengal in 1881.<ref>[http://www.mocavo.com/The-New-Annual-Army-List-Militia-List-and-Indian-Civil-Service-List-1881-Volume-1881/393337/783 Military and ICS Manual]</ref> He officiated as the district magistrate and collector of [[Bankura]], [[Burdwan]] and [[Faridpur District|Faridpore]]. He served as the full district magistrate and collector of [[Khulna]], where he was befriended by Dr. Krishnadhan Ghosh, the civil surgeon of the district, and the father of [[Aurobindo Ghosh]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Heehs |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Heehs |title=The Lives of Sri Aurobindo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EZTFrMZFOvcC&pg=PA33 |year=2008 |location=New York |publisher=Columbia University Press |pages=33 |isbn=978-0-231-14098-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |date=6 August 1893 |title=Govt. Notifications: Orders by the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3KopAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT298 |journal=The Liberal and the New Dispensation |volume=XII |issue=30 |location=Calcutta |publisher=R.S. Bhattacharji |pages=9}}</ref> He became the magistrate and collector of [[Balasore district|Balasore]] in [[Orissa]] and then of [[Malda district|Malda]] and [[Hooghly district|Hooghly]].<ref name="Bengalee">"Mr. B. De", in ''Bengalee'', 7 September 1910; see also ''Indian Daily'' News, 3 September 1910</ref> He was the first Indian to be elected as chairman of the Hooghly Municipal Corporation. He was an (acting) commissioner of the [[Burdwan]] Division.<ref name="socialthoughtofrabindranathtagore">{{cite book |last=Gupta |first=Tapati Dutta |date=1993 |title=Social Thought of Rabindranath Tagore: A Historical Analysis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0HrBJJBFutsC&pg=PA122 |publisher=Abhinav Publications |page=122|isbn=9788170173021}}</ref><ref name="liberty">"Late Mr. B. De.: Passing Away of an Old Civilian" in ''Liberty'', Friday, 30 September 1932</ref>

As the district officer of Hooghly, he started the Duke Club there which was meant to be exclusively for Indians.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Mrinalini |last=Sinha |title=Britishness, Clubbability, and the Colonial Public Sphere: The Genealogy of an Imperial Institution in Colonial India |journal=The Journal of British Studies |volume=4 |issue=44 |date=October 2001 |pages=489–521 |doi=10.1086/386265 |jstor=3070745 |s2cid=143900100 }}</ref> One of his Commissioners once told him not to entertain the thought of wanting to join a British club in the district.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Tony |last1=Ballantyne | authorlink1= Tony Ballantyne (historian) |first2=Antoinette M. |last2=Burton | authorlink2 = Antoinette Burton |year=2005 |title=Bodies in Contact |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YEWulnOX_TgC&pg=PA193 |publisher=Duke University Press |page=193 |isbn=0-8223-3467-4}}</ref>

After retirement he remained actively involved in the work of the Calcutta Improvement Trust.<ref name="latemrbdepassingawayofanoldcivilian">'Late Mr. B.De: Passing Away of An Old Civilian' in ''Liberty'', Friday, 30 September 1932</ref><ref name="latemr.b.decalcuttacorporationtributes">"Late Mr. B. De, Calcutta Corporation Tributes", in ''Liberty'', Saturday, 1 October 1932</ref>

===Academic===
While still in service he translated [[Kalidas]]'s 'Vikramarvasi' and 'Manichudabadana' from Sanskrit to English.<ref name="latemrbdepassingawayofanoldcivilian"/> He edited an English-Bengali dictionary<ref name="liberty"/> and published an article on inter dining in the Madras Social Reformer (1910).

In his post-retirement years he served as a vice-president of the council of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta.<ref name="birthcentenaryofbdecelebrated">"Birth Centenary of B.De Celebrated" in ''The Statesman'', Wednesday, 24 December 1952</ref><ref name="latemrbdecelebration">"He Rehabilitated Persian in Bengal: Tributes to Late B.De: Birthday Celebration" in ''Amrita Bazar Patrika'', Wednesday, 24 December 1952</ref>

He was the translator and editor, in two volumes, [[Nizamuddin Ahmad]]'s ''Tabaqat-i-Akbari''. The third volume, which he had left fully prepared, was published posthumously by Baini Prasad and also M. Hidayat Hosain.<ref name="mr.b.dedeadretiredmemberofthecivilservice">"Mr.B.De Dead Retired Member of the Civil Service" in ''The Statesman'', 30 September 1932</ref><ref name="thestatusofmuslimwomeninmedievalindia">[https://books.google.com/books?id=yF4lDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT120&lpg=PT120&dq=Tabaqat+i+Akbari+-+Beni+Prasad&source=bl&ots=jpsDUeBIsE&sig=9Z1X7kHfL-B_-mTgLvZz8RuvAiU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJn-XwhNnOAhXLNo8KHV7XDlgQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=Tabaqat%20i%20Akbari%20-%20Beni%20Prasad&f=false Sudha Sharma, ''Status of Muslim Women in Medieval India'', Allahabad]</ref><ref name="Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari'"/>

==Legacy==
A road in Chinsura, Hooghly is named after him.<ref name="mapofchinsura">[https://www.google.com/maps/place/B.Dey+Rd,+Hooghly,+West+Bengal+712101/@22.9025053,88.3949378,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x39f893f96abb29e3:0x854c02d1d9d97a7d!8m2!3d22.9025053!4d88.3971265 Map of Chinsura, Hooghly, Bengal]</ref>

At the time of his centenary celebration in 1952, his second son, [[Basanta Kumar De]], [[esq.]], a senior officer of the [[Bengal Nagpur Railway|BNR]]<ref name="liveslessforgotten">[http://rajsaday.com/?p=1950 Lives Less Forgotten: Basanta Kumar De]</ref> took the initiative to publish in three articles sections of his reminiscences in the ''[[Calcutta Review]]''. This work was entrusted to [[Tapan Raychaudhuri]], then of the Department of Islamic History and Culture of the University of Calcutta.<ref name="feministpostcolonialisttheory">[https://books.google.com/books?id=ccFuGe-hBt0C&pg=PA456&lpg=PA456&dq=Brajendranath+De+-+Presidency+College&source=bl&ots=K2kq_JjbhL&sig=V-I5vHvmGjlu79Vk2GPSfn-c9QY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD0cvf8u7ZAhVMo48KHYq3CRU4ChDoAQgyMAM#v=onepage&q=Brajendranath%20De%20-%20Presidency%20College&f=false Mrinalini Sinha, "Reconfiguring Hiararchies: The Ilbert Bill Controversy, 1883-84", in Reina Lewis and Sarah Mills, ''Feminist Post-Colonialist Theory: A Reader'', New York and London, Routledge, 2003, p. 456]</ref>

In 2001, approximately 2,000 photographs of himself and his family members were given in loan by one of his grandsons, [[Barun De]],<ref name="epw1">[http://thankstoepw.blogspot.in/2013/09/barun-de-situating-eminent-historian.html "Situating an Eminent Historian Eminently" – Sabyasachi Bhattacharya]. Retrieved 2015-03-21.</ref>{{self-published inline|date=February 2020}}<ref name="liveslessforgotten3">[http://rajsaday.com/?p=1958 Lives Less Forgotten: Barun De]</ref> to the photographic archives of the [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]]. Later, when the archive was shifted to the newly established Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, CSSSC, Calcutta, the photographs too were deposited there.<ref name="jsrchr">Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, 2009), p. 7</ref>

==Publications==

A member of a Kayastha family of Bengal, he was a scholar of Persian and Sanskrit. He edited and translated a few works from those languages into English. They were as follows:

*(ed. & tran.), [[Kālidāsa]]'s play [[Vikramōrvaśīyam|Vikramorvasi]], 'Vikramorvaçi', Canto I., in ''[[Calcutta Review]]'', Oct. 1884, pp. 440–2.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Schuyler, Jr.|first=Montgomery|title=Bibliography of Kālidāsa's Mālavikāgnimitra and Vikramorvaçī|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|date=1902|volume=23|pages=93–101|jstor=592384|doi=10.2307/592384}}</ref>
* (ed. & tran.), ''The Tabaqat-i-Akbari of Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmad: A History of India from the Early Musalman Invasions to the Thirty-eighth year of the Reign of Akbar'' (in 3 Vols.), (Calcutta, reprint, 1973)<ref>[http://www.lppindia.com/servlet/lppgetbiblio?bno=000476 Tabaqat-i-Akbari by Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmed]</ref>
* "Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service", in ''Calcutta Review'', (1953–5).<ref>[http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/10689/12810/10/Bibliography.pdf Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service' in the Calcutta Review]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.asiaticsocietycal.com/ The Asiatic Society, Calcutta]

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Brajendranath De

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'''Brajendranath Dey''' (23 December 1852 – 20 September 1932) was an early Indian member of the [[Indian Civil Service (British India)|Indian Civil Service]].<ref name="indiasagawhoswho">[http://indiansaga.com/whoswho/brajendra.html Indiasaga Who's Who]</ref>

==Early life and education==
De studied at [[Hare School]], [[Calcutta]], and then Canning Collegiate School and [[Lucknow University|Canning College, Lucknow]]. Always ranking at the top of his class in school, he was placed in the first division in all his final examinations. He came first from his school in the Entrance examination of Calcutta University and fourth in the first division in the First Arts (F.A.) examination of [[Calcutta University]]. A student of English (Honours), he ranked sixth in the first division in his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) examination. Since he was a first divisioner, he was allowed to take the Master of Arts (M.A.) examination of the Calcutta University soon after the completion of his B.A. (Honours) examination. He was ranked second in the M.A. examination and was awarded the silver medal of Calcutta University.<ref name="Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari'">[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.116007/2015.116007.The-Tabaqat-i-akbari-Of-Khwajah-Nizamuddin-Ahmad-Voliii_djvu.txt Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari']</ref>

Later, he travelled to England for his higher studies, on the advice of his grand-uncle, [[Peary Charan Sarkar]] and his father's mentor, [[Raja]] [[Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee]], the taluqdar of Shankarpore, [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|United Provinces]]{{dubious|date=February 2020|reason=United Provinces didn't exist until 1902}} and for some time assistant commissioner of [[Lucknow]]. In England, he joined University College, London to appear in the Open Competitive Services examination. Having taken the examination successfully, he joined the [[Indian Civil Service]] in 1873, emerging 17th in a batch of 35 successful probationers selected from a total of 360 candidates.<ref>{{cite book |last=India Office, Great Britain |date=1905 |title=The India List and India Office List 1905 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA447 |publisher=Harrison and Sons |page=447}}</ref> He was the 8th Indian member of the [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]].<ref name="womenofindia">{{cite book |last=Forbes |first=Geraldine Hancock |author-link=Geraldine Forbes |date=1996 |title=Women in Modern India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hjilIrVt9hUC&pg=PA28 |series=The New Cambridge History of India |volume=IV.2 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=28–29 |isbn=978-0-521-65377-0 |quote="As one of the first eight Indians appointed to the Indian Civil Service (ICS), Brajendra Nath ... He insisted on educating his daughters and one of them, Saroj Nalini Dutt, led the way in organizing rural women's organizations in the years immediately following World War I."}}</ref> Subsequently, he was called to the [[bar association|Bar]] by the [[Honourable Society of the Middle Temple]] on 7 June 1875.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150213145353/http://hosted.law.wisc.edu/wordpress/sharafi/files/2010/07/Middle-2.0.pdf University of Wisconsin Law Library]</ref> He was admitted to [[St. Mary Hall, Oxford]], where he spent one year, from 1874 to 1875, on a [[Boden Sanskrit Scholarship]], having attended the lectures of [[Professor]] [[Max Mueller]] and Mr. Ruslan.<ref name="oxforduniversitycalender">Oxford University Calendar, 1875, p. 366</ref> He was the first Indian ICS officer to have studied in a college in Oxford.<ref>Renu Paul (in consultation with Mitra Sharafi), 'South Asians at the Inns of Court: Middle Temple, 1863-1944', compilation based on H. A. C. Sturgess, (eds.) 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 (1910-44), p. 2.</ref>

His second son-in-law was [[Sir]] [[Sarat Kumar Ghosh]], [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]], Chief Justice of Jaipur and Kashmir and the only interim Chief Justice of the High Court of Rajasthan, his fifth daughter and son-in-law were the social reformer [[Saroj Nalini Dutt]], [[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|MBE]],<ref name="womenofindia"/> and [[Gurusaday Dutt]], [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]], Secretary, Local Self Government and Public Health, Government of Bengal, his sixth son-in-law was Lieutenant Colonel Jyotish Chandra De, [[Indian Medical Service|IMS]],<ref name="livesless forgotten">[http://rajsaday.com/?p=2089 Lives Less Forgotten: Lieutenant Colonel Jyotish Chandra De]</ref> 2nd Indian Principal of the [[Calcutta Medical College]], his seventh son-in-law was Captain (Hon.) Dr. Paresh Chandra Datta, first Chief Medical Officer of the B.R. Singh Memorial Hospital, Calcutta then of the East Bengal Railway and Director of Public Health, Government of West Bengal and his third son was Major (Hon.) [[Basanta Kumar De]], Traffic Superintendent General and then Commercial Traffic Manager of the [[Bengal Nagpur Railway|BNR]].

Two of his grandsons were Ranajit Datta, chairman and managing director of Braithwaite, Burn and Jessop Limited and the historian [[Barun De]], chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission. Two of his great-grandchildren were the singer [[Uma Bose]]<ref name="liveslessforgotten1">[https://rajsaday.com/?p=2108 Lives Less Forgotten: Uma Bose]{{Dead link|date=October 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and the cameraman [[Subrata Mitra]].<ref name="liveslessforgotten2">[http://rajsaday.com/?p=2001 Lives Less Forgotten: Subrata Mitra]</ref>

==Career==
===Administrative===
He took up his first posting in the civil service as assistant magistrate and collector of Arrah, Behar in 1875. He served in districts where the rulers of erstwhile zamindari estates, such as Darbhanga and Dumrao, had a strong presence. After serving in a number of districts in Behar, he was posted in Raniganj, Bengal in 1881.<ref>[http://www.mocavo.com/The-New-Annual-Army-List-Militia-List-and-Indian-Civil-Service-List-1881-Volume-1881/393337/783 Military and ICS Manual]</ref> He officiated as the district magistrate and collector of [[Bankura]], [[Burdwan]] and [[Faridpur District|Faridpore]]. He served as the full district magistrate and collector of [[Khulna]], where he was befriended by Dr. Krishnadhan Ghosh, the civil surgeon of the district, and the father of [[Aurobindo Ghosh]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Heehs |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Heehs |title=The Lives of Sri Aurobindo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EZTFrMZFOvcC&pg=PA33 |year=2008 |location=New York |publisher=Columbia University Press |pages=33 |isbn=978-0-231-14098-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |date=6 August 1893 |title=Govt. Notifications: Orders by the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3KopAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT298 |journal=The Liberal and the New Dispensation |volume=XII |issue=30 |location=Calcutta |publisher=R.S. Bhattacharji |pages=9}}</ref> He became the magistrate and collector of [[Balasore district|Balasore]] in [[Orissa]] and then of [[Malda district|Malda]] and [[Hooghly district|Hooghly]].<ref name="Bengalee">"Mr. B. De", in ''Bengalee'', 7 September 1910; see also ''Indian Daily'' News, 3 September 1910</ref> He was the first Indian to be elected as chairman of the Hooghly Municipal Corporation. He was an (acting) commissioner of the [[Burdwan]] Division.<ref name="socialthoughtofrabindranathtagore">{{cite book |last=Gupta |first=Tapati Dutta |date=1993 |title=Social Thought of Rabindranath Tagore: A Historical Analysis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0HrBJJBFutsC&pg=PA122 |publisher=Abhinav Publications |page=122|isbn=9788170173021}}</ref><ref name="liberty">"Late Mr. B. De.: Passing Away of an Old Civilian" in ''Liberty'', Friday, 30 September 1932</ref>

As the district officer of Hooghly, he started the Duke Club there which was meant to be exclusively for Indians.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Mrinalini |last=Sinha |title=Britishness, Clubbability, and the Colonial Public Sphere: The Genealogy of an Imperial Institution in Colonial India |journal=The Journal of British Studies |volume=4 |issue=44 |date=October 2001 |pages=489–521 |doi=10.1086/386265 |jstor=3070745 |s2cid=143900100 }}</ref> One of his Commissioners once told him not to entertain the thought of wanting to join a British club in the district.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Tony |last1=Ballantyne | authorlink1= Tony Ballantyne (historian) |first2=Antoinette M. |last2=Burton | authorlink2 = Antoinette Burton |year=2005 |title=Bodies in Contact |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YEWulnOX_TgC&pg=PA193 |publisher=Duke University Press |page=193 |isbn=0-8223-3467-4}}</ref>

After retirement he remained actively involved in the work of the Calcutta Improvement Trust.<ref name="latemrbdepassingawayofanoldcivilian">'Late Mr. B.De: Passing Away of An Old Civilian' in ''Liberty'', Friday, 30 September 1932</ref><ref name="latemr.b.decalcuttacorporationtributes">"Late Mr. B. De, Calcutta Corporation Tributes", in ''Liberty'', Saturday, 1 October 1932</ref>

===Academic===
While still in service he translated [[Kalidas]]'s 'Vikramarvasi' and 'Manichudabadana' from Sanskrit to English.<ref name="latemrbdepassingawayofanoldcivilian"/> He edited an English-Bengali dictionary<ref name="liberty"/> and published an article on inter dining in the Madras Social Reformer (1910).

In his post-retirement years he served as a vice-president of the council of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta.<ref name="birthcentenaryofbdecelebrated">"Birth Centenary of B.De Celebrated" in ''The Statesman'', Wednesday, 24 December 1952</ref><ref name="latemrbdecelebration">"He Rehabilitated Persian in Bengal: Tributes to Late B.De: Birthday Celebration" in ''Amrita Bazar Patrika'', Wednesday, 24 December 1952</ref>

He was the translator and editor, in two volumes, [[Nizamuddin Ahmad]]'s ''Tabaqat-i-Akbari''. The third volume, which he had left fully prepared, was published posthumously by Baini Prasad and also M. Hidayat Hosain.<ref name="mr.b.dedeadretiredmemberofthecivilservice">"Mr.B.De Dead Retired Member of the Civil Service" in ''The Statesman'', 30 September 1932</ref><ref name="thestatusofmuslimwomeninmedievalindia">[https://books.google.com/books?id=yF4lDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT120&lpg=PT120&dq=Tabaqat+i+Akbari+-+Beni+Prasad&source=bl&ots=jpsDUeBIsE&sig=9Z1X7kHfL-B_-mTgLvZz8RuvAiU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJn-XwhNnOAhXLNo8KHV7XDlgQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=Tabaqat%20i%20Akbari%20-%20Beni%20Prasad&f=false Sudha Sharma, ''Status of Muslim Women in Medieval India'', Allahabad]</ref><ref name="Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari'"/>

==Legacy==
A road in Chinsura, Hooghly is named after him.<ref name="mapofchinsura">[https://www.google.com/maps/place/B.Dey+Rd,+Hooghly,+West+Bengal+712101/@22.9025053,88.3949378,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x39f893f96abb29e3:0x854c02d1d9d97a7d!8m2!3d22.9025053!4d88.3971265 Map of Chinsura, Hooghly, Bengal]</ref>

At the time of his centenary celebration in 1952, his second son, [[Basanta Kumar De]], [[esq.]], a senior officer of the [[Bengal Nagpur Railway|BNR]]<ref name="liveslessforgotten">[http://rajsaday.com/?p=1950 Lives Less Forgotten: Basanta Kumar De]</ref> took the initiative to publish in three articles sections of his reminiscences in the ''[[Calcutta Review]]''. This work was entrusted to [[Tapan Raychaudhuri]], then of the Department of Islamic History and Culture of the University of Calcutta.<ref name="feministpostcolonialisttheory">[https://books.google.com/books?id=ccFuGe-hBt0C&pg=PA456&lpg=PA456&dq=Brajendranath+De+-+Presidency+College&source=bl&ots=K2kq_JjbhL&sig=V-I5vHvmGjlu79Vk2GPSfn-c9QY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD0cvf8u7ZAhVMo48KHYq3CRU4ChDoAQgyMAM#v=onepage&q=Brajendranath%20De%20-%20Presidency%20College&f=false Mrinalini Sinha, "Reconfiguring Hiararchies: The Ilbert Bill Controversy, 1883-84", in Reina Lewis and Sarah Mills, ''Feminist Post-Colonialist Theory: A Reader'', New York and London, Routledge, 2003, p. 456]</ref>

In 2001, approximately 2,000 photographs of himself and his family members were given in loan by one of his grandsons, [[Barun De]],<ref name="epw1">[http://thankstoepw.blogspot.in/2013/09/barun-de-situating-eminent-historian.html "Situating an Eminent Historian Eminently" – Sabyasachi Bhattacharya]. Retrieved 2015-03-21.</ref>{{self-published inline|date=February 2020}}<ref name="liveslessforgotten3">[http://rajsaday.com/?p=1958 Lives Less Forgotten: Barun De]</ref> to the photographic archives of the [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]]. Later, when the archive was shifted to the newly established Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, CSSSC, Calcutta, the photographs too were deposited there.<ref name="jsrchr">Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, 2009), p. 7</ref>

==Publications==

A member of a Kayastha family of Bengal, he was a scholar of Persian and Sanskrit. He edited and translated a few works from those languages into English. They were as follows:

*(ed. & tran.), [[Kālidāsa]]'s play [[Vikramōrvaśīyam|Vikramorvasi]], 'Vikramorvaçi', Canto I., in ''[[Calcutta Review]]'', Oct. 1884, pp. 440–2.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Schuyler, Jr.|first=Montgomery|title=Bibliography of Kālidāsa's Mālavikāgnimitra and Vikramorvaçī|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|date=1902|volume=23|pages=93–101|jstor=592384|doi=10.2307/592384}}</ref>
* (ed. & tran.), ''The Tabaqat-i-Akbari of Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmad: A History of India from the Early Musalman Invasions to the Thirty-eighth year of the Reign of Akbar'' (in 3 Vols.), (Calcutta, reprint, 1973)<ref>[http://www.lppindia.com/servlet/lppgetbiblio?bno=000476 Tabaqat-i-Akbari by Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmed]</ref>
* "Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service", in ''Calcutta Review'', (1953–5).<ref>[http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/10689/12810/10/Bibliography.pdf Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service' in the Calcutta Review]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.asiaticsocietycal.com/ The Asiatic Society, Calcutta]

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Brajendranath De

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'''Brajendranath Dey''' (23 December 1852 – 20 September 1932) was an early Indian member of the [[Indian Civil Service (British India)|Indian Civil Service]].<ref name="indiasagawhoswho">[http://indiansaga.com/whoswho/brajendra.html Indiasaga Who's Who]</ref>

==Early life and education==
De studied at [[Hare School]], [[Calcutta]], and then Canning Collegiate School and [[Lucknow University|Canning College, Lucknow]]. Always ranking at the top of his class in school, he was placed in the first division in all his final examinations. He came first from his school in the Entrance examination of Calcutta University and fourth in the first division in the First Arts (F.A.) examination of [[Calcutta University]]. A student of English (Honours), he ranked sixth in the first division in his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) examination. Since he was a first divisioner, he was allowed to take the Master of Arts (M.A.) examination of the Calcutta University soon after the completion of his B.A. (Honours) examination. He was ranked second in the M.A. examination and was awarded the silver medal of Calcutta University.<ref name="Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari'">[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.116007/2015.116007.The-Tabaqat-i-akbari-Of-Khwajah-Nizamuddin-Ahmad-Voliii_djvu.txt Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari']</ref>

Later, he travelled to England for his higher studies, on the advice of his grand-uncle, [[Peary Charan Sarkar]] and his father's mentor, [[Raja]] [[Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee]], the taluqdar of Shankarpore, [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|United Provinces]]{{dubious|date=February 2020|reason=United Provinces didn't exist until 1902}} and for some time assistant commissioner of [[Lucknow]]. In England, he joined University College, London to appear in the Open Competitive Services examination. Having taken the examination successfully, he joined the [[Indian Civil Service]] in 1873, emerging 17th in a batch of 35 successful probationers selected from a total of 360 candidates.<ref>{{cite book |last=India Office, Great Britain |date=1905 |title=The India List and India Office List 1905 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA447 |publisher=Harrison and Sons |page=447}}</ref> He was the 8th Indian member of the [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]].<ref name="womenofindia">{{cite book |last=Forbes |first=Geraldine Hancock |author-link=Geraldine Forbes |date=1996 |title=Women in Modern India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hjilIrVt9hUC&pg=PA28 |series=The New Cambridge History of India |volume=IV.2 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=28–29 |isbn=978-0-521-65377-0 |quote="As one of the first eight Indians appointed to the Indian Civil Service (ICS), Brajendra Nath ... He insisted on educating his daughters and one of them, Saroj Nalini Dutt, led the way in organizing rural women's organizations in the years immediately following World War I."}}</ref> Subsequently, he was called to the [[bar association|Bar]] by the [[Honourable Society of the Middle Temple]] on 7 June 1875.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150213145353/http://hosted.law.wisc.edu/wordpress/sharafi/files/2010/07/Middle-2.0.pdf University of Wisconsin Law Library]</ref> He was admitted to [[St. Mary Hall, Oxford]], where he spent one year, from 1874 to 1875, on a [[Boden Sanskrit Scholarship]], having attended the lectures of [[Professor]] [[Max Mueller]] and Mr. Ruslan.<ref name="oxforduniversitycalender">Oxford University Calendar, 1875, p. 366</ref> He was the first Indian ICS officer to have studied in a college in Oxford.<ref>Renu Paul (in consultation with Mitra Sharafi), 'South Asians at the Inns of Court: Middle Temple, 1863-1944', compilation based on H. A. C. Sturgess, (eds.) 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 (1910-44), p. 2.</ref>

His second son-in-law was [[Sir]] [[Sarat Kumar Ghosh]], [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]], Chief Justice of Jaipur and Kashmir and the only interim Chief Justice of the High Court of Rajasthan, his fifth daughter and son-in-law were the social reformer [[Saroj Nalini Dutt]], [[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|MBE]],<ref name="womenofindia"/> and [[Gurusaday Dutt]], [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]], Secretary, Local Self Government and Public Health, Government of Bengal, his sixth son-in-law was Lieutenant Colonel Jyotish Chandra De, [[Indian Medical Service|IMS]],<ref name="livesless forgotten">[http://rajsaday.com/?p=2089 Lives Less Forgotten: Lieutenant Colonel Jyotish Chandra De]</ref> 2nd Indian Principal of the [[Calcutta Medical College]], his seventh son-in-law was Captain (Hon.) Dr. Paresh Chandra Datta, first Chief Medical Officer of the B.R. Singh Memorial Hospital, Calcutta then of the East Bengal Railway and Director of Public Health, Government of West Bengal and his third son was Major (Hon.) [[Basanta Kumar De]], Traffic Superintendent General and then Commercial Traffic Manager of the [[Bengal Nagpur Railway|BNR]].

Two of his grandsons were Ranajit Datta, chairman and managing director of Braithwaite, Burn and Jessop Limited and the historian [[Barun De]], chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission. Two of his great-grandchildren were the singer [[Uma Bose]]<ref name="liveslessforgotten1">[https://rajsaday.com/?p=2108 Lives Less Forgotten: Uma Bose]{{Dead link|date=October 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and the cameraman [[Subrata Mitra]].<ref name="liveslessforgotten2">[http://rajsaday.com/?p=2001 Lives Less Forgotten: Subrata Mitra]</ref>

==Career==
===Administrative===
He took up his first posting in the civil service as assistant magistrate and collector of Arrah, Behar in 1875. He served in districts where the rulers of erstwhile zamindari estates, such as Darbhanga and Dumrao, had a strong presence. After serving in a number of districts in Behar, he was posted in Raniganj, Bengal in 1881.<ref>[http://www.mocavo.com/The-New-Annual-Army-List-Militia-List-and-Indian-Civil-Service-List-1881-Volume-1881/393337/783 Military and ICS Manual]</ref> He officiated as the district magistrate and collector of [[Bankura]], [[Burdwan]] and [[Faridpur District|Faridpore]]. He served as the full district magistrate and collector of [[Khulna]], where he was befriended by Dr. Krishnadhan Ghosh, the civil surgeon of the district, and the father of [[Aurobindo Ghosh]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Heehs |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Heehs |title=The Lives of Sri Aurobindo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EZTFrMZFOvcC&pg=PA33 |year=2008 |location=New York |publisher=Columbia University Press |pages=33 |isbn=978-0-231-14098-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |date=6 August 1893 |title=Govt. Notifications: Orders by the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3KopAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT298 |journal=The Liberal and the New Dispensation |volume=XII |issue=30 |location=Calcutta |publisher=R.S. Bhattacharji |pages=9}}</ref> He became the magistrate and collector of [[Balasore district|Balasore]] in [[Orissa]] and then of [[Malda district|Malda]] and [[Hooghly district|Hooghly]].<ref name="Bengalee">"Mr. B. De", in ''Bengalee'', 7 September 1910; see also ''Indian Daily'' News, 3 September 1910</ref> He was the first Indian to be elected as chairman of the Hooghly Municipal Corporation. He was an (acting) commissioner of the [[Burdwan]] Division.<ref name="socialthoughtofrabindranathtagore">{{cite book |last=Gupta |first=Tapati Dutta |date=1993 |title=Social Thought of Rabindranath Tagore: A Historical Analysis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0HrBJJBFutsC&pg=PA122 |publisher=Abhinav Publications |page=122|isbn=9788170173021}}</ref><ref name="liberty">"Late Mr. B. De.: Passing Away of an Old Civilian" in ''Liberty'', Friday, 30 September 1932</ref>

As the district officer of Hooghly, he started the Duke Club there which was meant to be exclusively for Indians.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Mrinalini |last=Sinha |title=Britishness, Clubbability, and the Colonial Public Sphere: The Genealogy of an Imperial Institution in Colonial India |journal=The Journal of British Studies |volume=4 |issue=44 |date=October 2001 |pages=489–521 |doi=10.1086/386265 |jstor=3070745 |s2cid=143900100 }}</ref> One of his Commissioners once told him not to entertain the thought of wanting to join a British club in the district.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Tony |last1=Ballantyne | authorlink1= Tony Ballantyne (historian) |first2=Antoinette M. |last2=Burton | authorlink2 = Antoinette Burton |year=2005 |title=Bodies in Contact |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YEWulnOX_TgC&pg=PA193 |publisher=Duke University Press |page=193 |isbn=0-8223-3467-4}}</ref>

After retirement he remained actively involved in the work of the Calcutta Improvement Trust.<ref name="latemrbdepassingawayofanoldcivilian">'Late Mr. B.De: Passing Away of An Old Civilian' in ''Liberty'', Friday, 30 September 1932</ref><ref name="latemr.b.decalcuttacorporationtributes">"Late Mr. B. De, Calcutta Corporation Tributes", in ''Liberty'', Saturday, 1 October 1932</ref>

===Academic===
While still in service he translated [[Kalidas]]'s 'Vikramarvasi' and 'Manichudabadana' from Sanskrit to English.<ref name="latemrbdepassingawayofanoldcivilian"/> He edited an English-Bengali dictionary<ref name="liberty"/> and published an article on inter dining in the Madras Social Reformer (1910).

In his post-retirement years he served as a vice-president of the council of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta.<ref name="birthcentenaryofbdecelebrated">"Birth Centenary of B.De Celebrated" in ''The Statesman'', Wednesday, 24 December 1952</ref><ref name="latemrbdecelebration">"He Rehabilitated Persian in Bengal: Tributes to Late B.De: Birthday Celebration" in ''Amrita Bazar Patrika'', Wednesday, 24 December 1952</ref>

He was the translator and editor, in two volumes, [[Nizamuddin Ahmad]]'s ''Tabaqat-i-Akbari''. The third volume, which he had left fully prepared, was published posthumously by Baini Prasad and also M. Hidayat Hosain.<ref name="mr.b.dedeadretiredmemberofthecivilservice">"Mr.B.De Dead Retired Member of the Civil Service" in ''The Statesman'', 30 September 1932</ref><ref name="thestatusofmuslimwomeninmedievalindia">[https://books.google.com/books?id=yF4lDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT120&lpg=PT120&dq=Tabaqat+i+Akbari+-+Beni+Prasad&source=bl&ots=jpsDUeBIsE&sig=9Z1X7kHfL-B_-mTgLvZz8RuvAiU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJn-XwhNnOAhXLNo8KHV7XDlgQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=Tabaqat%20i%20Akbari%20-%20Beni%20Prasad&f=false Sudha Sharma, ''Status of Muslim Women in Medieval India'', Allahabad]</ref><ref name="Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari'"/>

==Legacy==
A road in Chinsura, Hooghly is named after him.<ref name="mapofchinsura">[https://www.google.com/maps/place/B.Dey+Rd,+Hooghly,+West+Bengal+712101/@22.9025053,88.3949378,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x39f893f96abb29e3:0x854c02d1d9d97a7d!8m2!3d22.9025053!4d88.3971265 Map of Chinsura, Hooghly, Bengal]</ref>

At the time of his centenary celebration in 1952, his second son, Basanta Kumar De, [[Esq.]], a senior officer of the [[Bengal Nagpur Railway|BNR]]<ref name="liveslessforgotten">[http://rajsaday.com/?p=1950 Lives Less Forgotten: Basanta Kumar De]</ref> took the initiative to publish in three articles sections of his reminiscences in the ''[[Calcutta Review]]''. This work was entrusted to [[Tapan Raychaudhuri]], then of the Department of Islamic History and Culture of the University of Calcutta.<ref name="feministpostcolonialisttheory">[https://books.google.com/books?id=ccFuGe-hBt0C&pg=PA456&lpg=PA456&dq=Brajendranath+De+-+Presidency+College&source=bl&ots=K2kq_JjbhL&sig=V-I5vHvmGjlu79Vk2GPSfn-c9QY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD0cvf8u7ZAhVMo48KHYq3CRU4ChDoAQgyMAM#v=onepage&q=Brajendranath%20De%20-%20Presidency%20College&f=false Mrinalini Sinha, "Reconfiguring Hiararchies: The Ilbert Bill Controversy, 1883-84", in Reina Lewis and Sarah Mills, ''Feminist Post-Colonialist Theory: A Reader'', New York and London, Routledge, 2003, p. 456]</ref>

In 2001, approximately 2,000 photographs of himself and his family members were given in loan by one of his grandsons, [[Barun De]],<ref name="epw1">[http://thankstoepw.blogspot.in/2013/09/barun-de-situating-eminent-historian.html "Situating an Eminent Historian Eminently" – Sabyasachi Bhattacharya]. Retrieved 2015-03-21.</ref>{{self-published inline|date=February 2020}}<ref name="liveslessforgotten3">[http://rajsaday.com/?p=1958 Lives Less Forgotten: Barun De]</ref> to the photographic archives of the [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]]. Later, when the archive was shifted to the newly established Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, CSSSC, Calcutta, the photographs too were deposited there.<ref name="jsrchr">Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, 2009), p. 7</ref>

==Publications==

A member of a Kayastha family of Bengal, he was a scholar of Persian and Sanskrit. He edited and translated a few works from those languages into English. They were as follows:

*(ed. & tran.), [[Kālidāsa]]'s play [[Vikramōrvaśīyam|Vikramorvasi]], 'Vikramorvaçi', Canto I., in ''[[Calcutta Review]]'', Oct. 1884, pp. 440–2.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Schuyler, Jr.|first=Montgomery|title=Bibliography of Kālidāsa's Mālavikāgnimitra and Vikramorvaçī|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|date=1902|volume=23|pages=93–101|jstor=592384|doi=10.2307/592384}}</ref>
* (ed. & tran.), ''The Tabaqat-i-Akbari of Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmad: A History of India from the Early Musalman Invasions to the Thirty-eighth year of the Reign of Akbar'' (in 3 Vols.), (Calcutta, reprint, 1973)<ref>[http://www.lppindia.com/servlet/lppgetbiblio?bno=000476 Tabaqat-i-Akbari by Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmed]</ref>
* "Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service", in ''Calcutta Review'', (1953–5).<ref>[http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/10689/12810/10/Bibliography.pdf Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service' in the Calcutta Review]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.asiaticsocietycal.com/ The Asiatic Society, Calcutta]

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Kumar Suresh Singh

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'''Kumar Suresh Singh''' (1935–2006) commonly known as '''K. S. Singh''', was an [[Indian Administrative Service]] officer, who served as a Commissioner of Chotanagpur (1978–80) and Director-General of the [[Anthropological Survey of India]]. He is known principally for his oversight and editorship of the ''[[The People of India|People of India]]'' survey and for his studies of tribal history.

==Life==
Kumar Suresh Singh was the son of the zamindar of Nayagaon in [[Munger]] district in Bihar and a son-in-law of the Maharaja of Chotanagpur. He studied history, coming first in the first-class in the BA (Hons.) examination of [[Patna University]]. He subsequently obtained a master's degree, and finally a PhD which he wrote on the revolutionary, [[Birsa Munda]].<ref name=Frontline20060630>{{cite news |title=Scholar of society |newspaper=Frontline |volume=23 |issue=12 |date=30 June 2006 |url=http://www.flonnet.com/fl2312/stories/20060630006312500.htm |first=T. K. |last=Rajalakshmi |access-date=9 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611204439/http://www.flonnet.com/fl2312/stories/20060630006312500.htm |archive-date=11 June 2011}}</ref>

He joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1958. He worked among the [[Santhal people|Santhal]]s<ref name=Frontline20060630/> and then spent the period 1965–1968 as Deputy Commissioner at [[Palamu]], in the [[Chhotanagpur]] area. This posting coincided with the [[Famine in India#Bihar famine|Bihar famine]], for which he helped to organise relief and which introduced some innovative approaches that have subsequently been adopted elsewhere.<ref name=Sinha2007>{{cite journal |title=Obituary: Kumar Suresh Singh (1935–2006) |journal=Indian Historical Review |date=January 2007 |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=365–368 |first=A. K. |last=Sinha |doi=10.1177/037698360703400136 |s2cid=142819673 }}{{subscription required}}</ref>

His posts in the government of Bihar included being Secretary in various departments: Industries (1973–1974), Rural Development (1974–1975, and 1980–1981), and Forest and Environment (1982–1984). A. K. Sinha has noted that "Because of his honesty, integrity and adherence to the norms of administration, he was not allowed to complete his term in any department in Bihar."<ref name=Sinha2007/>

In between these various government posts, Singh returned to Chhotanagpur as Commissioner for the period 1978–1980. In 1984 he was appointed Director-General of the Anthropological Survey of India (ASI) and also Director of the [[Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya]] (National Museum of Mankind) in [[Bhopal]].<ref name=Sinha2007/>

Although Singh retired from the ASI in 1993, he remained General Editor of the ''People of India'' series until his death on 20 May 2006. He completed the final volume just before dying, having previously suffering partial [[paralysis]] from a stroke. He was a [[National Fellow]] of the [[Indian Council of Historical Research]] at the time of his death.<ref name=Frontline20060630/><ref name=Sinha2007/> [[Muchkund Dubey]] subsequently commented that {{quote|Kumar Suresh was a kind of a rare person among Indian civil servants. He was of a scholarly bent of mind right from his university days. He had a deep knowledge of a number of disciplines. His monumental contribution People of India will remain as a kind of tribute to his multifaceted talents. His empathy for and commitment to the weaker sections of society will always be remembered. He was one of the three intellectual fathers in the creation of Jharkhand.<ref name=Frontline20060630/>}}

==Tribal studies==
Singh wrote a PhD thesis on Birsa Munda, the leader of an insurgency campaign against British rule. To do this he had to rely significantly on [[folk-lore]] and other forms of [[oral history]] practised by the tribal inhabitants of the [[Jharkhand]] area of Bihar, where in total he spent 15 years conducting fieldwork. Although Singh considered [[Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi]] to be the first mainstream [[subaltern (postcolonialism)|subaltern]] historian, Sinha notes that Singh himself may have been. He went on to produce other works on tribal history.<ref name=Sinha2007/>

==People of India==
Singh had responsibility for the organisation, compilation and oversight of the ''People of India'' survey, which was intended to be an [[anthropology|anthropological]] study of the differences and linkages between all of the communities in India.The survey involved 470 scholars and identified 4694 communities during its period of fieldwork between October 1985 and 1994. Sinha notes a total of 3000 scholars, which figure appears to include those involved at various seminars and workshops. The full results of the survey fill 43 published volumes, of which 12 had been produced at the time of Singh's death.<ref name=Frontline20060630/><ref name=Sinha2007/>

The purpose and methodology of the survey has received criticism. Laura Dudley Jenkins, for example, has said that {{quote|According to its initial circular, "[t]his will be a project on the People of India by the people of India," a phrase ringing with nationalism, yet the goal of this national project is to generate a profile of each community in India, largely defined in terms of caste. Purportedly a work of apolitical anthropology, this endeavor is nevertheless sponsored by the state and uses the administrative categories of Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs). Due to India's reservation policies, which reserve quotas of government jobs, parliamentary seats, and university admissions for these disadvantaged groups, controversy rages over their boundaries, numbers, and social conditions. Although castes are a major unit of analysis ... the latest project superimposes the new theme of national unity, a politically useful focus for an ethnography sponsored by the central government of India.|source=<ref>{{cite journal |title=Another "People of India" Project: Colonial and National Anthropology |first=Laura Dudley |last=Jenkins |journal=The Journal of Asian Studies |volume=62 |issue=4 |date=November 2003 |page=1144 |publisher=Association for Asian Studies |jstor=3591762 |doi=10.2307/3591762}}</ref>}}

A review of the first volume of the series over [[Contributions to Indian Sociology]], noted:-
{{Quote|text=The author claims that the present volumes are far superior to the ethnographic descriptions of different castes done during the colonial period; but the first volume is itself reminiscent of Risley’s and Hutton’s writings on castes in the early part of this century.|sign=Bidyut Mohanty|source=<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mohanty|first=Bidyut|date=May 1996|title=Book reviews and notices : K.S. SINGH, People of India: An introduction. Vol. I. Calcutta: Anthropological Survey of India, 1992. 234 pp. Maps, appendices, bibliogr., Rs. 250|journal=Contributions to Indian Sociology|language=en|volume=30|issue=1|pages=150–151|doi=10.1177/006996679603000114|s2cid=143949630|issn=0069-9667}}</ref>}}

Another opinion favourably contrasts the project with colonial ethnography, with Sinha saying that {{quote|The colonial studies were fragmentary and micro-level; many scholars studied castes, tribes, and village communities within an atomistic framework and followed a quantitative and uncritical methodology. Unlike them, this project was supposed to prepare brief, descriptive anthropological profiles of all communities in India, with special attention to the impact of change and development on them, highlighting the linkages that bring them together.<ref name=Sinha2007/>}}

==Publications==
Aside from his writing, as author and as editor, in volumes related to the ''People of India'' survey, Singh also wrote and edited other works, a selection of which are:

*{{cite book |title=The Dust-Storm and the Hanging Mist: A Study of Birsa Munda and his Movement in Chhotanagpur, 1874–1901 |first=Kumar Suresh |last=Singh |location=Calcutta |publisher=Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay |year=1966 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gwAeAAAAMAAJ |access-date=10 November 2011}} – published version of Singh's PhD dissertation
*{{cite book |title=The Indian Famine, 1967: A Study in Crisis and Change |first=Kumar Suresh |last=Singh |location=New Delhi |publisher=People's Publishing House |year=1975 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kuiwAAAAIAAJ |access-date=9 November 2011}}
*{{cite book |title=Tribal Movements in India |volume=1 |editor-first=Kumar Suresh |editor-last=Singh |location=New Delhi |publisher=Manohar |year=1982 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=moEiAAAAMAAJ |access-date=9 November 2011}}
*{{cite book |title=Birsa Munda and his Movement, 1872–1901: A study of a Millenarian Movement in Chotanagpur |first=Kumar Suresh |last=Singh |location=Calcutta & London |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1983 |isbn=978-81-7046-205-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lFSgAAAAMAAJ |access-date=9 November 2011}}
*{{cite book |title=Tribal Society in India: An Anthropo-historical Perspective |first=Kumar Suresh |last=Singh |location=New Delhi |publisher=Manohar |year=1985 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WIAiAAAAMAAJ |access-date=9 November 2011}}
*{{cite book |title=Anthropology, Development, and Nation Building |first1=Aloke Kumar |last1=Kalla |first2=Kumar Suresh |last2=Singh |location=New Delhi |publisher=Concept Publishing Company |year=1987 |isbn=9788170220015 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mbmAAAAAMAAJ |access-date=9 November 2011}}
*{{cite book |title=Tribal Ethnography, Customary Law, and Change |editor-first=Kumar Suresh |editor-last=Singh |location=New Delhi |publisher=Concept Publishing Company |year=1993 |isbn=978-81-7022-471-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X4bW-_jEvXoC |access-date=9 November 2011}}
*{{cite book |title=Antiquity to Modernity in Tribal India: Tribal Movements in India |editor-first=Kumar Suresh |editor-last=Singh |location=New Delhi |publisher=Inter-India Publications |year=1998 |isbn=978-81-210-0385-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ubRIAAAAYAAJ |access-date=9 November 2011}}
*{{cite book |title=The Tribal Situation in India |editor-first=Kumar Suresh |editor-last=Singh |location=Simla |publisher=Indian Institute of Advanced Study |year=2002 |isbn=978-81-7986-008-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GLGBAAAAMAAJ |access-date=9 November 2011}}

==See also==
*[[William Crooke]]
*[[Herbert Hope Risley]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{cite news |first=Uday |last=Prakash |url=http://www.tehelka.com/story_main18.asp?filename=op061706the_One.asp |title=The one from the tribe |date=17 June 2006 |publisher=Tehelka |access-date=9 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110907142027/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main18.asp?filename=op061706the_One.asp |archive-date=7 September 2011 |url-status=dead }}
*{{cite journal |last=Das |first=N. K. |title=People of India and Indian Anthropology: K S Singh: A Tribute |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |volume=41 |issue=29 |year=2006 |pages=3156–3158 |jstor=4418461 }}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100417005720/http://www.ansi.gov.in/default.htm Anthropological Survey of India]

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Basanta Kumar De

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'''Basanta Kumar De''' ({{lang-bn|'''বসন্ত কুমার দে'''}}) (9 March, 1897 - 31 August, 1975) ({{lang-bn|২৭ ফাল্গুন, ১৩০৩ - ১৪ ভাদ্র, ১৩৮২}}) 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><ref name="frontline1"/>

==Early Life and education==
De, who was a member of a Kayastha (কায়স্থ)-Brahmo (ব্রাহ্ম) family of Calcutta, was the third son of [[Brajendranath De]] and Nagendranandini De (née Bose).<ref name="awomanofindia">Gurusaday Dutt, '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><ref name="সরোজনলিনী">রাজীব কুন্ডু, 'সরোজনলিনী: সংখিপ্ত জীবনি', (অবভাস, কলকাতা, ২০১৪) (Rajib Kundu, 'Saroj Nalini: Shankhipta Jibani', Ababhash, Kolkata, 2014),</ref> He completed his school education at [[Hare School|Hare School, Calcutta]] and college education at Presidency College, Calcutta, where he did his B.A. (Hons.) in English. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read English for one year. His moral tutor was James Drummond Anderson. Later, he was admitted to The Honourable Society of the 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 [[Barun De]].<ref name="frontline1">[https://frontline.thehindu.com/other/obituary/historian-and-administrator/article4995294.ece Aniruddha Ray, "Historian and Administrator", 'Frontline', 2013] Retrieved 2015-03-03</ref><ref name="districtgazetteers"/>

==Career==
De was recruited into the Commercial Department of the BNR in London in 1921.<ref name="bdeletterfromloudenstreet"> Letter from Brajendranath De on 9th September, 1921 from 22, Louden Street, Calcutta to his son-in-law, Gurusaday Dutt, then living in London. Letter, from G.S. Dutt archive, is with his (Dutt's) grandson, Devsaday Dutt.</ref><ref name="oralhistory"/> 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. Memoir manuscript in the custody of Barun De's library.</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 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 Kharagpore, Waltair,<ref name="20,theatreroadletter">Letter from Brajendranath De of 20, Theatre Road, Calcutta to Paresh Chandra Datta and Sarasi Nalini Datta, then living in England, dated 26th March, 1931. Letter in the custody of Barun De's library.</ref> Nainpur and Adra.<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> 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"/>

In the 1940s, he served as regional controller of railway priorities 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. Memorandum in the custody of Barun De's library.</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 Museum]],<ref name="gurusadaymuseum">[https://www.museumsofindia.org Gurusaday Museum]</ref> 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. Notice
in the custody of Barun De's library.</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. Agenda papers in the custody of Barun De's library.</ref> of the Brochure Sub-Committee of the Organising Committee responsible for the publication of all materials related to the foundation day celebration.

==Legacy==

Approximately 2, 000 photographs of De's family, held by him, have been given, on loan, to the photographic archive of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta in 2001.<ref name="epw1">[http://thankstoepw.blogspot.in/2013/09/barun-de-situating-eminent-historian.html "Situating an Eminent Historian Eminently" - Sabyasachi Bhattacharya] Retrieved 2015-03-21.</ref> After the archive was shifted to the newly established Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre
of the CSSSC in 2009, the photographs were deposited there.<ref name="jsrchr"> Brochure entitled Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, 2009), p. 7</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==

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

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Brahmo

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{{short description|Elite Bengali social class}}
{{distinguish|text=[[Brahma]] – the Hindu god, [[Brahmana]] – a layer of text in the Vedas, [[Brahmanism]] – the religion, or [[Brahmin]] – the caste ('varna')}}
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Bengali '''Brahmos''' are those who adhere to [[Brahmoism]], the philosophy of [[Brahmo Samaj]] which was founded by [[Raja Rammohan Roy]]. A recent publication describes the disproportionate influence of Brahmos on India's development post-19th Century as unparalleled in recent times.<ref>{{cite book|last=Roy|first=Samaren|title=Calcutta: Society and Change 1690–1990|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y-W6TjM2n1AC|year=2005|publisher=iUniverse|isbn=978-0-595-79000-5|postscript=: Fair use of extract vide section 52(1)(f) of ''Indian Copyright Act, 1957''}}</ref>

== Brahmo Samaj ==
;When is a Brahmo not a Brahmo Samajist?
One aspect of [[Brahmoism]] is recognition that not only explicit faith and worship makes for a Brahmo, but also genealogy, which is implicit. People with even a single Brahmo parent or a Brahmo guardian are treated as Brahmos until they absolutely renounce the Brahmo faith. This often causes tension within the Samaj, for example, when an offspring of a Brahmo follows [[communism]] or [[atheism]] or another religious belief without renouncing Brahmoism formally. There are differing views between the [[Theist]] and [[Deist]] streams of Brahmoism on the retention of such people within the fold. Additionally, a Brahmo who opts not to subscribe to membership of a Brahmo Samaj remains a Brahmo but ceases to be a Brahmo Samajist.<ref>{{cite web | title=DELHI BRAHMO SAMAJ | website=brahmo.org | url=http://brahmo.org/delhi-brahmo-samaj.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229093419/http://brahmo.org/delhi-brahmo-samaj.html | archive-date=2010-12-29 | url-status=dead | access-date=2019-09-23}}</ref>

== People associated with Brahmo Samaj ==

=== Banerjee ===
*[[Sasipada Banerji]] (1840–1924), Social reformer.
**[[Albion Rajkumar Banerjee|Sir Albion Rajkumar Banerjee]], [[Order of the Star of India|CSI]], [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]] (1871–1950), [[Diwan (title)|Diwan]] of [[Cochin]].

*[[Amiya Charan Banerjee]] (1891–1968), Vice Chancellor of [[Allahabad University]].
*Probha Banerji, first lady magistrate of India.
**Kalyan Banerji, Deputy Managing Director of the State Bank of India.
**[[Milon K. Banerji]] (1928–2010), Attorney General of India.
***[[Gourab Banerji]], Additional Solicitor General of India.

=== Chakrabarty ===
*[[Nikhil Chakravarty]], Founder-Editor, Mainstream Weekly.<ref name="mainstreamweekly">{{Cite web|url=http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/|title=Mainstream Weekly|website=www.mainstreamweekly.net}}</ref>
**Sumit Chakravarty, Editor, Mainstream Weekly.
*Uma Shehanobis (née Chakrabarty), Principal, [[Patha Bhavan, Kolkata|Patha Bhavan, Calcutta]].

=== Chattopadhayay ===
*[[Aghorenath Chattopadhyay]], Principal, Nizam's College, Hyderabad.
**[[Sarojini Naidu]] (1879–1949), Politician.
***[[Padmaja Naidu]] (1900–1975), Governor of West Bengal.
***[[Leela Naidu]] (1940–2009), Artist.
**[[Suhasini Chattopadhyay]], Indian freedom fighter.
**[[Virendranath Chattopadhyaya]] (1880–1937), Indian nationalist.
**[[Harindranath Chattopadhyaya]] (1898–1990), [[Padma Bhushan]], Member of Parliament, [[Vijayawada]].
**[[Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya]], [[Padma Vibhushan]], Social reformer.
***[[Krishna Chattopadhyay]] (1935–2009), Singer.

=== Bose ===
*[[Rajnarayan Basu]], Writer and intellectual of the [[Bengal Renaissance]].
**Krishnadhan Ghosh (son-in-law of Rajnarayan Basu), Civil Surgeon, Pabna, Bengal.
***[[Aurobindo Ghosh|Sri Aurobindo]], Indian nationalist; vice principal of [[Baroda College]].
*[[Girindrasekhar Bose]], Psychoanalyst.

[[File:Jagadish Chandra Bose 1926.jpg|thumb|Jagadish Chandra Bose]]
*[[Jagadish Chandra Bose|Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose]] (1858–1937), Polymath who was Professor of Physics, Presidency College, Calcutta.
*[[Abala Bose|Lady Abala Bose]] (1864–1951), Social reformer who founded the Nari Sikhshya Samities.
**[[Debendra Mohan Bose]] (1887–1975) (Sir J.C. Bose was his maternal uncle), [[Director (education)|Director]], Bose Institute, Calcutta
*[[Anandamohan Bose]] (1847–1906) (brother-in-law of Sir J.C. Bose and paternal uncle of D.M. Bose), Co-founder of [[Indian National Association]]; first Indian Wrangler at Cambridge University.

*[[Rajsekhar Bose]] (1880–1960), Author
*[[Girindrasekhar Bose]] (1887–1953), Psychiatrist.

=== Das ===
[[File:Portrait of Chittaranjan Das.JPG|thumb|Chittaranjan Das]]
*Bhuban Mohan Das
**[[Chittaranjan Das]], [[Mayor]] of Calcutta.
**[[Basanti Devi]], [[Padma Vibhushan]], Social reformer.
***[[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]] (grandson), Chief Minister of West Bengal.
***Justice Manjula Bose (granddaughter), Judge of the High Court of Calcutta.
***[[Jaidip Mukherjea]] (grandson) (1942-), Sportsman.
*[[Durga Mohan Das]] (1841–1897), Social reformer.
**[[Satish Ranjan Das]] (1870–1928), Law Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council; founder of [[Doon School]].
***[[Shomie Ranjan Das]] (1935-), Headmaster of [[Doon School]], [[Mayo College]] and [[Lawrence School, Sanawar]].
*Rakhal Chandra Das
**[[Sudhi Ranjan Das]], 5th Chief Justice of India.
***[[Group Captain]] [[Suranjan Das]]
***Anjana Sen (née Das)
***[[Ashoke Kumar Sen]], Law Minister of India.

[[File:Jibanananda Das (1899–1954).jpg|thumb|Jibanananda Das]]
*[[Kusumkumari Das]], Social Worker.
**[[Jibanananda Das]], Poet.
***[[Chidananda Dasgupta]], Filmmaker.

*[[Beni Madhab Das]] (1866–1952), Social reformer.
**[[Bina Das]] (1911–1986), Member, West Bengal Legislative Assembly, 1947–51.

*Arun Kumar Das, FRCS (Eng. & Edin.) (1924–2015), Orthopedist; Professor, NRS Medical College and Hospital, Calcutta.
*Nandita Dutta (1935–2007), Founder-Principal, [[Patha Bhavan, Kolkata|Patha Bhavan, Calcutta]].

=== Dey ===
[[File:Saroj Nalini Dutt photo.jpg|thumb|Saroj Nalini Dutt]]
*[[Brajendranath De]]y, [[Esq.]], [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]] (1852–1932), Bar-at-Law, Commissioner (Actg.) of Burdwan.
**[[Saroj Nalini Dutt]] (née Dey), [[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|M.B.E.]], (1887–1925), Social reformer.
**Hemanta Kumar Dey, Esq., Bar-at-Law, Presidency Magistrate, Calcutta.
**Lieutenant Colonel Jyotish Chandra Dey, (son-in-law), [[Indian Medical Service|I.M.S.]], 2nd Indian Principal of [[Calcutta Medical College]].
**Major (Hon.) [[Basanta Kumar De]] (1897–1975), 2nd Indian Commercial Traffic Manager, [[Bengal Nagpur Railway]].
***[[Professor]] [[Barun De]]y (1932–2013), Chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission.

=== Dutta ===
[[File:Romesh Chunder Dutt photo.jpg|thumb|Romesh Chunder Dutt]]
*[[Romesh Chunder Dutt|Romesh Chandra Dutta]] (1848–1908), [[C.I.E.]], Dewan of [[Baroda]].
**Jnanendranath Gupta, [[Esq.]], ICS (son-in-law of R.C. Dutt), Commissioner of Chittagong.
***Sudhindranath Gupta, [[Esq.]], 1st Indian Commercial Traffic Manager, Bengal Nagpur Railway.

*[[Akshay Kumar Datta]] (1820–1886), Poet.
**[[Satyendranath Dutta]] (1882–1922), Poet.

=== Ganguly ===
*[[Dwarkanath Ganguly]] (1844–1898), Social reformer.
*[[Kadambini Ganguly]] (1861–1923), First female medical graduate in South Asia.

=== Goswami ===
*[[Bijoy Krishna Goswami]] (1841–1899), Social reformer, Brahmo Acharya

=== Gupta ===
*[[Behari Lal Gupta]], [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]], (1849–1916), Dewan of [[Baroda]].
**Satish Gupta, [[Indian Audit and Accounts Service|IAAS]].
***Ranajit Gupta, [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]], Chief Secretary, West Bengal.
***[[Indrajit Gupta]] (1919–2001), Home Minister of India (1996–98).
****[[Sunanda K. Datta-Ray]] (1937-), Journalist.

*[[Sir]] [[Krishna Govinda Gupta]], [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]], Member of the Secretary of States Council in London.
**[[Atul Prasad Sen]], [[Barrister-at-Law]], Lawyer, composer and singer.

=== Mahalanobis ===
*Gurucharan Mahalanobis, President and Treasurer of [[Brahmo Samaj]].
*Subodh Chandra Mahalanobis, Founder of the Physiology Department of [[Presidency College, Calcutta]]; 1st Indian Head of Department of Physiology, [[University of Cardiff]].
*Prabodh Chandra Mahalanobis.
**[[Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis]], F.R.S., pioneer statistician and teacher of statistics, Member, 1st Planning Commission of India.

=== Mitra ===
*[[Braja Sundar Mitra]], Excise Collector, Calcutta.
***[[Deba Prasad Mitra]] (1902–1978), Pathologist.

*[[Peary Chand Mitra]] (1814–1883), Deputy Librarian, Calcutta Public Library.
*[[Kishori Chand Mitra]] (1822–1873), Police Magistrate.

=== Moitra ===
*Anupam Chandra Moitra, Geologist.
**Anil Kumar Moitra, Indian Iron and Steel Company Ltd.

=== Mukherjee ===
[[File:SubrotoMukherjee.jpg|thumb|Subroto Mukherjee]]
*[[Nibaran Chandra Mukherjee]], Social reformer.
**[[Satish Chandra Mukherjee]] (1865–1948), Educationist.
***[[Renuka Ray]] (née Mukherjee) (1904–1997), Politician.
***[[Subroto Mukerjee]] (1911–1960), First [[Chief of Air Staff (India)|Chief of Air Staff]] of the [[Indian Air Force]].
***Prasanta Mukherjee, Chairman, Railway Board.

===Nag Chaudhuri===
*[[Basanti Dulal Nag Chaudhuri]], Physicist; Vice Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

=== Pal ===
*[[Bipin Chandra Pal]] (1858–1932), Indian nationalist leader.
**[[Niranjan Pal]] (1889–1959), Playwright, screenwriter and director.
***[[Colin Pal]] (1923–2005), Film director.
****[[Deep Pal]] (1953-), Cinematographer.
**[[S. K. Dey]] (son-in-law), [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]], Union Minister for Panchayati Raj.

=== Palchaudhuri ===
*Ila Palchaudhuri, Member of Parliament, [[Nabadwip]], 1957.
**Amitabha Palchaudhuri, Chairman, Bengal National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BNCCI).
**Anik Palchaudhuri, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Gulma Mohorgong Tea Estate.

=== Ray/Roy ===
[[File:Satyajit Ray.jpg|thumb|Satyajit Ray]]
*[[Saradaranjan Ray]], Principal, Metropolitan Institution (later [[Vidyasagar College]])
*[[Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury]] (1863–1915), Scholar and entrepreneur.
**[[Sukumar Ray]] (1887–1923), Writer.
***[[Satyajit Ray]] (1921–1992), Film-maker, Bharat Ratna and Oscar Award for Lifetime Achievement (1992)
***[[Bijoya Ray]] (1917–2015),
****[[Sandip Ray]] (1953-), Film-maker.
*[[Pramadaranjan Ray]], Office of the Surveyor General of India
**[[Prabhatranjan Ray]]
***[[Prasadranjan Ray]], Administrator and author
**[[Leela Majumdar]] (1908–2007), Author.
***[[Ranjan Majumdar]], Doctor

*Pratap Chandra Roy
**[[Bidhan Chandra Roy]], 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal.
***[[Subimal Roy]], Judge of the Supreme Court of India.

*[[Prasanna Kumar Roy]] (1849–1932), Educationist.
*[[Sarala Roy]] (1859–1946), Educationist.
**[[Charulata Mukherjee]] (née Roy), Social reformer.

=== Sanyal ===
*[[Trailokyanath Sanyal]] (1848–1950), Social reformer.
**[[Aruna Asaf Ali]] (née Ganguly), Indian freedom fighter and prominent leader of the [[Quit India Movement]].
**[[Purnima Banerjee|Purmina Banerjee (née Ganguly)]], Member, [[Indian Constituent Assembly]].

=== Sarkar ===
*[[Susobhan Sarkar]] (1900–1982), Professor of History, [[Presidency College, Calcutta]].
**[[Sumit Sarkar]] (1939-), Professor of History, [[Delhi University]].

=== Sen ===
*[[Bhupati Mohan Sen]], [[Wrangler (University of Cambridge)|Wrangler]], [[Smith's Prize|Smith's Prize-man]], 2nd Indian [[Principal (academia)|Principal]] of [[Presidency College, Calcutta]], (son-in-law of [[Nilratan Sircar|Sir Nilratan Sircar]])
**Monishi Mohan Sen (1920-2019), ICS Officer
**Subrata Kumar Sen (1924–2016), [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT Graduate]], Electrical Engineering

Sen family<ref name="indianprincelystates">{{Cite web|url=http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/families/sen.html|title=SEN FAMILY|website=members.iinet.net.au|access-date=2017-03-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323063926/http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/families/sen.html|archive-date=2019-03-23|url-status=dead}}</ref>
[[File:Keshab Chandra Sen.png|thumb|Keshab Chandra Sen]]
*[[Keshub Chandra Sen]] (1838–1884), Religious reformer & founder of the Nababidhan Brahmo Samaj.
**[[Suniti Devi]] (1864–1932), Maharani of Coochbehar & founder of Sammilan Brahmo Samaj.
**[[Sucharu Devi]] (1874–1961), Maharani of Mayurbhanj.
**Saral Chandra Sen, Bar-at-Law
***Sunit Chandra Sen, Collector, Calcutta Municipal Corporation.
***[[Benita Roy]], Politician.
***[[Sadhana Bose]], Artist.
***[[Naina Devi (singer)|Nilina Singh]], Singer.
***Pradip Chandra Sen, Deputy Managing Director, Mackinnon Mackenzie.
**[[Pramathalal Sen]] (1866–1930) (nephew of Keshub Chandra Sen), Social reformer.
**[[Benoyendranath Sen]] (1868–1913) (nephew of Keshub Chandra Sen), Social reformer and leader of the New Dispensation.

* Abhijit Sen, Proprietor, Sen and Pandit Co. Ltd.

[[File:Amartya Sen NIH.jpg|thumb|Amartya Kumar Sen]]
*[[Kshitimohan Sen]] (1880–1960), 2nd [[Vice Chancellor]] of [[Visva Bharati]], [[Santiniketan]].
**Ashutosh Sen (son-in-law), Chairman, West Bengal Public Service Commission.
***[[Amartya Sen]] (1933-), 1st Asian [[Master (college)|Master]] of [[Trinity College, Cambridge]]; [[Nobel Laureate]] in Economics.

*[[Barrister]] Kumud Nath Sen
**P.K. Sengupta, Income Tax Commissioner.
**K.P. Sen, Post-Master General, Eastern India.
**[[Malati Choudhury]] (née Sen), Social Worker.

*Nitish Chandra Sen, Mayor of Calcutta.
*[[Kamini Roy]] (née Sen) (1864–1933), Social reformer and poet.

=== Sinha ===
[[Baron Sinha]] family

*[[Satyendra Prasanno Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha]] (1863–1923), Politician.
**Rt. Honourable Sushil Kumar Sinha, [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]].
**[[Romola Sinha]] (1913–2010), Social reformer.
**[[Major]] N.P. Sen, [[Indian Medical Service|IMS]].
***[[Mohit Sen]] (grandson) (1929–2003), Politician.

=== Tagore ===
[[Tagore family]]<ref name="freepages">{{Cite web|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~princelystates/states/t/tagore.html|title=Tagore Family}}</ref>
[[File:Rabindranath Tagore unknown location.jpg|thumb|Rabindranath Tagore]]
*[[Debendranath Tagore]] (1817–1905), Social reformer.
**[[Satyendranath Tagore]] (1842–1923), First Indian [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]] officer, (1863).
**[[Jnanadanandini Devi]] (1850–1941), Social reformer.
***[[Indira Devi Chaudhurani]], [[Vice Chancellor|Upacharya]], [[Visva Bharati]], [[Santiniketan]].
***[[Surendranath Tagore]], Author.
****Subirendranath Tagore
*****Supriyo Tagore, Principal, [[Patha Bhavana]], [[Santiniketan]].
**[[Hemendranath Tagore]] (1844–1884), Religious savant, founder of [[Adi Dharm]] development of Brahmoism.
**[[Rabindranath Tagore]] (1861–1941), [[Bengali people|Bengali]] poet and [[Nobel laureate]] in Literature
*[[Swarnakumari Devi]] (1855–1932), Noted Bengali poet, novelist, musician and social worker.

=== Others ===
*[[Sir]] [[Nilratan Sircar]](1861–1943), famous doctor, swadeshi entrepreneur, educationist, philanthropist, Vice-Chancellor of [[Calcutta University]]
* Heramba Chandra Maitra, famous educationist after whom [[Heramba Chandra College]] is named
*[[Sir]] [[Nalini Ranjan Chatterjee]], Judge of the High Court of Calcutta.
*[[Kalinath Bose]], first Indian Superintendent of Police.
*[[Uma Bose]] (1921–1942), Singer.
*Kiran Chandra De, [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]], [[Commissioner]], [[Chittagong]].
*[[Sib Chandra Deb]], Deputy Collector in Bengal.
*[[Umesh Chandra Dutta]], Founder of the Harinavi Brahmo Samaj.
*[[Sucheta Kriplani]], First woman Chief Minister of an Indian State.
*[[Subrata Mitra]] (1931–2001), [[Padma Shri]], Cameraman; Emeritus Professor, [[Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute]], Calcutta.
*[[Sir]] Brojendra Lal Mitter, Advocate General of Bengal.
*[[Harish Chandra Mukherjee]], Journalist.
*[[Girish Chandra Sen]], Translated the [[Quran]] into Bengali.
*[[Sir]] Nripendra Nath Sircar, Advocate General of Bengal.
*Shree [[Suresh Chandra Roy]], Padma Bhushan, Sheriff of Calcutta (1957, 1958).
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20200622013516/http://www.thebrahmosamaj.net/founders/sivnath.html] Sivnath Shastri (1847-1919), Poet and Social Reformer

== See also ==
{{Div col|colwidth=30em}}
* [[Brahmo Dharma]]
* [[History of Bengal]]
* [[Indian National Congress]]
* [[Kayastha]]
* [[Prarthana Samaj]]
* [[Tattwabodhini Patrika]]
* [[Trust deed of Brahmo Sabha]]
* [[Vaishya]]
{{div col end}}

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20091104073944/http://www.brahmo.org/ brahmo.org]
* [http://www.brahmosamaj.org/ brahmosamaj.org]

[[Category:Bengal Renaissance]]
[[Category:Brahmoism]]
[[Category:Brahmos]]
[[Category:Religious organisations based in India]]

Basanta Kumar De

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BDe2021: /* Post-retirement */

{{refimprove|date=December 2021}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1897|03|09}}
| birth_place = [[Balasore]], [[Orissa]], [[India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1975|08|31|1897|03|09}} ({{lang-bn|৭৯}})
| death_place = [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
| nationality =
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| occupation = Civil Servant
| years_active = 1921-1952
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| spouse = Pramila De ({{lang-bn|প্রমিলা দে}}) (née Gupta) ({{lang-bn|গুপ্ত}})
| children = 1
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'''Basanta Kumar De''' ({{lang-bn|'''বসন্ত কুমার দে'''}}) (9 March, 1897 - 31 August, 1975) ({{lang-bn|২৭ ফাল্গুন, ১৩০৩ - ১৪ ভাদ্র, ১৩৮২}}) 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><ref name="frontline1"/>

==Early Life and education==
De, who was a member of a Kayastha (কায়স্থ)-Brahmo (ব্রাহ্ম) family of Calcutta, was the third son of [[Brajendranath De]] and Nagendranandini De (née Bose).
<ref name="awomanofindia">Gurusaday Dutt, '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><ref name="সরোজনলিনী">রাজীব কুন্ডু, 'সরোজনলিনী: সংখিপ্ত জীবনি', (অবভাস, কলকাতা, ২০১৪) (Rajib Kundu, 'Saroj Nalini: Shankhipta Jibani', Ababhash, Kolkata, 2014),</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. Later, he was admitted to The Honourable Society of the 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 [[Barun De]].<ref name="frontline1">[https://frontline.thehindu.com/other/obituary/historian-and-administrator/article4995294.ece Aniruddha Ray, "Historian and Administrator", 'Frontline', 2013] Retrieved 2015-03-03</ref><ref name="districtgazetteers"/>

==Career==
De was recruited into the Commercial Department of the BNR in London in 1921.<ref name="bdeletterfromloudenstreet"> Letter from Brajendranath De on 9th September, 1921 from 22, Louden Street, Calcutta to his son-in-law, Gurusaday Dutt, then living in London. Letter, from G.S. Dutt archive, is with his (Dutt's) grandson, Devsaday Dutt.</ref><ref name="oralhistory"/> 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. Memoir manuscript in the custody of Barun De's library.</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 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 Kharagpore, Waltair,<ref name="20,theatreroadletter">Letter from Brajendranath De of 20, Theatre Road, Calcutta to Paresh Chandra Datta and Sarasi Nalini Datta, then living in England, dated 26th March, 1931. Letter in the custody of Barun De's library.</ref> Nainpur and Adra.<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> 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"/>

In the 1940s, he served as regional controller of railway priorities 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. Memorandum in the custody of Barun De's library.</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 Museum]],<ref name="gurusadaymuseum">[https://www.museumsofindia.org Gurusaday Museum]</ref> 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. Notice
in the custody of Barun De's library.</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. Agenda papers in the custody of Barun De's library.</ref> of the Brochure Sub-Committee of the Organising Committee responsible for the publication of all materials related to the foundation day celebration.

==Legacy==

Approximately 2, 000 photographs of De's family, held by him, have been given, on loan, to the photographic archive of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta in 2001.<ref name="epw1">[http://thankstoepw.blogspot.in/2013/09/barun-de-situating-eminent-historian.html "Situating an Eminent Historian Eminently" - Sabyasachi Bhattacharya] Retrieved 2015-03-21.</ref> After the archive was shifted to the newly established Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre
of the CSSSC in 2009, the photographs were deposited there.<ref name="jsrchr"> Brochure entitled Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, 2009), p. 7</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==

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

{{DEFAULTSORT:De, Basanta Kumar}}
[[Category:1897 births]]
[[Category:1975 deaths]]
[[Category:19th-century Bengalis]]
[[Category:20th-century Bengalis]]
[[Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge]]
[[Category:Brahmos]]
[[Category:Hare School alumni]]
[[Category:Indian Civil Servants]]
[[Category:Members of the Middle Temple]]
[[Category:People from the Hooghly district]]
[[Category:Presidency University, Kolkata alumni]]
[[Category:University of Calcutta alumni]]

Basanta Kumar De

2022-02-21T22:30:54Z

BDe2021: /* Post-retirement */

{{refimprove|date=December 2021}}

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| birth_place = [[Balasore]], [[Orissa]], [[India]]
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'''Basanta Kumar De''' ({{lang-bn|'''বসন্ত কুমার দে'''}}) (9 March, 1897 - 31 August, 1975) ({{lang-bn|২৭ ফাল্গুন, ১৩০৩ - ১৪ ভাদ্র, ১৩৮২}}) 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><ref name="frontline1"/>

==Early Life and education==
De, who was a member of a Kayastha (কায়স্থ)-Brahmo (ব্রাহ্ম) family of Calcutta, was the third son of [[Brajendranath De]] and Nagendranandini De (née Bose).
<ref name="awomanofindia">Gurusaday Dutt, '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><ref name="সরোজনলিনী">রাজীব কুন্ডু, 'সরোজনলিনী: সংখিপ্ত জীবনি', (অবভাস, কলকাতা, ২০১৪) (Rajib Kundu, 'Saroj Nalini: Shankhipta Jibani', Ababhash, Kolkata, 2014),</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. Later, he was admitted to The Honourable Society of the 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 [[Barun De]].<ref name="frontline1">[https://frontline.thehindu.com/other/obituary/historian-and-administrator/article4995294.ece Aniruddha Ray, "Historian and Administrator", 'Frontline', 2013] Retrieved 2015-03-03</ref><ref name="districtgazetteers"/>

==Career==
De was recruited into the Commercial Department of the BNR in London in 1921.<ref name="bdeletterfromloudenstreet"> Letter from Brajendranath De on 9th September, 1921 from 22, Louden Street, Calcutta to his son-in-law, Gurusaday Dutt, then living in London. Letter, from G.S. Dutt archive, is with his (Dutt's) grandson, Devsaday Dutt.</ref><ref name="oralhistory"/> 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. Memoir manuscript in the custody of Barun De's library.</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 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 Kharagpore, Waltair,<ref name="20,theatreroadletter">Letter from Brajendranath De of 20, Theatre Road, Calcutta to Paresh Chandra Datta and Sarasi Nalini Datta, then living in England, dated 26th March, 1931. Letter in the custody of Barun De's library.</ref> Nainpur and Adra.<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> 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"/>

In the 1940s, he served as regional controller of railway priorities 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. Memorandum in the custody of Barun De's library.</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 Museum]],<ref name="gurusadaymuseum">[https://www.museumsofindia.org Gurusaday Museum]</ref> 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. Letter
in the custody of Barun De's library.</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. Letter in the custody of Barun De's library.</ref> of the Brochure Sub-Committee of the Organising Committee responsible for the publication of all materials related to the foundation day celebration.

==Legacy==

Approximately 2, 000 photographs of De's family, held by him, have been given, on loan, to the photographic archive of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta in 2001.<ref name="epw1">[http://thankstoepw.blogspot.in/2013/09/barun-de-situating-eminent-historian.html "Situating an Eminent Historian Eminently" - Sabyasachi Bhattacharya] Retrieved 2015-03-21.</ref> After the archive was shifted to the newly established Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre
of the CSSSC in 2009, the photographs were deposited there.<ref name="jsrchr"> Brochure entitled Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, 2009), p. 7</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==

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

{{DEFAULTSORT:De, Basanta Kumar}}
[[Category:1897 births]]
[[Category:1975 deaths]]
[[Category:19th-century Bengalis]]
[[Category:20th-century Bengalis]]
[[Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge]]
[[Category:Brahmos]]
[[Category:Hare School alumni]]
[[Category:Indian Civil Servants]]
[[Category:Members of the Middle Temple]]
[[Category:People from the Hooghly district]]
[[Category:Presidency University, Kolkata alumni]]
[[Category:University of Calcutta alumni]]

Basanta Kumar De

2022-02-21T22:27:35Z

BDe2021: /* Career */

{{refimprove|date=December 2021}}

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'''Basanta Kumar De''' ({{lang-bn|'''বসন্ত কুমার দে'''}}) (9 March, 1897 - 31 August, 1975) ({{lang-bn|২৭ ফাল্গুন, ১৩০৩ - ১৪ ভাদ্র, ১৩৮২}}) 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><ref name="frontline1"/>

==Early Life and education==
De, who was a member of a Kayastha (কায়স্থ)-Brahmo (ব্রাহ্ম) family of Calcutta, was the third son of [[Brajendranath De]] and Nagendranandini De (née Bose).
<ref name="awomanofindia">Gurusaday Dutt, '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><ref name="সরোজনলিনী">রাজীব কুন্ডু, 'সরোজনলিনী: সংখিপ্ত জীবনি', (অবভাস, কলকাতা, ২০১৪) (Rajib Kundu, 'Saroj Nalini: Shankhipta Jibani', Ababhash, Kolkata, 2014),</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. Later, he was admitted to The Honourable Society of the 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 [[Barun De]].<ref name="frontline1">[https://frontline.thehindu.com/other/obituary/historian-and-administrator/article4995294.ece Aniruddha Ray, "Historian and Administrator", 'Frontline', 2013] Retrieved 2015-03-03</ref><ref name="districtgazetteers"/>

==Career==
De was recruited into the Commercial Department of the BNR in London in 1921.<ref name="bdeletterfromloudenstreet"> Letter from Brajendranath De on 9th September, 1921 from 22, Louden Street, Calcutta to his son-in-law, Gurusaday Dutt, then living in London. Letter, from G.S. Dutt archive, is with his (Dutt's) grandson, Devsaday Dutt.</ref><ref name="oralhistory"/> 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. Memoir manuscript in the custody of Barun De's library.</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 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 Kharagpore, Waltair,<ref name="20,theatreroadletter">Letter from Brajendranath De of 20, Theatre Road, Calcutta to Paresh Chandra Datta and Sarasi Nalini Datta, then living in England, dated 26th March, 1931. Letter in the custody of Barun De's library.</ref> Nainpur and Adra.<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> 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"/>

In the 1940s, he served as regional controller of railway priorities 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. Memorandum in the custody of Barun De's library.</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 Museum]],<ref name="gurusadaymuseum">[https://www.museumsofindia.org Gurusaday Museum]</ref> 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. Letter held
in the custody of De's son, Barun De's, library.</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. Letter held in the custody of De's son, Barun De's, library.</ref> of the Brochure Sub-Committee of the Organising Committee responsible for the publication of all materials related to the foundation day celebration.

==Legacy==

Approximately 2, 000 photographs of De's family, held by him, have been given, on loan, to the photographic archive of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta in 2001.<ref name="epw1">[http://thankstoepw.blogspot.in/2013/09/barun-de-situating-eminent-historian.html "Situating an Eminent Historian Eminently" - Sabyasachi Bhattacharya] Retrieved 2015-03-21.</ref> After the archive was shifted to the newly established Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre
of the CSSSC in 2009, the photographs were deposited there.<ref name="jsrchr"> Brochure entitled Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, 2009), p. 7</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==

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

{{DEFAULTSORT:De, Basanta Kumar}}
[[Category:1897 births]]
[[Category:1975 deaths]]
[[Category:19th-century Bengalis]]
[[Category:20th-century Bengalis]]
[[Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge]]
[[Category:Brahmos]]
[[Category:Hare School alumni]]
[[Category:Indian Civil Servants]]
[[Category:Members of the Middle Temple]]
[[Category:People from the Hooghly district]]
[[Category:Presidency University, Kolkata alumni]]
[[Category:University of Calcutta alumni]]

Basanta Kumar De

2022-02-21T22:18:59Z

BDe2021: /* Post-retirement */

{{refimprove|date=December 2021}}

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| image = 
| alt = 
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1897|03|09}}
| birth_place = [[Balasore]], [[Orissa]], [[India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1975|08|31|1897|03|09}} ({{lang-bn|৭৯}})
| death_place = [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
| nationality =
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| known_for =
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| children = 1
}}

'''Basanta Kumar De''' ({{lang-bn|'''বসন্ত কুমার দে'''}}) (9 March, 1897 - 31 August, 1975) ({{lang-bn|২৭ ফাল্গুন, ১৩০৩ - ১৪ ভাদ্র, ১৩৮২}}) 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><ref name="frontline1"/>

==Early Life and education==
De, who was a member of a Kayastha (কায়স্থ)-Brahmo (ব্রাহ্ম) family of Calcutta, was the third son of [[Brajendranath De]] and Nagendranandini De (née Bose).
<ref name="awomanofindia">Gurusaday Dutt, '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><ref name="সরোজনলিনী">রাজীব কুন্ডু, 'সরোজনলিনী: সংখিপ্ত জীবনি', (অবভাস, কলকাতা, ২০১৪) (Rajib Kundu, 'Saroj Nalini: Shankhipta Jibani', Ababhash, Kolkata, 2014),</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. Later, he was admitted to The Honourable Society of the 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 [[Barun De]].<ref name="frontline1">[https://frontline.thehindu.com/other/obituary/historian-and-administrator/article4995294.ece Aniruddha Ray, "Historian and Administrator", 'Frontline', 2013] Retrieved 2015-03-03</ref><ref name="districtgazetteers"/>

==Career==
De was recruited into the Commercial Department of the BNR in London in 1921.<ref name="bdeletterfromloudenstreet"> Letter from Brajendranath De on 9th September, 1921 from 22, Louden Street, Calcutta to his son-in-law, Gurusaday Dutt, then living in London. Letter, from G.S. Dutt archive, is with his (Dutt's) grandson, Devsaday Dutt.</ref><ref name="oralhistory"/> 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. Memoir manuscript in the custody of De's grandson, Barun De's, library.</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 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 Kharagpore, Waltair,<ref name="20,theatreroadletter">Letter from Brajendranath De of 20, Theatre Road, Calcutta to Paresh Chandra Datta and Sarasi Nalini Datta, then living in England, dated 26th March, 1931. Letter in the custody of Barun De's library.</ref> Nainpur and Adra.<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> 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"/>

In the 1940s, he served as regional controller of railway priorities 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. Memorandum in the custody of Barun De's library.</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 Museum]],<ref name="gurusadaymuseum">[https://www.museumsofindia.org Gurusaday Museum]</ref> 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. Letter held
in the custody of De's son, Barun De's, library.</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. Letter held in the custody of De's son, Barun De's, library.</ref> of the Brochure Sub-Committee of the Organising Committee responsible for the publication of all materials related to the foundation day celebration.

==Legacy==

Approximately 2, 000 photographs of De's family, held by him, have been given, on loan, to the photographic archive of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta in 2001.<ref name="epw1">[http://thankstoepw.blogspot.in/2013/09/barun-de-situating-eminent-historian.html "Situating an Eminent Historian Eminently" - Sabyasachi Bhattacharya] Retrieved 2015-03-21.</ref> After the archive was shifted to the newly established Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre
of the CSSSC in 2009, the photographs were deposited there.<ref name="jsrchr"> Brochure entitled Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, 2009), p. 7</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==

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

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Brajendranath De

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'''Brajendranath De''' ({{lang-bn|'''ব্রজেন্দ্রনাথ দে'''}}) (23 December, 1852 – 20 September, 1932) ({{lang-bn|১০ পৌষ, ১২৫৯ - ০৪ আশ্বিন, ১৩৩৯}}) was an early Indian member of the Indian Civil Service.<ref name="indiasagawhoswho">[http://indiansaga.com/whoswho/brajendra.html Indiasaga Who's Who]</ref>

==Early life and education==
De, a member of a Kayastha (কায়স্থ)-Brahmo (ব্রাহ্ম) family of Calcutta, was born to Durgadas De (দূর্গাদাস দে), an early student of Hindu College, Calcutta (later renamed Presidency University) and Trailokyamohini Debi (ত্রৈলোক্যমোহিনী দেবী). He studied at [[Hare School]], [[Calcutta]], and then Canning Collegiate School and Canning College, Lucknow,<ref name="Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari'">[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.116007/2015.116007.The-Tabaqat-i-akbari-Of-Khwajah-Nizamuddin-Ahmad-Voliii_djvu.txt Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari']</ref> where he was a pupil of Saiyid Husain Bilgrami.

Later, he travelled to England for his higher studies, joining University College, London to appear in the Open Competitive Services examination. He joined the ICS in 1873,<ref>{{cite book |last=India Office, Great Britain |date=1905 |title=The India List and India Office List 1905 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA447 |publisher=Harrison and Sons |page=447}}</ref> becoming the 8th Indian member of the steel frame.<ref name="womenofindia">Geraldine Forbes, 'Women in Modern India', The New Cambridge History of India, Volume IV.2, (Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 28–29</ref> Subsequently, he was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple on 7 June 1875.<ref>Renu Paul (in consultation with Mitra Sharafi), 'South Asians at the Inns of Court: Middle Temple, 1863-1944', compilation based on H. A. C. Sturgess, (eds.) 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 (1910-44), p. 2.</ref> He was admitted to St. Mary Hall, Oxford, where he spent one year, from 1874-1875, on a Boden Sanskrit Scholarship, attending lectures of Max Mueller and Monier-Williams.<ref name="oxforduniversitycalender">Oxford University Calendar, 1875, p. 366</ref><ref name="bkde'snote"> Note written by his third eldest son, Basanta Kumar De, on the occasion of his mother's 50th death anniversary in 1969.</ref>

His fifth eldest daughter was [[Saroj Nalini Dutt]]<ref name="womenofindia"/> and his third eldest son was [[Basanta Kumar De]], whose son was [[Barun De]].

==Career==
He took up his first posting in the civil service as assistant magistrate and collector of Arrah, Behar in 1875. After serving in a number of districts in Behar, he was posted in Raniganj, Bengal in 1881.<ref>[http://www.mocavo.com/The-New-Annual-Army-List-Militia-List-and-Indian-Civil-Service-List-1881-Volume-1881/393337/783 Military and ICS Manual]</ref> He officiated as the district magistrate and collector of Bankura, Burdwan and Faridpore. He served as the full district magistrate and collector of Khulna, where he was befriended by Dr. Krishnadhan Ghosh, the civil surgeon of the district, and the father of Aurobindo Ghosh.<ref name="sriaurobindo"> Peter Heehs, 'The Lives of Sri Aurobindo', (New York:
Columbia University Press, 2008), p. 33</ref><ref name="governmentnotifications">Government Notifications: Orders by the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, 6 August, 1893, in 'The Liberal and the New Dispensation', Volume XII, Issue 30, Calcutta, R.S. Bhattacharji, p. 9</ref> He became the magistrate and collector of [[Balasore district|Balasore]] in [[Orissa]] and then of [[Malda district|Malda]] and [[Hooghly district|Hooghly]].<ref name="Bengalee">"Mr. B. De", in ''Bengalee'', 7 September 1910; see also ''Indian Daily'' News, 3 September 1910</ref> He was the first Indian to be elected as chairman of the Hooghly Municipal Corporation. He was an (acting) commissioner of the Burdwan Division.<ref name="socialthoughtofrabindranathtagore">Tapati Dutta Gupta, 'Social Thought of Rabindranath Tagore: A Historical Analysis', Abhinav Publications, p. 122, 1993</ref><ref name="liberty">"Late Mr. B. De.: Passing Away of an Old Civilian" in ''Liberty'', Friday, 30 September 1932</ref>

As the district officer of Hooghly, he started the Duke Club there which was meant to be exclusively for Indians.<ref name="britishness">Mrinalini Sinha, 'Britishness, Clubbability, and the Colonial Public Sphere: The Genealogy of an Imperial Institution in Colonial India', in 'The Journal of British Studies', Volume 4, Issue 44, October 2001, pp. 489–521</ref> One of his commissioners once told him not to entertain the thought of wanting to join a British club in the district.<ref name="bodiesincontact">Tony Ballantyne, 'Bodies in Contact', Duke University Press, 2005, p.193</ref>

De retired from active service in 1910.

==Post-Retirement==
After retirement he remained involved in the work of the Calcutta Improvement Trust.<ref name="latemrbdepassingawayofanoldcivilian">'Late Mr. B.De: Passing Away of An Old Civilian' in ''Liberty'', Friday, 30 September 1932</ref><ref name="latemr.b.decalcuttacorporationtributes">"Late Mr. B. De, Calcutta Corporation Tributes", in ''Liberty'', Saturday, 1 October 1932</ref> He served as a vice-president of the council of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta.<ref name="birthcentenaryofbdecelebrated">"Birth Centenary of B.De Celebrated" in ''The Statesman'', Wednesday, 24 December 1952</ref><ref name="latemrbdecelebration">"He Rehabilitated Persian in Bengal: Tributes to Late B.De: Birthday Celebration" in ''Amrita Bazar Patrika'', Wednesday, 24 December 1952</ref>

==Academic==
De translated Kalidasa's 'Vikramorvasi' and 'Manichudabadana' from Sanskrit to English.<ref name="latemrbdepassingawayofanoldcivilian"/> He edited an English-Bengali dictionary<ref name="liberty"/> and published an article on inter dining in the Madras Social Reformer (1910).

He was the translator and editor, in two volumes, of [[Nizamuddin Ahmad]]'s '' The Tabaqat-i-Akbari''. The third volume, which he had left fully prepared, was posthumously published by Baini Prasad and M. Hidayat Hosain.<ref name="mr.b.dedeadretiredmemberofthecivilservice">"Mr.B.De Dead Retired Member of the Civil Service" in ''The Statesman'', 30 September 1932</ref><ref name="thestatusofmuslimwomeninmedievalindia">[https://books.google.com/books?id=yF4lDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT120&lpg=PT120&dq=Tabaqat+i+Akbari+-+Beni+Prasad&source=bl&ots=jpsDUeBIsE&sig=9Z1X7kHfL-B_-mTgLvZz8RuvAiU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJn-XwhNnOAhXLNo8KHV7XDlgQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=Tabaqat%20i%20Akbari%20-%20Beni%20Prasad&f=false Sudha Sharma, ''Status of Muslim Women in Medieval India'', Allahabad]</ref><ref name="Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari'"/>

==Legacy==
A road in Chinsura, the headquarter of Hooghly district<ref name="mapofchinsura">[https://www.google.com/maps/place/B.Dey+Rd,+Hooghly,+West+Bengal+712101/@22.9025053,88.3949378,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x39f893f96abb29e3:0x854c02d1d9d97a7d!8m2!3d22.9025053!4d88.3971265 Map of Chinsura, Hooghly, Bengal]</ref> and a hall in Malda, the headquarter of Malda district<ref name="mapofmalda"> [https://www.google.com/search?q=B.De+Hall%2C+Malda&oq=B.De+Hall%2C+Malda&aqs=chrome..69i57.15054j0j7&client=ms-android-samsung-gj-rev1&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#istate=lrl:mlt&trex=m_r:1,m_t:gwp,rc_q:B.De%2520Hall%252C%2520Malda,rc_ui:1,ru_gwp:0%252C6,ru_q:B.De%2520Hall%252C%2520Malda,trex_id:A9QtDb Map of Malda, Bengal]</ref> are named after him.

==Publications==

*(Ed. & tran.), Kālidāsa's play [[Vikramōrvaśīyam|Vikramorvasi]], Canto I., in ''[[Calcutta Review]]'', Oct. 1884, pp. 440–2.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Schuyler, Jr.|first=Montgomery|title=Bibliography of Kālidāsa's Mālavikāgnimitra and Vikramorvaçī|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|date=1902|volume=23|pages=93–101|jstor=592384|doi=10.2307/592384}}</ref>
* (Ed. & tran.), ''The Tabaqat-i-Akbari of Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmad: A History of India from the Early Musalman Invasions to the Thirty-eighth year of the Reign of Akbar'' (in 3 Vols.), (Calcutta, reprint, 1973)<ref>[http://www.lppindia.com/servlet/lppgetbiblio?bno=000476 Tabaqat-i-Akbari by Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmed]</ref>
* "Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service", in ''Calcutta Review'', (1953–5) (in 3 parts).<ref>[http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/10689/12810/10/Bibliography.pdf Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service' in the Calcutta Review]</ref><ref name="feministpostcolonialisttheory">[https://books.google.com/books?id=ccFuGe-hBt0C&pg=PA456&lpg=PA456&dq=Brajendranath+De+-+Presidency+College&source=bl&ots=K2kq_JjbhL&sig=V-I5vHvmGjlu79Vk2GPSfn-c9QY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD0cvf8u7ZAhVMo48KHYq3CRU4ChDoAQgyMAM#v=onepage&q=Brajendranath%20De%20-%20Presidency%20College&f=false Mrinalini Sinha, "Reconfiguring Hiararchies: The Ilbert Bill Controversy, 1883-84", in Reina Lewis and Sarah Mills, ''Feminist Post-Colonialist Theory: A Reader'', New York and London, Routledge, 2003, p. 456]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.asiaticsocietycal.com/ The Asiatic Society, Calcutta]

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Brajendranath De

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'''Brajendranath De''' ({{lang-bn|'''ব্রজেন্দ্রনাথ দে'''}}) (23 December, 1852 – 20 September, 1932) ({{lang-bn|১০ পৌষ, ১২৫৯ - ০৪ আশ্বিন, ১৩৩৯}}) was an early Indian member of the Indian Civil Service.<ref name="indiasagawhoswho">[http://indiansaga.com/whoswho/brajendra.html Indiasaga Who's Who]</ref>

==Early life and education==
De, a member of a Kayastha (কায়স্থ) - Brahmo (ব্রাহ্ম) family of Calcutta, was born to Durgadas De (দূর্গাদাস দে), an early student of Hindu College, Calcutta (later renamed Presidency University) and Trailokyamohini Debi (ত্রৈলোক্যমোহিনী দেবী). He studied at [[Hare School]], [[Calcutta]], and then Canning Collegiate School and Canning College, Lucknow,<ref name="Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari'">[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.116007/2015.116007.The-Tabaqat-i-akbari-Of-Khwajah-Nizamuddin-Ahmad-Voliii_djvu.txt Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari']</ref> where he was a pupil of Saiyid Husain Bilgrami.

Later, he travelled to England for his higher studies, joining University College, London to appear in the Open Competitive Services examination. He joined the ICS in 1873,<ref>{{cite book |last=India Office, Great Britain |date=1905 |title=The India List and India Office List 1905 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA447 |publisher=Harrison and Sons |page=447}}</ref> becoming the 8th Indian member of the steel frame.<ref name="womenofindia">Geraldine Forbes, 'Women in Modern India', The New Cambridge History of India, Volume IV.2, (Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 28–29</ref> Subsequently, he was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple on 7 June 1875.<ref>Renu Paul (in consultation with Mitra Sharafi), 'South Asians at the Inns of Court: Middle Temple, 1863-1944', compilation based on H. A. C. Sturgess, (eds.) 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 (1910-44), p. 2.</ref> He was admitted to St. Mary Hall, Oxford, where he spent one year, from 1874-1875, on a Boden Sanskrit Scholarship, attending lectures of Max Mueller and Monier-Williams.<ref name="oxforduniversitycalender">Oxford University Calendar, 1875, p. 366</ref><ref name="bkde'snote"> Note written by his third eldest son, Basanta Kumar De, on the occasion of his mother's 50th death anniversary in 1969.</ref>

His fifth eldest daughter was [[Saroj Nalini Dutt]]<ref name="womenofindia"/> and his third eldest son was [[Basanta Kumar De]], whose son was [[Barun De]].

==Career==
He took up his first posting in the civil service as assistant magistrate and collector of Arrah, Behar in 1875. After serving in a number of districts in Behar, he was posted in Raniganj, Bengal in 1881.<ref>[http://www.mocavo.com/The-New-Annual-Army-List-Militia-List-and-Indian-Civil-Service-List-1881-Volume-1881/393337/783 Military and ICS Manual]</ref> He officiated as the district magistrate and collector of Bankura, Burdwan and Faridpore. He served as the full district magistrate and collector of Khulna, where he was befriended by Dr. Krishnadhan Ghosh, the civil surgeon of the district, and the father of Aurobindo Ghosh.<ref name="sriaurobindo"> Peter Heehs, 'The Lives of Sri Aurobindo', (New York:
Columbia University Press, 2008), p. 33</ref><ref name="governmentnotifications">Government Notifications: Orders by the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, 6 August, 1893, in 'The Liberal and the New Dispensation', Volume XII, Issue 30, Calcutta, R.S. Bhattacharji, p. 9</ref> He became the magistrate and collector of [[Balasore district|Balasore]] in [[Orissa]] and then of [[Malda district|Malda]] and [[Hooghly district|Hooghly]].<ref name="Bengalee">"Mr. B. De", in ''Bengalee'', 7 September 1910; see also ''Indian Daily'' News, 3 September 1910</ref> He was the first Indian to be elected as chairman of the Hooghly Municipal Corporation. He was an (acting) commissioner of the Burdwan Division.<ref name="socialthoughtofrabindranathtagore">Tapati Dutta Gupta, 'Social Thought of Rabindranath Tagore: A Historical Analysis', Abhinav Publications, p. 122, 1993</ref><ref name="liberty">"Late Mr. B. De.: Passing Away of an Old Civilian" in ''Liberty'', Friday, 30 September 1932</ref>

As the district officer of Hooghly, he started the Duke Club there which was meant to be exclusively for Indians.<ref name="britishness">Mrinalini Sinha, 'Britishness, Clubbability, and the Colonial Public Sphere: The Genealogy of an Imperial Institution in Colonial India', in 'The Journal of British Studies', Volume 4, Issue 44, October 2001, pp. 489–521</ref> One of his commissioners once told him not to entertain the thought of wanting to join a British club in the district.<ref name="bodiesincontact">Tony Ballantyne, 'Bodies in Contact', Duke University Press, 2005, p.193</ref>

De retired from active service in 1910.

==Post-Retirement==
After retirement he remained involved in the work of the Calcutta Improvement Trust.<ref name="latemrbdepassingawayofanoldcivilian">'Late Mr. B.De: Passing Away of An Old Civilian' in ''Liberty'', Friday, 30 September 1932</ref><ref name="latemr.b.decalcuttacorporationtributes">"Late Mr. B. De, Calcutta Corporation Tributes", in ''Liberty'', Saturday, 1 October 1932</ref> He served as a vice-president of the council of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta.<ref name="birthcentenaryofbdecelebrated">"Birth Centenary of B.De Celebrated" in ''The Statesman'', Wednesday, 24 December 1952</ref><ref name="latemrbdecelebration">"He Rehabilitated Persian in Bengal: Tributes to Late B.De: Birthday Celebration" in ''Amrita Bazar Patrika'', Wednesday, 24 December 1952</ref>

==Academic==
De translated Kalidasa's 'Vikramorvasi' and 'Manichudabadana' from Sanskrit to English.<ref name="latemrbdepassingawayofanoldcivilian"/> He edited an English-Bengali dictionary<ref name="liberty"/> and published an article on inter dining in the Madras Social Reformer (1910).

He was the translator and editor, in two volumes, of [[Nizamuddin Ahmad]]'s '' The Tabaqat-i-Akbari''. The third volume, which he had left fully prepared, was posthumously published by Baini Prasad and M. Hidayat Hosain.<ref name="mr.b.dedeadretiredmemberofthecivilservice">"Mr.B.De Dead Retired Member of the Civil Service" in ''The Statesman'', 30 September 1932</ref><ref name="thestatusofmuslimwomeninmedievalindia">[https://books.google.com/books?id=yF4lDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT120&lpg=PT120&dq=Tabaqat+i+Akbari+-+Beni+Prasad&source=bl&ots=jpsDUeBIsE&sig=9Z1X7kHfL-B_-mTgLvZz8RuvAiU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJn-XwhNnOAhXLNo8KHV7XDlgQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=Tabaqat%20i%20Akbari%20-%20Beni%20Prasad&f=false Sudha Sharma, ''Status of Muslim Women in Medieval India'', Allahabad]</ref><ref name="Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari'"/>

==Legacy==
A road in Chinsura, the headquarter of Hooghly district<ref name="mapofchinsura">[https://www.google.com/maps/place/B.Dey+Rd,+Hooghly,+West+Bengal+712101/@22.9025053,88.3949378,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x39f893f96abb29e3:0x854c02d1d9d97a7d!8m2!3d22.9025053!4d88.3971265 Map of Chinsura, Hooghly, Bengal]</ref> and a hall in Malda, the headquarter of Malda district<ref name="mapofmalda"> [https://www.google.com/search?q=B.De+Hall%2C+Malda&oq=B.De+Hall%2C+Malda&aqs=chrome..69i57.15054j0j7&client=ms-android-samsung-gj-rev1&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#istate=lrl:mlt&trex=m_r:1,m_t:gwp,rc_q:B.De%2520Hall%252C%2520Malda,rc_ui:1,ru_gwp:0%252C6,ru_q:B.De%2520Hall%252C%2520Malda,trex_id:A9QtDb Map of Malda, Bengal]</ref> are named after him.

==Publications==

*(Ed. & tran.), Kālidāsa's play [[Vikramōrvaśīyam|Vikramorvasi]], Canto I., in ''[[Calcutta Review]]'', Oct. 1884, pp. 440–2.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Schuyler, Jr.|first=Montgomery|title=Bibliography of Kālidāsa's Mālavikāgnimitra and Vikramorvaçī|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|date=1902|volume=23|pages=93–101|jstor=592384|doi=10.2307/592384}}</ref>
* (Ed. & tran.), ''The Tabaqat-i-Akbari of Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmad: A History of India from the Early Musalman Invasions to the Thirty-eighth year of the Reign of Akbar'' (in 3 Vols.), (Calcutta, reprint, 1973)<ref>[http://www.lppindia.com/servlet/lppgetbiblio?bno=000476 Tabaqat-i-Akbari by Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmed]</ref>
* "Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service", in ''Calcutta Review'', (1953–5) (in 3 parts).<ref>[http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/10689/12810/10/Bibliography.pdf Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service' in the Calcutta Review]</ref><ref name="feministpostcolonialisttheory">[https://books.google.com/books?id=ccFuGe-hBt0C&pg=PA456&lpg=PA456&dq=Brajendranath+De+-+Presidency+College&source=bl&ots=K2kq_JjbhL&sig=V-I5vHvmGjlu79Vk2GPSfn-c9QY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD0cvf8u7ZAhVMo48KHYq3CRU4ChDoAQgyMAM#v=onepage&q=Brajendranath%20De%20-%20Presidency%20College&f=false Mrinalini Sinha, "Reconfiguring Hiararchies: The Ilbert Bill Controversy, 1883-84", in Reina Lewis and Sarah Mills, ''Feminist Post-Colonialist Theory: A Reader'', New York and London, Routledge, 2003, p. 456]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.asiaticsocietycal.com/ The Asiatic Society, Calcutta]

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Barun De

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| death_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
| occupation =Historian
| years active =1961-2001
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'''Barun De''' ({{lang-bn|'''বরুণ দে'''}}) (30 October, 1932 – 16 July, 2013) ({{lang-bn|১৩ কার্তিক, ১৩৩৯ - ৩১ আষাঢ়, ১৪২০}}) was an Indian historian and institution builder.

==Early life and education==
De, a member of a Kayastha (কায়স্থ)-Brahmo (ব্রাহ্ম) family of Calcutta<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130718/jsp/calcutta/story_17126553.jsp |title=Historian Barun De dead |date=18 July 2013 |accessdate=2016-08-15}}</ref><ref name="HT20130718">{{cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/kolkata/Historian-Barun-De-passes-away/Article-1094187.aspx |date=18 July 2013 |title=Historian Barun De passes away |publisher=Hindustan Times |accessdate=4 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131010131755/http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/kolkata/Historian-Barun-De-passes-away/Article-1094187.aspx |archivedate=10 October 2013 }}</ref>, was the son of [[Draft: Basanta Kumar De|Basanta Kumar De]]<ref name="frontline1">[http://www.frontline.in/other/obituary/historian-and-administrator/article4995294.ece "Historian and Administrator" - Aniruddha Ray] Retrieved 2015-03-03</ref> and Pramila De (nee Gupta). His grandfather was [[Brajendranath De]].<ref name="vmh">[http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/official_info/victoria_newsletter_feb2014.pdf Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, 'Obituary' in the ''Victoria Memorial Newsletter'', 2014]</ref> He studied at St. Xavier's Collegiate School, Calcutta. He completed his I.A. & B.A. (Honours) in History at Presidency College, Calcutta, where he was a student of [[Susobhan Sarkar|Susobhan Chandra Sarkar]]. He was a debate secretary of the student's union of the college.

De completed his 2nd B.A. (Honours School) at St. Catherine's Society, Oxford, where his tutors were George Holmes and Wilfred Knapp. He completed his D.Phil. thesis on "Henry Dundas and the Government of India, 1784-1801" under the supervision of Colin Cuthbert Davies<ref name="telegraphindia1">
{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130718/jsp/opinion/story_17126533.jsp#.vOvi_Tb9nIU |title=Clio's Disciple |first=Rudrangshu|last=Mukherjee |date=18 July 2013 |accessdate=2015-02-24}}</ref> on a Beit studentship at Nuffield College, Oxford. As the holder of this scholarship he took classes in the college. He was awarded the Curzon Memorial Prize for his essay "Macaulay and India". He was secretary, treasurer and president of the Oxford India Majlis.<ref name="thestatesman1">[http://www.thestatesman.com/news/6074-Historian-Barun-De-dead.html "Historian Barun De dead" - The Statesman, 18 July 2013] Retrieved 2015-03-05.</ref>

After returning from Oxford, he formed a lasting friendship with [[Saiyid Nurul Hasan]].<ref name="thetelegraphindia">{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150405/jsp/opinion/story_12677.jsp#.V7E5UjgkrIU |title=State of Abounding Grace |first=Gopal Krishna|last=Gandhi |date=2015 |accessdate=2016-08-15}}</ref>

==Career==
De was a lecturer at the University of Calcutta, a reader at the University of Burdwan, an associate professor and programme director of the Post-Graduate Programme (later Post-Graduate Diploma in Management) and then professor and senior professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta,<ref name="timesofindia1"/><ref name="businessstandard">[https://www.business-standard.com Rudrangshu Mukherjee, 'Ashok Mitra (1928-2018): A Voice of Dissent with a Tender Heart', Business Standard, 2 May, 2018]</ref> a professor and the founder-director of the [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]], and the honorary state editor of the West Bengal District Gazetteers.<ref name="ihr1">[http://ihr.sagepub.com/content/41/1/147.full.pdf+html "Professor Barun De (1932-2013)" - Sabyasachi Bhattacharya] Indian Historical Review. Retrieved 2015-03-15.</ref>

He has taught and worked at various universities in India and abroad, such as Duke University as visiting associate professor, the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, [[Shimla]], as senior fellow,<ref name="thestatesman1"/> ''Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme'', Paris as ''directeur'', and University of Sydney and University of Milan as visiting professor. He was a delegate to several conferences of the United Nations University held at Madrid, Tokyo, Caracass, Mexico City and Berlin.<ref name="changingidentities"> Barun De, 'Imperialism, Nationalism and the Dialectics of Changing Identity in the Indian Subcontinent', in Joachim Heidrich, (ed.), 'Changing Identities: The Transformation of Asian and African Societies under Colonialism', Papers of a symposium held at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin, 21-22 October, 1993, Studien 1, (Berlin: Verlag Das Arabische Buch, 1994), pp. 61-78</ref>

He was a member of the [[Indian Council of Historical Research]], New Delhi, the Indian Council for Social Science Research, New Delhi, the Executive Council (''Karma Samity'') of Vishva Bharati University, Santiniketan, the West Bengal Higher Education Commission and the Executive Council of the A.N. Sinha Institute, Patna. He was secretary, sectional president and general president of the Indian History Congress.<ref name="frontline1"/>

De formally retired from service in 1993.

==Post-retirement==

Soon after his retirement De was once again appointed as director of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta. From 1997-1998, he was Maulana Abul Kalam Azad fellow
of this institute.<ref name="telegraphindia1"/> He was a member of the Indian Council of Cultural Relations in this period. From 1998-2001 he held the India Chair (in the rank of minister-counsellor), with attachment to the Indian Embassy of Uzbekistan, at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent.<ref name="businessstandard1">[http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/historian-barun-de-dies-at-80-113071700809_1.html "Historian Barun De dies at 80" - Business Standard] Retrieved 2015-03-06.</ref>

After returning to India he was made a member of the textbook review committee of the National Council for Educational Research and Training (2004).<ref>[http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/arjun-singh-appoints-panel-to-review-ncert-textbooks/1/196584.html ''India Today'', 2004]</ref> He became chairman of the West Bengal State Archives, Calcutta,<ref name="businessstandard1"/> vice president of the Center for Archaeology and Training, Calcutta, vice president of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,<ref name="frontline1"/>
member of the Board of Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta,<ref name="frontline1"/>, and member of the Court of Vishva Bharati University, Santiniketan.

He was a member of the Heritage Conservation Committee of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, in which capacity he contributed to the preparation of a list of heritage buildings of West Bengal.<ref>[https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/downloads/Graded_List_of_Heritage_Buildings_Grade_I_IIA_IIB.pdf "Heritage Conservation Committee"] p. 3. Retrieved 2015-03-23</ref> ''[[The Times of India]]'' has described him as "a pioneer of the heritage movement of West Bengal".<ref name="timesofindia1">[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Historian-scholar-Barun-De-dies-at-80/articleshow/21156245.cms "The Times of India" - Staff Reporter] Retrieved 2015-02-27.</ref> From 2001-2008 he was member of the West Bengal Heritage Commission, of which he was the honorary chairman (in the rank of minister-of-state) from 2008-2011.<ref name="businessstandard1"/>

From 2011-2013 he was the Tagore national fellow, which he held at the Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta.<ref name="victoriamemorialnewsletter1">[http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/official_info/victoria_newsletter_feb2014.pdf "Obituary" in the ''Victoria Memorial Newsletter'' - Sabyasachi Bhattacharya] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226153443/http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/official_info/victoria_newsletter_feb2014.pdf |date=2015-02-26 }} Retrieved 2015-0317.</ref>

==Research==
De's research spanned from early to late modern period of Indian history. In the early half of his career he wrote on Henry Dundas and the conquest of India. Later, he addressed the Marxist critique of the colonial context of the Bengal renaissance.<ref>[http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/a-great-conversationalist-intellectual/article4925060.ece "A Conversationalist Intellectual - Sugata Bose"] Retrieved 2015-03-27.</ref>

He was also concerned with India's national movement. His popular textbook, ''Freedom Struggle'', co-authored with [[Bipan Chandra]] and Amalesh Tripathi,<ref name="telegraphindia1"/> was censored by the Indian government in 1977,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=4DlMSrtOGLIC&pg=PA272 "Censorship of Historical Thought: A World Guide" - Antoon de Baets] Retrieved 2015-02-21.</ref> although he was well-known for his criticism of India's first emergency.<ref name="proceedingsoftheindianhistorycongress">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44156392?seq=1&loggedin=true#page_scan_tab_contents Irfan Habib, "Professor Barun De (1932-2013)" in ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', Vol. 73, 2012, p. 1554]</ref> This book has been translated into Bengali by Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya.<ref>[http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article4385.html "Historian Barun De passes away - Panchanan Chattopadhyay"]. ''Mainstreamweekly''. Retrieved 2015-03-23.</ref>

In 1975, he edited a volume in honour of Susobhan Chandra Sarkar, in which he wrote the main essay that reveals his preference for objectivity and critical analysis.<ref name="proceedingsoftheindianhistorycongress1">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44156392?seq=2&loggedin=true#page_scan_tab_contents Irfan Habib, "Professor Barun De (1932-2013)" in ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', Volume 73, 2012, p. 1554]</ref> He edited the 24 Parganas and Darjeeling ''District Gazetteers''<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> and contributed to the editing of the Jalpaiguri District Gazetteers too.<ref name="districtgazetteers1">[https://books.google.com/books?id=UfToffd1KxMC&pg=PA201&lpg=PA201&dq=Barun+De,+Jalpaiguri+district+gazetteers&source=bl&ots=LCjhrE6fY2&sig=Rw9AXjtY445QnVTRA6XHXnuaZpU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjWy5HlxfzaAhXIqo8KHROuAZMQ6AEIQzAF#v=onepage&q=Barun%20De%2C%20Jalpaiguri%20district%20gazetteers&f=false Abani Mohan Kusari, West Bengal District GazetteersL Jalpaiguri, Gazetteer of India, Calcutta, Barun De, Honorary State Editor, West Bengal District Gazetteers, Calcutta, 1981 in Michael Lampert, Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012].</ref>

==Awards==
*D.Litt. (''Honouris Causa''), North Bengal University, 2000.<ref name="jagranjosh">[http://www.jagranjosh.com/current-affairs/barun-de-the-renowned-historian-and-academician-passed-away-at-80-1377577861-1 Akanksha Sharma, 'Barun De, The Renowned Historian and Academician Passed Away at 80' in ''Jagran Josh'', 17 July 2013]</ref>

*Banga Samman, 2008-09

==Legacy==

After De's death the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta had instituted a memorial lecture in his name.<ref>[http://makaias.gov.in/Programme_BarunDe_Memorial_Lecture1.pdf Barun De Memorial Lecture] Retrieved 2015-02-27.</ref> The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta has renamed its auditorium at the Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre after him.<ref name="jadunathbhavan">[http://jbmrc.cssscal.org/remembering-professor-barun-de/ Barun De Auditorium, CSSSC]</ref>

==Publications==

*''Secularism at Bay: Uzbekistan at the Turn of the Century'' (New Delhi, 2006)<ref>[https://books.google.com/books/about/Secularism_at_Bay.html?id=TjE74t1I9NsC&redir_esc=y "Secularism at Bay: Uzbekistan at the Turn of the Century" - Barun De] Retrieved 2015-02-17.</ref>
*(ed.) ''State, Development and Political Culture: Bangladesh and India'', (New Delhi, 1997) (co-edited with Ranabir Samaddar)
*(সম্পাদক) 'মুক্তি সংগ্রামে বাংলার ছাত্র-সমাজ' (কলকাতা, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ ইতিহাস সংসদ, ১৯৯২) (''Students of Bengal in the Struggle of Liberation'', Paschim Banga Itihas Samsad, 1992)
*(ed.) ''West Bengal District Gazetteers, 24 Parganas'', (Calcutta, 1983)
*(ed.) ''West Bengal District Gazetteers, Jalpaiguri'', (Calcutta, 1981) (co-edited with Abani Mohan Kusari).
*(ed.) ''West Bengal District Gazetteers, Darjeeling'', (Calcutta, 1980)
*''The Dialectics Between Response to Exogenous and Autochthonous Innovation in India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, with Special Reference to Modern Bengal'', (Tokyo: United Nations University, 1979)<ref name="unu">[https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1713550 The Dialectics Between Response to Exogenous and Autochthonous Innovation in India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, with Special Reference to Modern Bengal - Barun De] Retrieved 2018-01-12.</ref>
*(ed.) ''Perspectives in Social Sciences, 1: Historical Dimensions'' (New Delhi, 1977)<ref name="perspectivesinsocialscienceihistoricaldimensions">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/2055079?seq=1 David L.Curley (reviewer), ''Perspectives in Social Sciences I: Historical Dimension'', in ''The Journal of Asian Studies'', Vol. 40, No. 1, (Nov. 1980), pp. 158–60]</ref><ref name="perspectivesinsocialscienceshistoricaldimensions1">[https://books.google.com/books?id=GHxJDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT234&lpg=PT234&dq=Barun+De&source=bl&ots=X75XMnufBq&sig=zpY72FIOO7UfU3rH8I71SAT1GPc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi1qJrP29vZAhXHPo8KHZP4DMM4FBDoAQhDMAg#v=onepage&q=Barun%20De&f=false Chandak Sengoopta, ''The Rays before Satyajit: Creativity and Modernity in Colonial India'', (New Delhi, Oxford, 2016)]</ref>
* "A Biographical Perspective on the Political and Economic Ideas of Rammohun Ray", in V.C.Joshi, (ed.), ''Rammohun Roy and the Process of Modernisation in India'', New Delhi, 1975<ref name="indianpoliticalthought">[https://books.google.com/books?id=yP59iDghcIkC&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=Barun+De&source=bl&ots=JEIKcyzgDB&sig=bHJMaKGdoWOXXD6JRAzKMD9DZLY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiKyazs3tvZAhUUTo8KHXDCCMM4HhDoAQg1MAQ#v=onepage&q=Barun%20De&f=false Amiya P. Sen, "Rammohan Roy", in Mahendra Prasad Singh and Himanshu Roy, ''Indian Political Thought: Themes and Thinkers'', (Delhi, Pearson, 2011), p. 68]</ref>
*(ed.) ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', (Calcutta: Jadavpur Session, 1974)
*(ed.) ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', (Aligarh: Aligarh Session, 1975)
*(et al. eds.) ''Essays in Honour of Professor Sushobhan Chandra Sarkar'' (New Delhi, 1975)<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=xJgDawlnknwC&pg=PA190 "Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital: Rural Bengal since 1770" - Sugata Bose] 2015-02-19.</ref>
*''Freedom Struggle'' (New Delhi, 1972), (co-authored with [[Bipan Chandra]] and Amalesh Tripathi)<ref>[https://www.amazon.in/Freedom-Struggle-Bipan-Chandra/dp/8123702493 "Freedom Struggle" - Bipan Chandra, Amalesh Tripathi and Barun De] Retrieved 2015-02-18.</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.cssscal.org/ Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]
*[http://www.makaias.gov.in/ Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta]

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Basanta Kumar De

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'''Basanta Kumar De''' ({{lang-bn|'''বসন্ত কুমার দে'''}}) (9 March, 1897 - 31 August, 1975) ({{lang-bn|২৭ ফাল্গুন, ১৩০৩ - ১৪ ভাদ্র, ১৩৮২}}) 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><ref name="frontline1"/>

==Early Life and education==
De, who was a member of a Kayastha (কায়স্থ)-Brahmo (ব্রাহ্ম) family of Calcutta, was the third son of [[Brajendranath De]] and Nagendranandini De (née Bose).
<ref name="awomanofindia">Gurusaday Dutt, '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><ref name="সরোজনলিনী">রাজীব কুন্ডু, 'সরোজনলিনী: সংখিপ্ত জীবনি', (অবভাস, কলকাতা, ২০১৪) (Rajib Kundu, 'Saroj Nalini: Shankhipta Jibani', Ababhash, Kolkata, 2014),</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. Later, he was admitted to The Honourable Society of the 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 [[Barun De]].<ref name="frontline1">[https://frontline.thehindu.com/other/obituary/historian-and-administrator/article4995294.ece Aniruddha Ray, "Historian and Administrator", 'Frontline', 2013] Retrieved 2015-03-03</ref><ref name="districtgazetteers"/>

==Career==
De was recruited into the Commercial Department of the BNR in London in 1921.<ref name="bdeletterfromloudenstreet"> Letter from Brajendranath De on 9th September, 1921 from 22, Louden Street, Calcutta to his son-in-law, Gurusaday Dutt, then living in London. Letter, from G.S. Dutt archive, is with his (Dutt's) grandson, Devsaday Dutt.</ref><ref name="oralhistory"/> 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. Memoir manuscript in the custody of De's grandson, Barun De's, library.</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 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 Kharagpore, Waltair,<ref name="20,theatreroadletter">Letter from Brajendranath De of 20, Theatre Road, Calcutta to Paresh Chandra Datta and Sarasi Nalini Datta, then living in England, dated 26th March, 1931. Letter in the custody of Barun De's library.</ref> Nainpur and Adra.<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> 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"/>

In the 1940s, he served as regional controller of railway priorities 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. Memorandum in the custody of Barun De's library.</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 Museum]],<ref name="gurusadaymuseum">[https://www.museumsofindia.org Gurusaday Museum]</ref> 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.

==Legacy==

Approximately 2, 000 photographs of De's family, held by him, have been given, on loan, to the photographic archive of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta in 2001.<ref name="epw1">[http://thankstoepw.blogspot.in/2013/09/barun-de-situating-eminent-historian.html "Situating an Eminent Historian Eminently" - Sabyasachi Bhattacharya] Retrieved 2015-03-21.</ref> After the archive was shifted to the newly established Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre
of the CSSSC in 2009, the photographs were deposited there.<ref name="jsrchr"> Brochure entitled Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, 2009), p. 7</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==

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

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Brajendranath De

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'''Brajendranath De''' ({{lang-bn|'''ব্রজেন্দ্রনাথ দে'''}}) (23 December, 1852 – 20 September, 1932) ({{lang-bn|১০ পৌষ, ১২৫৯ - ০৪ আশ্বিন, ১৩৩৯}}) was an early Indian member of the Indian Civil Service.<ref name="indiasagawhoswho">[http://indiansaga.com/whoswho/brajendra.html Indiasaga Who's Who]</ref>

==Early life and education==
De, a member of a Kayastha (কায়স্থ) - Brahmo (ব্রাহ্ম) family of Calcutta, was born to Durgadas De (দূর্গাদাস দে), an early student of Hindu College, Calcutta (later renamed Presidency University) and Trailokyamohini Debi (ত্রৈলোক্যমোহিনী দেবী). He studied at [[Hare School]], [[Calcutta]], and then Canning Collegiate School and Canning College, Lucknow,<ref name="Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari'">[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.116007/2015.116007.The-Tabaqat-i-akbari-Of-Khwajah-Nizamuddin-Ahmad-Voliii_djvu.txt Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari']</ref> where he was a pupil of Saiyid Husain Bilgrami.

Later, he travelled to England for his higher studies, joining University College, London to appear in the Open Competitive Services examination. He joined the ICS in 1873,<ref>{{cite book |last=India Office, Great Britain |date=1905 |title=The India List and India Office List 1905 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA447 |publisher=Harrison and Sons |page=447}}</ref> becoming the 8th Indian member of the steel frame.<ref name="womenofindia">Geraldine Forbes, 'Women in Modern India', The New Cambridge History of India, Volume IV.2, (Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 28–29</ref> Subsequently, he was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple on 7 June 1875.<ref>Renu Paul (in consultation with Mitra Sharafi), 'South Asians at the Inns of Court: Middle Temple, 1863-1944', compilation based on H. A. C. Sturgess, (eds.) 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 (1910-44), p. 2.</ref> He was admitted to St. Mary Hall, Oxford, where he spent one year, from 1874-1875, on a Boden Sanskrit Scholarship, attending lectures of Max Mueller and Monier-Williams.<ref name="oxforduniversitycalender">Oxford University Calendar, 1875, p. 366</ref><ref name="bkde'snote"> Note written by his third eldest son, Basanta Kumar De, on the occasion of his mother's 50th death anniversary in 1969.</ref>

His fifth eldest daughter was [[Saroj Nalini Dutt]]<ref name="womenofindia"/> and his third eldest son was [[Basanta Kumar De]], whose son was [[Barun De]].

==Career==
He took up his first posting in the civil service as assistant magistrate and collector of Arrah, Behar in 1875. After serving in a number of districts in Behar, he was posted in Raniganj, Bengal in 1881.<ref>[http://www.mocavo.com/The-New-Annual-Army-List-Militia-List-and-Indian-Civil-Service-List-1881-Volume-1881/393337/783 Military and ICS Manual]</ref> He officiated as the district magistrate and collector of Bankura, Burdwan and Faridpore. He served as the full district magistrate and collector of Khulna, where he was befriended by Dr. Krishnadhan Ghosh, the civil surgeon of the district, and the father of Aurobindo Ghosh.<ref name="sriaurobindo"> Peter Heehs, 'The Lives of Sri Aurobindo', (New York:
Columbia University Press, 2008), p. 33</ref><ref name="governmentnotifications">Government Notifications: Orders by the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, 6 August, 1893, in 'The Liberal and the New Dispensation', Volume XII, Issue 30, Calcutta, R.S. Bhattacharji, p. 9</ref> He became the magistrate and collector of [[Balasore district|Balasore]] in [[Orissa]] and then of [[Malda district|Malda]] and [[Hooghly district|Hooghly]].<ref name="Bengalee">"Mr. B. De", in ''Bengalee'', 7 September 1910; see also ''Indian Daily'' News, 3 September 1910</ref> He was the first Indian to be elected as chairman of the Hooghly Municipal Corporation. He was an (acting) commissioner of the Burdwan Division.<ref name="socialthoughtofrabindranathtagore">Tapati Dutta Gupta, 'Social Thought of Rabindranath Tagore: A Historical Analysis', Abhinav Publications, p. 122, 1993</ref><ref name="liberty">"Late Mr. B. De.: Passing Away of an Old Civilian" in ''Liberty'', Friday, 30 September 1932</ref>

As the district officer of Hooghly, he started the Duke Club there which was meant to be exclusively for Indians.<ref name="britishness">Mrinalini Sinha, 'Britishness, Clubbability, and the Colonial Public Sphere: The Genealogy of an Imperial Institution in Colonial India', in 'The Journal of British Studies', Volume 4, Issue 44, October 2001, pp. 489–521</ref> One of his commissioners once told him not to entertain the thought of wanting to join a British club in the district.<ref name="bodiesincontact">Tony Ballantyne, 'Bodies in Contact', Duke University Press, 2005, p.193</ref>

De retired from active service in 1910.

==Post-Retirement==
After retirement he remained involved in the work of the Calcutta Improvement Trust.<ref name="latemrbdepassingawayofanoldcivilian">'Late Mr. B.De: Passing Away of An Old Civilian' in ''Liberty'', Friday, 30 September 1932</ref><ref name="latemr.b.decalcuttacorporationtributes">"Late Mr. B. De, Calcutta Corporation Tributes", in ''Liberty'', Saturday, 1 October 1932</ref> He served as a vice-president of the council of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta.<ref name="birthcentenaryofbdecelebrated">"Birth Centenary of B.De Celebrated" in ''The Statesman'', Wednesday, 24 December 1952</ref><ref name="latemrbdecelebration">"He Rehabilitated Persian in Bengal: Tributes to Late B.De: Birthday Celebration" in ''Amrita Bazar Patrika'', Wednesday, 24 December 1952</ref>

==Academic==
De translated Kalidasa's 'Vikramorvasi' and 'Manichudabadana' from Sanskrit to English.<ref name="latemrbdepassingawayofanoldcivilian"/> He edited an English-Bengali dictionary<ref name="liberty"/> and published an article on inter dining in the Madras Social Reformer (1910).

He was the translator and editor, in two volumes, of [[Nizamuddin Ahmad]]'s '' The Tabaqat-i-Akbari''. The third volume, which he had left fully prepared, was posthumously published by Baini Prasad and M. Hidayat Hosain.<ref name="mr.b.dedeadretiredmemberofthecivilservice">"Mr.B.De Dead Retired Member of the Civil Service" in ''The Statesman'', 30 September 1932</ref><ref name="thestatusofmuslimwomeninmedievalindia">[https://books.google.com/books?id=yF4lDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT120&lpg=PT120&dq=Tabaqat+i+Akbari+-+Beni+Prasad&source=bl&ots=jpsDUeBIsE&sig=9Z1X7kHfL-B_-mTgLvZz8RuvAiU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJn-XwhNnOAhXLNo8KHV7XDlgQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=Tabaqat%20i%20Akbari%20-%20Beni%20Prasad&f=false Sudha Sharma, ''Status of Muslim Women in Medieval India'', Allahabad]</ref><ref name="Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari'"/>

==Legacy==
A road in Chinsura, the headquarter of Hooghly district<ref name="mapofchinsura">[https://www.google.com/maps/place/B.Dey+Rd,+Hooghly,+West+Bengal+712101/@22.9025053,88.3949378,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x39f893f96abb29e3:0x854c02d1d9d97a7d!8m2!3d22.9025053!4d88.3971265 Map of Chinsura, Hooghly, Bengal]</ref> and a hall in Malda, the headquarter of Malda district<ref name="mapofmalda"> [https://www.google.com/search?q=B.De+Hall%2C+Malda&oq=B.De+Hall%2C+Malda&aqs=chrome..69i57.15054j0j7&client=ms-android-samsung-gj-rev1&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#istate=lrl:mlt&trex=m_r:1,m_t:gwp,rc_q:B.De%2520Hall%252C%2520Malda,rc_ui:1,ru_gwp:0%252C6,ru_q:B.De%2520Hall%252C%2520Malda,trex_id:A9QtDb Map of Malda, Bengal]</ref> are named after him.

==Publications==

*(Ed. & tran.), Kālidāsa's play [[Vikramōrvaśīyam|Vikramorvasi]], Canto I., in ''[[Calcutta Review]]'', Oct. 1884, pp. 440–2.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Schuyler, Jr.|first=Montgomery|title=Bibliography of Kālidāsa's Mālavikāgnimitra and Vikramorvaçī|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|date=1902|volume=23|pages=93–101|jstor=592384|doi=10.2307/592384}}</ref>
* (Ed. & tran.), ''The Tabaqat-i-Akbari of Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmad: A History of India from the Early Musalman Invasions to the Thirty-eighth year of the Reign of Akbar'' (in 3 Vols.), (Calcutta, reprint, 1973)<ref>[http://www.lppindia.com/servlet/lppgetbiblio?bno=000476 Tabaqat-i-Akbari by Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmed]</ref>
* "Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service", in ''Calcutta Review'', (1953–5) (in 3 parts).<ref>[http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/10689/12810/10/Bibliography.pdf Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service' in the Calcutta Review]</ref><ref name="feministpostcolonialisttheory">[https://books.google.com/books?id=ccFuGe-hBt0C&pg=PA456&lpg=PA456&dq=Brajendranath+De+-+Presidency+College&source=bl&ots=K2kq_JjbhL&sig=V-I5vHvmGjlu79Vk2GPSfn-c9QY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD0cvf8u7ZAhVMo48KHYq3CRU4ChDoAQgyMAM#v=onepage&q=Brajendranath%20De%20-%20Presidency%20College&f=false Mrinalini Sinha, "Reconfiguring Hiararchies: The Ilbert Bill Controversy, 1883-84", in Reina Lewis and Sarah Mills, ''Feminist Post-Colonialist Theory: A Reader'', New York and London, Routledge, 2003, p. 456]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.asiaticsocietycal.com/ The Asiatic Society, Calcutta]

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Basanta Kumar De

2022-02-08T03:53:15Z

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'''Basanta Kumar De''' ({{lang-bn|'''বসন্ত কুমার দে'''}}) (9 March, 1897 - 31 August, 1975) ({{lang-bn|২৭ ফাল্গুন, ১৩০৩ - ১৪ ভাদ্র, ১৩৮২}}) 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><ref name="frontline1"/>

==Early Life and education==
De, who was a member of a Kayastha-Brahmo family of Calcutta, was the third son of [[Brajendranath De]] and Nagendranandini De (née Bose).
<ref name="awomanofindia">Gurusaday Dutt, '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><ref name="সরোজনলিনী">রাজীব কুন্ডু, 'সরোজনলিনী: সংখিপ্ত জীবনি', (অবভাস, কলকাতা, ২০১৪) (Rajib Kundu, 'Saroj Nalini: Shankhipta Jibani', Ababhash, Kolkata, 2014),</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. Later, he was admitted to The Honourable Society of the 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 [[Barun De]].<ref name="frontline1">[https://frontline.thehindu.com/other/obituary/historian-and-administrator/article4995294.ece Aniruddha Ray, "Historian and Administrator", 'Frontline', 2013] Retrieved 2015-03-03</ref><ref name="districtgazetteers"/>

==Career==
De was recruited into the Commercial Department of the BNR in London in 1921.<ref name="bdeletterfromloudenstreet"> Letter from Brajendranath De on 9th September, 1921 from 22, Louden Street, Calcutta to his son-in-law, Gurusaday Dutt, then living in London. Letter, from G.S. Dutt archive, is with his (Dutt's) grandson, Devsaday Dutt.</ref><ref name="oralhistory"/> 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. Memoir manuscript in the custody of De's grandson, Barun De's, library.</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 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 Kharagpore, Waltair,<ref name="20,theatreroadletter">Letter from Brajendranath De of 20, Theatre Road, Calcutta to Paresh Chandra Datta and Sarasi Nalini Datta, then living in England, dated 26th March, 1931. Letter in the custody of Barun De's library.</ref> Nainpur and Adra.<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> 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"/>

In the 1940s, he served as regional controller of railway priorities 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. Memorandum in the custody of Barun De's library.</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 Museum]],<ref name="gurusadaymuseum">[https://www.museumsofindia.org Gurusaday Museum]</ref> 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.

==Legacy==

Approximately 2, 000 photographs of De's family, held by him, have been given, on loan, to the photographic archive of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta in 2001.<ref name="epw1">[http://thankstoepw.blogspot.in/2013/09/barun-de-situating-eminent-historian.html "Situating an Eminent Historian Eminently" - Sabyasachi Bhattacharya] Retrieved 2015-03-21.</ref> After the archive was shifted to the newly established Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre
of the CSSSC in 2009, the photographs were deposited there.<ref name="jsrchr"> Brochure entitled Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, 2009), p. 7</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==

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

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Brajendranath De

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'''Brajendranath De''' ({{lang-bn|'''ব্রজেন্দ্রনাথ দে'''}}) (23 December, 1852 – 20 September, 1932) ({{lang-bn|১০ পৌষ, ১২৫৯ - ০৪ আশ্বিন, ১৩৩৯}}) was an early Indian member of the Indian Civil Service.<ref name="indiasagawhoswho">[http://indiansaga.com/whoswho/brajendra.html Indiasaga Who's Who]</ref>

==Early life and education==
De, a member of a Kayastha-Brahmo family of Calcutta, was born to Durgadas De (দূর্গাদাস দে), an early student of Hindu College, Calcutta (later renamed Presidency University) and Trailokyamohini Debi (ত্রৈলোক্যমোহিনী দেবী). He studied at [[Hare School]], [[Calcutta]], and then Canning Collegiate School and Canning College, Lucknow,<ref name="Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari'">[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.116007/2015.116007.The-Tabaqat-i-akbari-Of-Khwajah-Nizamuddin-Ahmad-Voliii_djvu.txt Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari']</ref> where he was a pupil of Saiyid Husain Bilgrami.

Later, he travelled to England for his higher studies, joining University College, London to appear in the Open Competitive Services examination. He joined the ICS in 1873,<ref>{{cite book |last=India Office, Great Britain |date=1905 |title=The India List and India Office List 1905 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA447 |publisher=Harrison and Sons |page=447}}</ref> becoming the 8th Indian member of the steel frame.<ref name="womenofindia">Geraldine Forbes, 'Women in Modern India', The New Cambridge History of India, Volume IV.2, (Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 28–29</ref> Subsequently, he was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple on 7 June 1875.<ref>Renu Paul (in consultation with Mitra Sharafi), 'South Asians at the Inns of Court: Middle Temple, 1863-1944', compilation based on H. A. C. Sturgess, (eds.) 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 (1910-44), p. 2.</ref> He was admitted to St. Mary Hall, Oxford, where he spent one year, from 1874-1875, on a Boden Sanskrit Scholarship, attending lectures of Max Mueller and Monier-Williams.<ref name="oxforduniversitycalender">Oxford University Calendar, 1875, p. 366</ref><ref name="bkde'snote"> Note written by his third eldest son, Basanta Kumar De, on the occasion of his mother's 50th death anniversary in 1969.</ref>

His fifth eldest daughter was [[Saroj Nalini Dutt]]<ref name="womenofindia"/> and his third eldest son was [[Basanta Kumar De]], whose son was [[Barun De]].

==Career==
He took up his first posting in the civil service as assistant magistrate and collector of Arrah, Behar in 1875. After serving in a number of districts in Behar, he was posted in Raniganj, Bengal in 1881.<ref>[http://www.mocavo.com/The-New-Annual-Army-List-Militia-List-and-Indian-Civil-Service-List-1881-Volume-1881/393337/783 Military and ICS Manual]</ref> He officiated as the district magistrate and collector of Bankura, Burdwan and Faridpore. He served as the full district magistrate and collector of Khulna, where he was befriended by Dr. Krishnadhan Ghosh, the civil surgeon of the district, and the father of Aurobindo Ghosh.<ref name="sriaurobindo"> Peter Heehs, 'The Lives of Sri Aurobindo', (New York:
Columbia University Press, 2008), p. 33</ref><ref name="governmentnotifications">Government Notifications: Orders by the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, 6 August, 1893, in 'The Liberal and the New Dispensation', Volume XII, Issue 30, Calcutta, R.S. Bhattacharji, p. 9</ref> He became the magistrate and collector of [[Balasore district|Balasore]] in [[Orissa]] and then of [[Malda district|Malda]] and [[Hooghly district|Hooghly]].<ref name="Bengalee">"Mr. B. De", in ''Bengalee'', 7 September 1910; see also ''Indian Daily'' News, 3 September 1910</ref> He was the first Indian to be elected as chairman of the Hooghly Municipal Corporation. He was an (acting) commissioner of the Burdwan Division.<ref name="socialthoughtofrabindranathtagore">Tapati Dutta Gupta, 'Social Thought of Rabindranath Tagore: A Historical Analysis', Abhinav Publications, p. 122, 1993</ref><ref name="liberty">"Late Mr. B. De.: Passing Away of an Old Civilian" in ''Liberty'', Friday, 30 September 1932</ref>

As the district officer of Hooghly, he started the Duke Club there which was meant to be exclusively for Indians.<ref name="britishness">Mrinalini Sinha, 'Britishness, Clubbability, and the Colonial Public Sphere: The Genealogy of an Imperial Institution in Colonial India', in 'The Journal of British Studies', Volume 4, Issue 44, October 2001, pp. 489–521</ref> One of his commissioners once told him not to entertain the thought of wanting to join a British club in the district.<ref name="bodiesincontact">Tony Ballantyne, 'Bodies in Contact', Duke University Press, 2005, p.193</ref>

De retired from active service in 1910.

==Post-Retirement==
After retirement he remained involved in the work of the Calcutta Improvement Trust.<ref name="latemrbdepassingawayofanoldcivilian">'Late Mr. B.De: Passing Away of An Old Civilian' in ''Liberty'', Friday, 30 September 1932</ref><ref name="latemr.b.decalcuttacorporationtributes">"Late Mr. B. De, Calcutta Corporation Tributes", in ''Liberty'', Saturday, 1 October 1932</ref> He served as a vice-president of the council of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta.<ref name="birthcentenaryofbdecelebrated">"Birth Centenary of B.De Celebrated" in ''The Statesman'', Wednesday, 24 December 1952</ref><ref name="latemrbdecelebration">"He Rehabilitated Persian in Bengal: Tributes to Late B.De: Birthday Celebration" in ''Amrita Bazar Patrika'', Wednesday, 24 December 1952</ref>

==Academic==
De translated Kalidasa's 'Vikramorvasi' and 'Manichudabadana' from Sanskrit to English.<ref name="latemrbdepassingawayofanoldcivilian"/> He edited an English-Bengali dictionary<ref name="liberty"/> and published an article on inter dining in the Madras Social Reformer (1910).

He was the translator and editor, in two volumes, of [[Nizamuddin Ahmad]]'s '' The Tabaqat-i-Akbari''. The third volume, which he had left fully prepared, was posthumously published by Baini Prasad and M. Hidayat Hosain.<ref name="mr.b.dedeadretiredmemberofthecivilservice">"Mr.B.De Dead Retired Member of the Civil Service" in ''The Statesman'', 30 September 1932</ref><ref name="thestatusofmuslimwomeninmedievalindia">[https://books.google.com/books?id=yF4lDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT120&lpg=PT120&dq=Tabaqat+i+Akbari+-+Beni+Prasad&source=bl&ots=jpsDUeBIsE&sig=9Z1X7kHfL-B_-mTgLvZz8RuvAiU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJn-XwhNnOAhXLNo8KHV7XDlgQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=Tabaqat%20i%20Akbari%20-%20Beni%20Prasad&f=false Sudha Sharma, ''Status of Muslim Women in Medieval India'', Allahabad]</ref><ref name="Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari'"/>

==Legacy==
A road in Chinsura, the headquarter of Hooghly district<ref name="mapofchinsura">[https://www.google.com/maps/place/B.Dey+Rd,+Hooghly,+West+Bengal+712101/@22.9025053,88.3949378,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x39f893f96abb29e3:0x854c02d1d9d97a7d!8m2!3d22.9025053!4d88.3971265 Map of Chinsura, Hooghly, Bengal]</ref> and a hall in Malda, the headquarter of Malda district<ref name="mapofmalda"> [https://www.google.com/search?q=B.De+Hall%2C+Malda&oq=B.De+Hall%2C+Malda&aqs=chrome..69i57.15054j0j7&client=ms-android-samsung-gj-rev1&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#istate=lrl:mlt&trex=m_r:1,m_t:gwp,rc_q:B.De%2520Hall%252C%2520Malda,rc_ui:1,ru_gwp:0%252C6,ru_q:B.De%2520Hall%252C%2520Malda,trex_id:A9QtDb Map of Malda, Bengal]</ref> are named after him.

==Publications==

*(Ed. & tran.), Kālidāsa's play [[Vikramōrvaśīyam|Vikramorvasi]], Canto I., in ''[[Calcutta Review]]'', Oct. 1884, pp. 440–2.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Schuyler, Jr.|first=Montgomery|title=Bibliography of Kālidāsa's Mālavikāgnimitra and Vikramorvaçī|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|date=1902|volume=23|pages=93–101|jstor=592384|doi=10.2307/592384}}</ref>
* (Ed. & tran.), ''The Tabaqat-i-Akbari of Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmad: A History of India from the Early Musalman Invasions to the Thirty-eighth year of the Reign of Akbar'' (in 3 Vols.), (Calcutta, reprint, 1973)<ref>[http://www.lppindia.com/servlet/lppgetbiblio?bno=000476 Tabaqat-i-Akbari by Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmed]</ref>
* "Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service", in ''Calcutta Review'', (1953–5) (in 3 parts).<ref>[http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/10689/12810/10/Bibliography.pdf Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service' in the Calcutta Review]</ref><ref name="feministpostcolonialisttheory">[https://books.google.com/books?id=ccFuGe-hBt0C&pg=PA456&lpg=PA456&dq=Brajendranath+De+-+Presidency+College&source=bl&ots=K2kq_JjbhL&sig=V-I5vHvmGjlu79Vk2GPSfn-c9QY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD0cvf8u7ZAhVMo48KHYq3CRU4ChDoAQgyMAM#v=onepage&q=Brajendranath%20De%20-%20Presidency%20College&f=false Mrinalini Sinha, "Reconfiguring Hiararchies: The Ilbert Bill Controversy, 1883-84", in Reina Lewis and Sarah Mills, ''Feminist Post-Colonialist Theory: A Reader'', New York and London, Routledge, 2003, p. 456]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.asiaticsocietycal.com/ The Asiatic Society, Calcutta]

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Brajendranath De

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'''Brajendranath De''' ({{lang-bn|'''ব্রজেন্দ্রনাথ দে'''}}) (23 December, 1852 – 20 September, 1932) ({{lang-bn|১০ পৌষ, ১২৫৯ - ০৪ আশ্বিন, ১৩৩৯}}) was an early Indian member of the Indian Civil Service.<ref name="indiasagawhoswho">[http://indiansaga.com/whoswho/brajendra.html Indiasaga Who's Who]</ref>

==Early life and education==
De, a member of a Kayastha-Brahmo family of Calcutta, was born to Durgadas De (দূর্গাদাস দে), an early student of Hindu College, Calcutta (later renamed Presidency University) and Trailokyamohini Debi (ত্রৈলোক্যমোহিনী দেবী). He studied at [[Hare School]], [[Calcutta]], and then Canning Collegiate School and Canning College, Lucknow,<ref name="Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari'">[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.116007/2015.116007.The-Tabaqat-i-akbari-Of-Khwajah-Nizamuddin-Ahmad-Voliii_djvu.txt Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari']</ref> where he was a pupil of Saiyid Husain Bilgrami.

Later, he travelled to England for his higher studies, joining University College, London to appear in the Open Competitive Services examination. He joined the ICS in 1873,<ref>{{cite book |last=India Office, Great Britain |date=1905 |title=The India List and India Office List 1905 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA447 |publisher=Harrison and Sons |page=447}}</ref> becoming the 8th Indian member of the steel frame.<ref name="womenofindia">Geraldine Forbes, 'Women in Modern India', The New Cambridge History of India, Volume IV.2, (Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 28–29</ref> Subsequently, he was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple on 7 June 1875.<ref>Renu Paul (in consultation with Mitra Sharafi), 'South Asians at the Inns of Court: Middle Temple, 1863-1944', compilation based on H. A. C. Sturgess, (eds.) 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 (1910-44), p. 2.</ref> He was admitted to St. Mary Hall, Oxford, where he spent one year, from 1874-1875, on a Boden Sanskrit Scholarship, attending lectures of Max Mueller and Monier-Williams.<ref name="oxforduniversitycalender">Oxford University Calendar, 1875, p. 366</ref><ref name="bkde'snote"> Note written by his third eldest son, Basanta Kumar De, on the occasion of his mother's 50th death anniversary in 1969.</ref>

His fifth eldest daughter was [[Saroj Nalini Dutt]]<ref name="womenofindia"/> and his third eldest son was [[Basanta Kumar De]], whose son was [[Barun De]].

==Career==
He took up his first posting in the civil service as assistant magistrate and collector of Arrah, Behar in 1875. After serving in a number of districts in Behar, he was posted in Raniganj, Bengal in 1881.<ref>[http://www.mocavo.com/The-New-Annual-Army-List-Militia-List-and-Indian-Civil-Service-List-1881-Volume-1881/393337/783 Military and ICS Manual]</ref> He officiated as the district magistrate and collector of Bankura, Burdwan and Faridpore. He served as the full district magistrate and collector of Khulna, where he was befriended by Dr. Krishnadhan Ghosh, the civil surgeon of the district, and the father of Aurobindo Ghosh.<ref name="sriaurobindo"> Peter Heehs, 'The Lives of Sri Aurobindo', (New York:
Columbia University Press, 2008), p. 33</ref><ref name="governmentnotifications">Government Notifications: Orders by the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, 6 August, 1893, in 'The Liberal and the New Dispensation', Volume XII, Issue 30, Calcutta, R.S. Bhattacharji, p. 9</ref> He became the magistrate and collector of [[Balasore district|Balasore]] in [[Orissa]] and then of [[Malda district|Malda]] and [[Hooghly district|Hooghly]].<ref name="Bengalee">"Mr. B. De", in ''Bengalee'', 7 September 1910; see also ''Indian Daily'' News, 3 September 1910</ref> He was the first Indian to be elected as chairman of the Hooghly Municipal Corporation. He was an (acting) commissioner of the Burdwan Division.<ref name="socialthoughtofrabindranathtagore">Tapati Dutta Gupta, 'Social Thought of Rabindranath Tagore: A Historical Analysis', Abhinav Publications, p. 122, 1993</ref><ref name="liberty">"Late Mr. B. De.: Passing Away of an Old Civilian" in ''Liberty'', Friday, 30 September 1932</ref>

As the district officer of Hooghly, he started the Duke Club there which was meant to be exclusively for Indians.<ref name="britishness">Mrinalini Sinha, 'Britishness, Clubbability, and the Colonial Public Sphere: The Genealogy of an Imperial Institution in Colonial India', in 'The Journal of British Studies', Volume 4, Issue 44, October 2001, pp. 489–521</ref> One of his commissioners once told him not to entertain the thought of wanting to join a British club in the district.<ref name="bodiesincontact">Tony Ballantyne, 'Bodies in Contact', Duke University Press, 2005, p.193</ref>

De retired from active service in 1910.

==Post-Retirement==
After retirement he remained involved in the work of the Calcutta Improvement Trust.<ref name="latemrbdepassingawayofanoldcivilian">'Late Mr. B.De: Passing Away of An Old Civilian' in ''Liberty'', Friday, 30 September 1932</ref><ref name="latemr.b.decalcuttacorporationtributes">"Late Mr. B. De, Calcutta Corporation Tributes", in ''Liberty'', Saturday, 1 October 1932</ref> He served as a vice-president of the council of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta.<ref name="birthcentenaryofbdecelebrated">"Birth Centenary of B.De Celebrated" in ''The Statesman'', Wednesday, 24 December 1952</ref><ref name="latemrbdecelebration">"He Rehabilitated Persian in Bengal: Tributes to Late B.De: Birthday Celebration" in ''Amrita Bazar Patrika'', Wednesday, 24 December 1952</ref>

==Academic==
De translated Kalidasa's 'Vikramorvasi' and 'Manichudabadana' from Sanskrit to English.<ref name="latemrbdepassingawayofanoldcivilian"/> He edited an English-Bengali dictionary<ref name="liberty"/> and published an article on inter dining in the Madras Social Reformer (1910).

He was the translator and editor, in two volumes, of [[Nizamuddin Ahmad]]'s '' The Tabaqat-i-Akbari''. The third volume, which he had left fully prepared, was posthumously published by Baini Prasad and M. Hidayat Hosain.<ref name="mr.b.dedeadretiredmemberofthecivilservice">"Mr.B.De Dead Retired Member of the Civil Service" in ''The Statesman'', 30 September 1932</ref><ref name="thestatusofmuslimwomeninmedievalindia">[https://books.google.com/books?id=yF4lDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT120&lpg=PT120&dq=Tabaqat+i+Akbari+-+Beni+Prasad&source=bl&ots=jpsDUeBIsE&sig=9Z1X7kHfL-B_-mTgLvZz8RuvAiU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJn-XwhNnOAhXLNo8KHV7XDlgQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=Tabaqat%20i%20Akbari%20-%20Beni%20Prasad&f=false Sudha Sharma, ''Status of Muslim Women in Medieval India'', Allahabad]</ref><ref name="Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari'"/>

==Legacy==
A road in Chinsura, the headquarter of Hooghly district<ref name="mapofchinsura">[https://www.google.com/maps/place/B.Dey+Rd,+Hooghly,+West+Bengal+712101/@22.9025053,88.3949378,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x39f893f96abb29e3:0x854c02d1d9d97a7d!8m2!3d22.9025053!4d88.3971265 Map of Chinsura, Hooghly, Bengal]</ref> and a hall in Malda, the headquarter of Malda district<ref name="mapofmalda"> [https://www.google.com/search?q=B.De+Hall%2C+Malda&oq=B.De+Hall%2C+Malda&aqs=chrome..69i57.15054j0j7&client=ms-android-samsung-gj-rev1&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#istate=lrl:mlt&trex=m_r:1,m_t:gwp,rc_q:B.De%2520Hall%252C%2520Malda,rc_ui:1,ru_gwp:0%252C6,ru_q:B.De%2520Hall%252C%2520Malda,trex_id:A9QtDb Map of Malda, Bengal]</ref> are named after him.

==Publications==

*(Ed. & tran.), Kālidāsa's play [[Vikramōrvaśīyam|Vikramorvasi]], Canto I., in ''[[Calcutta Review]]'', Oct. 1884, pp. 440–2.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Schuyler, Jr.|first=Montgomery|title=Bibliography of Kālidāsa's Mālavikāgnimitra and Vikramorvaçī|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|date=1902|volume=23|pages=93–101|jstor=592384|doi=10.2307/592384}}</ref>
* (Ed. & tran.), ''The Tabaqat-i-Akbari of Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmad: A History of India from the Early Musalman Invasions to the Thirty-eighth year of the Reign of Akbar'' (in 3 Vols.), (Calcutta, reprint, 1973)<ref>[http://www.lppindia.com/servlet/lppgetbiblio?bno=000476 Tabaqat-i-Akbari by Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmed]</ref>
* "Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service", in ''Calcutta Review'', (1953–5) (in 3 parts).<ref>[http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/10689/12810/10/Bibliography.pdf Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service' in the Calcutta Review]</ref><ref name="feministpostcolonialisttheory">[https://books.google.com/books?id=ccFuGe-hBt0C&pg=PA456&lpg=PA456&dq=Brajendranath+De+-+Presidency+College&source=bl&ots=K2kq_JjbhL&sig=V-I5vHvmGjlu79Vk2GPSfn-c9QY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD0cvf8u7ZAhVMo48KHYq3CRU4ChDoAQgyMAM#v=onepage&q=Brajendranath%20De%20-%20Presidency%20College&f=false Mrinalini Sinha, "Reconfiguring Hiararchies: The Ilbert Bill Controversy, 1883-84", in Reina Lewis and Sarah Mills, ''Feminist Post-Colonialist Theory: A Reader'', New York and London, Routledge, 2003, p. 456]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.asiaticsocietycal.com/ The Asiatic Society, Calcutta]

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Barun De

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{{Infobox person
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| birth_place=[[Calcutta]], [[Bengal]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2013|07|16|1932|10|30}}({{lang-bn|৮১}})
| death_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
| occupation =Historian
| years active =1961-2001
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'''Barun De''' ({{lang-bn|'''বরুণ দে'''}}) (30 October, 1932 – 16 July, 2013) ({{lang-bn|১৩ কার্তিক, ১৩৩৯ - ৩১ আষাঢ়, ১৪২০}}) was an Indian historian and institution builder.

==Early life and education==
De, a member of a Kayastha-Brahmo family of Calcutta<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130718/jsp/calcutta/story_17126553.jsp |title=Historian Barun De dead |date=18 July 2013 |accessdate=2016-08-15}}</ref><ref name="HT20130718">{{cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/kolkata/Historian-Barun-De-passes-away/Article-1094187.aspx |date=18 July 2013 |title=Historian Barun De passes away |publisher=Hindustan Times |accessdate=4 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131010131755/http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/kolkata/Historian-Barun-De-passes-away/Article-1094187.aspx |archivedate=10 October 2013 }}</ref>, was the son of [[Draft: Basanta Kumar De|Basanta Kumar De]]<ref name="frontline1">[http://www.frontline.in/other/obituary/historian-and-administrator/article4995294.ece "Historian and Administrator" - Aniruddha Ray] Retrieved 2015-03-03</ref> and Pramila De (nee Gupta). His grandfather was [[Brajendranath De]].<ref name="vmh">[http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/official_info/victoria_newsletter_feb2014.pdf Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, 'Obituary' in the ''Victoria Memorial Newsletter'', 2014]</ref> He studied at St. Xavier's Collegiate School, Calcutta. He completed his I.A. & B.A. (Honours) in History at Presidency College, Calcutta, where he was a student of [[Susobhan Sarkar|Susobhan Chandra Sarkar]]. He was a debate secretary of the student's union of the college.

De completed his 2nd B.A. (Honours School) at St. Catherine's Society, Oxford, where his tutors were George Holmes and Wilfred Knapp. He completed his D.Phil. thesis on "Henry Dundas and the Government of India, 1784-1801" under the supervision of Colin Cuthbert Davies<ref name="telegraphindia1">
{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130718/jsp/opinion/story_17126533.jsp#.vOvi_Tb9nIU |title=Clio's Disciple |first=Rudrangshu|last=Mukherjee |date=18 July 2013 |accessdate=2015-02-24}}</ref> on a Beit studentship at Nuffield College, Oxford. As the holder of this scholarship he took classes in the college. He was awarded the Curzon Memorial Prize for his essay "Macaulay and India". He was secretary, treasurer and president of the Oxford India Majlis.<ref name="thestatesman1">[http://www.thestatesman.com/news/6074-Historian-Barun-De-dead.html "Historian Barun De dead" - The Statesman, 18 July 2013] Retrieved 2015-03-05.</ref>

After returning from Oxford, he formed a lasting friendship with [[Saiyid Nurul Hasan]].<ref name="thetelegraphindia">{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150405/jsp/opinion/story_12677.jsp#.V7E5UjgkrIU |title=State of Abounding Grace |first=Gopal Krishna|last=Gandhi |date=2015 |accessdate=2016-08-15}}</ref>

==Career==
De was a lecturer at the University of Calcutta, a reader at the University of Burdwan, an associate professor and programme director of the Post-Graduate Programme (later Post-Graduate Diploma in Management) and then professor and senior professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta,<ref name="timesofindia1"/><ref name="businessstandard">[https://www.business-standard.com Rudrangshu Mukherjee, 'Ashok Mitra (1928-2018): A Voice of Dissent with a Tender Heart', Business Standard, 2 May, 2018]</ref> a professor and the founder-director of the [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]], and the honorary state editor of the West Bengal District Gazetteers.<ref name="ihr1">[http://ihr.sagepub.com/content/41/1/147.full.pdf+html "Professor Barun De (1932-2013)" - Sabyasachi Bhattacharya] Indian Historical Review. Retrieved 2015-03-15.</ref>

He has taught and worked at various universities in India and abroad, such as Duke University as visiting associate professor, the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, [[Shimla]], as senior fellow,<ref name="thestatesman1"/> ''Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme'', Paris as ''directeur'', and University of Sydney and University of Milan as visiting professor. He was a delegate to several conferences of the United Nations University held at Madrid, Tokyo, Caracass, Mexico City and Berlin.<ref name="changingidentities"> Barun De, 'Imperialism, Nationalism and the Dialectics of Changing Identity in the Indian Subcontinent', in Joachim Heidrich, (ed.), 'Changing Identities: The Transformation of Asian and African Societies under Colonialism', Papers of a symposium held at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin, 21-22 October, 1993, Studien 1, (Berlin: Verlag Das Arabische Buch, 1994), pp. 61-78</ref>

He was a member of the [[Indian Council of Historical Research]], New Delhi, the Indian Council for Social Science Research, New Delhi, the Executive Council (''Karma Samity'') of Vishva Bharati University, Santiniketan, the West Bengal Higher Education Commission and the Executive Council of the A.N. Sinha Institute, Patna. He was secretary, sectional president and general president of the Indian History Congress.<ref name="frontline1"/>

De formally retired from service in 1993.

==Post-retirement==

Soon after his retirement De was once again appointed as director of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta. From 1997-1998, he was Maulana Abul Kalam Azad fellow
of this institute.<ref name="telegraphindia1"/> He was a member of the Indian Council of Cultural Relations in this period. From 1998-2001 he held the India Chair (in the rank of minister-counsellor), with attachment to the Indian Embassy of Uzbekistan, at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent.<ref name="businessstandard1">[http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/historian-barun-de-dies-at-80-113071700809_1.html "Historian Barun De dies at 80" - Business Standard] Retrieved 2015-03-06.</ref>

After returning to India he was made a member of the textbook review committee of the National Council for Educational Research and Training (2004).<ref>[http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/arjun-singh-appoints-panel-to-review-ncert-textbooks/1/196584.html ''India Today'', 2004]</ref> He became chairman of the West Bengal State Archives, Calcutta,<ref name="businessstandard1"/> vice president of the Center for Archaeology and Training, Calcutta, vice president of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,<ref name="frontline1"/>
member of the Board of Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta,<ref name="frontline1"/>, and member of the Court of Vishva Bharati University, Santiniketan.

He was a member of the Heritage Conservation Committee of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, in which capacity he contributed to the preparation of a list of heritage buildings of West Bengal.<ref>[https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/downloads/Graded_List_of_Heritage_Buildings_Grade_I_IIA_IIB.pdf "Heritage Conservation Committee"] p. 3. Retrieved 2015-03-23</ref> ''[[The Times of India]]'' has described him as "a pioneer of the heritage movement of West Bengal".<ref name="timesofindia1">[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Historian-scholar-Barun-De-dies-at-80/articleshow/21156245.cms "The Times of India" - Staff Reporter] Retrieved 2015-02-27.</ref> From 2001-2008 he was member of the West Bengal Heritage Commission, of which he was the honorary chairman (in the rank of minister-of-state) from 2008-2011.<ref name="businessstandard1"/>

From 2011-2013 he was the Tagore national fellow, which he held at the Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta.<ref name="victoriamemorialnewsletter1">[http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/official_info/victoria_newsletter_feb2014.pdf "Obituary" in the ''Victoria Memorial Newsletter'' - Sabyasachi Bhattacharya] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226153443/http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/official_info/victoria_newsletter_feb2014.pdf |date=2015-02-26 }} Retrieved 2015-0317.</ref>

==Research==
De's research spanned from early to late modern period of Indian history. In the early half of his career he wrote on Henry Dundas and the conquest of India. Later, he addressed the Marxist critique of the colonial context of the Bengal renaissance.<ref>[http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/a-great-conversationalist-intellectual/article4925060.ece "A Conversationalist Intellectual - Sugata Bose"] Retrieved 2015-03-27.</ref>

He was also concerned with India's national movement. His popular textbook, ''Freedom Struggle'', co-authored with [[Bipan Chandra]] and Amalesh Tripathi,<ref name="telegraphindia1"/> was censored by the Indian government in 1977,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=4DlMSrtOGLIC&pg=PA272 "Censorship of Historical Thought: A World Guide" - Antoon de Baets] Retrieved 2015-02-21.</ref> although he was well-known for his criticism of India's first emergency.<ref name="proceedingsoftheindianhistorycongress">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44156392?seq=1&loggedin=true#page_scan_tab_contents Irfan Habib, "Professor Barun De (1932-2013)" in ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', Vol. 73, 2012, p. 1554]</ref> This book has been translated into Bengali by Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya.<ref>[http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article4385.html "Historian Barun De passes away - Panchanan Chattopadhyay"]. ''Mainstreamweekly''. Retrieved 2015-03-23.</ref>

In 1975, he edited a volume in honour of Susobhan Chandra Sarkar, in which he wrote the main essay that reveals his preference for objectivity and critical analysis.<ref name="proceedingsoftheindianhistorycongress1">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44156392?seq=2&loggedin=true#page_scan_tab_contents Irfan Habib, "Professor Barun De (1932-2013)" in ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', Volume 73, 2012, p. 1554]</ref> He edited the 24 Parganas and Darjeeling ''District Gazetteers''<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> and contributed to the editing of the Jalpaiguri District Gazetteers too.<ref name="districtgazetteers1">[https://books.google.com/books?id=UfToffd1KxMC&pg=PA201&lpg=PA201&dq=Barun+De,+Jalpaiguri+district+gazetteers&source=bl&ots=LCjhrE6fY2&sig=Rw9AXjtY445QnVTRA6XHXnuaZpU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjWy5HlxfzaAhXIqo8KHROuAZMQ6AEIQzAF#v=onepage&q=Barun%20De%2C%20Jalpaiguri%20district%20gazetteers&f=false Abani Mohan Kusari, West Bengal District GazetteersL Jalpaiguri, Gazetteer of India, Calcutta, Barun De, Honorary State Editor, West Bengal District Gazetteers, Calcutta, 1981 in Michael Lampert, Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012].</ref>

==Awards==
*D.Litt. (''Honouris Causa''), North Bengal University, 2000.<ref name="jagranjosh">[http://www.jagranjosh.com/current-affairs/barun-de-the-renowned-historian-and-academician-passed-away-at-80-1377577861-1 Akanksha Sharma, 'Barun De, The Renowned Historian and Academician Passed Away at 80' in ''Jagran Josh'', 17 July 2013]</ref>

*Banga Samman, 2008-09

==Legacy==

After De's death the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta had instituted a memorial lecture in his name.<ref>[http://makaias.gov.in/Programme_BarunDe_Memorial_Lecture1.pdf Barun De Memorial Lecture] Retrieved 2015-02-27.</ref> The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta has renamed its auditorium at the Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre after him.<ref name="jadunathbhavan">[http://jbmrc.cssscal.org/remembering-professor-barun-de/ Barun De Auditorium, CSSSC]</ref>

==Publications==

*''Secularism at Bay: Uzbekistan at the Turn of the Century'' (New Delhi, 2006)<ref>[https://books.google.com/books/about/Secularism_at_Bay.html?id=TjE74t1I9NsC&redir_esc=y "Secularism at Bay: Uzbekistan at the Turn of the Century" - Barun De] Retrieved 2015-02-17.</ref>
*(ed.) ''State, Development and Political Culture: Bangladesh and India'', (New Delhi, 1997) (co-edited with Ranabir Samaddar)
*(সম্পাদক) 'মুক্তি সংগ্রামে বাংলার ছাত্র-সমাজ' (কলকাতা, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ ইতিহাস সংসদ, ১৯৯২) (''Students of Bengal in the Struggle of Liberation'', Paschim Banga Itihas Samsad, 1992)
*(ed.) ''West Bengal District Gazetteers, 24 Parganas'', (Calcutta, 1983)
*(ed.) ''West Bengal District Gazetteers, Jalpaiguri'', (Calcutta, 1981) (co-edited with Abani Mohan Kusari).
*(ed.) ''West Bengal District Gazetteers, Darjeeling'', (Calcutta, 1980)
*''The Dialectics Between Response to Exogenous and Autochthonous Innovation in India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, with Special Reference to Modern Bengal'', (Tokyo: United Nations University, 1979)<ref name="unu">[https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1713550 The Dialectics Between Response to Exogenous and Autochthonous Innovation in India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, with Special Reference to Modern Bengal - Barun De] Retrieved 2018-01-12.</ref>
*(ed.) ''Perspectives in Social Sciences, 1: Historical Dimensions'' (New Delhi, 1977)<ref name="perspectivesinsocialscienceihistoricaldimensions">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/2055079?seq=1 David L.Curley (reviewer), ''Perspectives in Social Sciences I: Historical Dimension'', in ''The Journal of Asian Studies'', Vol. 40, No. 1, (Nov. 1980), pp. 158–60]</ref><ref name="perspectivesinsocialscienceshistoricaldimensions1">[https://books.google.com/books?id=GHxJDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT234&lpg=PT234&dq=Barun+De&source=bl&ots=X75XMnufBq&sig=zpY72FIOO7UfU3rH8I71SAT1GPc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi1qJrP29vZAhXHPo8KHZP4DMM4FBDoAQhDMAg#v=onepage&q=Barun%20De&f=false Chandak Sengoopta, ''The Rays before Satyajit: Creativity and Modernity in Colonial India'', (New Delhi, Oxford, 2016)]</ref>
* "A Biographical Perspective on the Political and Economic Ideas of Rammohun Ray", in V.C.Joshi, (ed.), ''Rammohun Roy and the Process of Modernisation in India'', New Delhi, 1975<ref name="indianpoliticalthought">[https://books.google.com/books?id=yP59iDghcIkC&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=Barun+De&source=bl&ots=JEIKcyzgDB&sig=bHJMaKGdoWOXXD6JRAzKMD9DZLY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiKyazs3tvZAhUUTo8KHXDCCMM4HhDoAQg1MAQ#v=onepage&q=Barun%20De&f=false Amiya P. Sen, "Rammohan Roy", in Mahendra Prasad Singh and Himanshu Roy, ''Indian Political Thought: Themes and Thinkers'', (Delhi, Pearson, 2011), p. 68]</ref>
*(ed.) ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', (Calcutta: Jadavpur Session, 1974)
*(ed.) ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', (Aligarh: Aligarh Session, 1975)
*(et al. eds.) ''Essays in Honour of Professor Sushobhan Chandra Sarkar'' (New Delhi, 1975)<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=xJgDawlnknwC&pg=PA190 "Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital: Rural Bengal since 1770" - Sugata Bose] 2015-02-19.</ref>
*''Freedom Struggle'' (New Delhi, 1972), (co-authored with [[Bipan Chandra]] and Amalesh Tripathi)<ref>[https://www.amazon.in/Freedom-Struggle-Bipan-Chandra/dp/8123702493 "Freedom Struggle" - Bipan Chandra, Amalesh Tripathi and Barun De] Retrieved 2015-02-18.</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.cssscal.org/ Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]
*[http://www.makaias.gov.in/ Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta]

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Barun De

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| birth_place=[[Calcutta]], [[Bengal]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2013|07|16|1932|10|30}}({{lang-bn|৮১}})
| death_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
| occupation =Historian
| years active =1961-2001
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'''Barun De''' ({{lang-bn|'''বরুণ দে'''}}) (30 October, 1932 – 16 July, 2013) ({{lang-bn|১৩ কার্তিক, ১৩৩৯ - ৩১ আষাঢ়, ১৪২০}}) was an Indian historian and institution builder.

==Early life and education==
De, a member of a Kayastha-Brahmo family of Calcutta<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130718/jsp/calcutta/story_17126553.jsp |title=Historian Barun De dead |date=18 July 2013 |accessdate=2016-08-15}}</ref><ref name="HT20130718">{{cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/kolkata/Historian-Barun-De-passes-away/Article-1094187.aspx |date=18 July 2013 |title=Historian Barun De passes away |publisher=Hindustan Times |accessdate=4 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131010131755/http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/kolkata/Historian-Barun-De-passes-away/Article-1094187.aspx |archivedate=10 October 2013 }}</ref>, was the son of [[Draft: Basanta Kumar De|Basanta Kumar De]]<ref name="frontline1">[http://www.frontline.in/other/obituary/historian-and-administrator/article4995294.ece "Historian and Administrator" - Aniruddha Ray] Retrieved 2015-03-03</ref> and Pramila De (nee Gupta). His grandfather was [[Brajendranath De]].<ref name="vmh">[http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/official_info/victoria_newsletter_feb2014.pdf Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, 'Obituary' in the ''Victoria Memorial Newsletter'', 2014]</ref> He studied at St. Xavier's Collegiate School, Calcutta. He completed his I.A. & B.A. (Honours) in History at Presidency College, Calcutta, where he was a student of [[Susobhan Sarkar|Susobhan Chandra Sarkar]]. He was a debate secretary of the student's union of the college.

De completed his 2nd B.A. (Honours School) at St. Catherine's Society, Oxford, where his tutors were George Holmes and Wilfred Knapp. He completed his D.Phil. thesis on "Henry Dundas and the Government of India, 1784-1801" under the supervision of Colin Cuthbert Davies<ref name="telegraphindia1">
{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130718/jsp/opinion/story_17126533.jsp#.vOvi_Tb9nIU |title=Clio's Disciple |first=Rudrangshu|last=Mukherjee |date=18 July 2013 |accessdate=2015-02-24}}</ref> on a Beit studentship at Nuffield College, Oxford. As the holder of this scholarship he took classes in the college. He was awarded the Curzon Memorial Prize for his essay "Macaulay and India". He was secretary, treasurer and president of the Oxford India Majlis.<ref name="thestatesman1">[http://www.thestatesman.com/news/6074-Historian-Barun-De-dead.html "Historian Barun De dead" - The Statesman, 18 July 2013] Retrieved 2015-03-05.</ref>

After returning from Oxford, he formed a lasting friendship with [[Saiyid Nurul Hasan]].<ref name="thetelegraphindia">{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150405/jsp/opinion/story_12677.jsp#.V7E5UjgkrIU |title=State of Abounding Grace |first=Gopal Krishna|last=Gandhi |date=2015 |accessdate=2016-08-15}}</ref>

==Career==
De was a lecturer at the University of Calcutta, a reader at the University of Burdwan, an associate professor and programme director of the Post-Graduate Programme (later Post-Graduate Diploma in Management) and then professor and senior professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta,<ref name="timesofindia1"/><ref name="businessstandard">[https://www.business-standard.com Rudrangshu Mukherjee, 'Ashok Mitra (1928-2018): A Voice of Dissent with a Tender Heart', Business Standard, 2 May, 2018]</ref> a professor and the founder-director of the [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]], and the honorary state editor of the West Bengal District Gazetteers.<ref name="ihr1">[http://ihr.sagepub.com/content/41/1/147.full.pdf+html "Professor Barun De (1932-2013)" - Sabyasachi Bhattacharya] Indian Historical Review. Retrieved 2015-03-15.</ref>

He has taught and worked at various universities in India and abroad, such as Duke University as visiting associate professor, the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, [[Shimla]], as senior fellow,<ref name="thestatesman1"/> ''Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme'', Paris as ''directeur'', and University of Sydney and University of Milan as visiting professor. He was a delegate to several conferences of the United Nations University held at Madrid, Tokyo, Caracass, Mexico City and Berlin.<ref name="changingidentities"> Barun De, 'Imperialism, Nationalism and the Dialectics of Changing Identity in the Indian Subcontinent', in Joachim Heidrich, (ed.), 'Changing Identities: The Transformation of Asian and African Societies under Colonialism', Papers of a symposium held at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin, 21-22 October, 1993, Studien 1, (Berlin: Verlag Das Arabische Buch, 1994), pp. 61-78</ref>

He was a member of the [[Indian Council of Historical Research]], New Delhi, the Indian Council for Social Science Research, New Delhi, the Executive Council (''Karma Samity'') of Vishva Bharati University, Santiniketan, the West Bengal Higher Education Commission and the Executive Council of the A.N. Sinha Institute, Patna. He was secretary, sectional president and general president of the Indian History Congress.<ref name="frontline1"/>

De formally retired from service in 1993.

==Post-retirement==

Soon after his retirement De was once again appointed as director of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta. From 1997-1998, he was Maulana Abul Kalam Azad fellow
of this institute.<ref name="telegraphindia1"/> He was a member of the Indian Council of Cultural Relations in this period. From 1998-2001 he held the India Chair (in the rank of minister-counsellor), with attachment to the Indian Embassy of Uzbekistan, at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent.<ref name="businessstandard1">[http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/historian-barun-de-dies-at-80-113071700809_1.html "Historian Barun De dies at 80" - Business Standard] Retrieved 2015-03-06.</ref>

After returning to India he was made a member of the textbook review committee of the National Council for Educational Research and Training (2004).<ref>[http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/arjun-singh-appoints-panel-to-review-ncert-textbooks/1/196584.html ''India Today'', 2004]</ref> He became chairman of the West Bengal State Archives, Calcutta,<ref name="businessstandard1"/> vice president of the Center for Archaeology and Training, Calcutta, vice president of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,<ref name="frontline1"/>
member of the Board of Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta,<ref name="frontline1"/>, and member of the Court of Vishva Bharati University, Santiniketan.

He was a member of the Heritage Conservation Committee of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, in which capacity he contributed to the preparation of a list of heritage buildings of West Bengal.<ref>[https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/downloads/Graded_List_of_Heritage_Buildings_Grade_I_IIA_IIB.pdf "Heritage Conservation Committee"] p. 3. Retrieved 2015-03-23</ref> ''[[The Times of India]]'' has described him as "a pioneer of the heritage movement of West Bengal".<ref name="timesofindia1">[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Historian-scholar-Barun-De-dies-at-80/articleshow/21156245.cms "The Times of India" - Staff Reporter] Retrieved 2015-02-27.</ref> From 2001-2008 he was member of the West Bengal Heritage Commission, of which he was the honorary chairman (in the rank of minister-of-state) from 2008-2011.<ref name="businessstandard1"/>

From 2011-2013 he was the Tagore national fellow, which he held at the Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta.<ref name="victoriamemorialnewsletter1">[http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/official_info/victoria_newsletter_feb2014.pdf "Obituary" in the ''Victoria Memorial Newsletter'' - Sabyasachi Bhattacharya] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226153443/http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/official_info/victoria_newsletter_feb2014.pdf |date=2015-02-26 }} Retrieved 2015-0317.</ref>

==Research==
De's research spanned from early to late modern period of Indian history. In the early half of his career he wrote on Henry Dundas and the conquest of India. Later, he addressed the Marxist critique of the colonial context of the Bengal renaissance.<ref>[http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/a-great-conversationalist-intellectual/article4925060.ece "A Conversationalist Intellectual - Sugata Bose"] Retrieved 2015-03-27.</ref>

He was also concerned with India's national movement. His popular textbook, ''Freedom Struggle'', co-authored with [[Bipan Chandra]] and Amalesh Tripathi,<ref name="telegraphindia1"/> was censored by the Indian government in 1977,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=4DlMSrtOGLIC&pg=PA272 "Censorship of Historical Thought: A World Guide" - Antoon de Baets] Retrieved 2015-02-21.</ref> although he was well-known for his criticism of India's first emergency.<ref name="proceedingsoftheindianhistorycongress">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44156392?seq=1&loggedin=true#page_scan_tab_contents Irfan Habib, "Professor Barun De (1932-2013)" in ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', Vol. 73, 2012, p. 1554]</ref> This book has been translated into Bengali by Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya.<ref>[http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article4385.html "Historian Barun De passes away - Panchanan Chattopadhyay"]. ''Mainstreamweekly''. Retrieved 2015-03-23.</ref>

In 1975, he edited a volume in honour of Susobhan Chandra Sarkar, in which he wrote the main essay that reveals his preference for objectivity and critical analysis.<ref name="proceedingsoftheindianhistorycongress1">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44156392?seq=2&loggedin=true#page_scan_tab_contents Irfan Habib, "Professor Barun De (1932-2013)" in ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', Volume 73, 2012, p. 1554]</ref> He edited the 24 Parganas and Darjeeling ''District Gazetteers''<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> and contributed to the editing of the Jalpaiguri District Gazetteers too.<ref name="districtgazetteers1">[https://books.google.com/books?id=UfToffd1KxMC&pg=PA201&lpg=PA201&dq=Barun+De,+Jalpaiguri+district+gazetteers&source=bl&ots=LCjhrE6fY2&sig=Rw9AXjtY445QnVTRA6XHXnuaZpU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjWy5HlxfzaAhXIqo8KHROuAZMQ6AEIQzAF#v=onepage&q=Barun%20De%2C%20Jalpaiguri%20district%20gazetteers&f=false Abani Mohan Kusari, West Bengal District GazetteersL Jalpaiguri, Gazetteer of India, Calcutta, Barun De, Honorary State Editor, West Bengal District Gazetteers, Calcutta, 1981 in Michael Lampert, Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012].</ref>

==Awards==
*D.Litt. (''Honouris Causa''), North Bengal University, 2000.<ref name="jagranjosh">[http://www.jagranjosh.com/current-affairs/barun-de-the-renowned-historian-and-academician-passed-away-at-80-1377577861-1 Akanksha Sharma, 'Barun De, The Renowned Historian and Academician Passed Away at 80' in ''Jagran Josh'', 17 July 2013]</ref>

*Banga Samman, 2008-09

==Legacy==

After De's death the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta had instituted a memorial lecture in his name.<ref>[http://makaias.gov.in/Programme_BarunDe_Memorial_Lecture1.pdf Barun De Memorial Lecture] Retrieved 2015-02-27.</ref> The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta has renamed its auditorium at the Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre after him.<ref name="jadunathbhavan">[http://jbmrc.cssscal.org/remembering-professor-barun-de/ Barun De Auditorium, CSSSC]</ref>

==Publications==

*''Secularism at Bay: Uzbekistan at the Turn of the Century'' (New Delhi, 2006)<ref>[https://books.google.com/books/about/Secularism_at_Bay.html?id=TjE74t1I9NsC&redir_esc=y "Secularism at Bay: Uzbekistan at the Turn of the Century" - Barun De] Retrieved 2015-02-17.</ref>
*(ed.) ''State, Development and Political Culture: Bangladesh and India'', (New Delhi, 1997) (co-edited with Ranabir Samaddar)
*(সম্পাদক) 'মুক্তি সংগ্রামে বাংলার ছাত্র-সমাজ' (কলকাতা, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ ইতিহাস সংসদ, ১৯৯২) (''Students of Bengal in the Struggle of Liberation'', Paschim Banga Itihas Samsad, 1992)
*(ed.) ''West Bengal District Gazetteers, 24 Parganas'', (Calcutta, 1983)
*(ed.) ''West Bengal District Gazetteers, Jalpaiguri'', (Calcutta, 1981) (co-edited with Abani Mohan Kusari).
*(ed.) ''West Bengal District Gazetteers, Darjeeling'', (Calcutta, 1980)
*''The Dialectics Between Response to Exogenous and Autochthonous Innovation in India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, with Special Reference to Modern Bengal'', (Tokyo: United Nations University, 1979)<ref name="unu">[https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1713550 The Dialectics Between Response to Exogenous and Autochthonous Innovation in India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, with Special Reference to Modern Bengal - Barun De] Retrieved 2018-01-12.</ref>
*(ed.) ''Perspectives in Social Sciences, 1: Historical Dimensions'' (New Delhi, 1977)<ref name="perspectivesinsocialscienceihistoricaldimensions">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/2055079?seq=1 David L.Curley (reviewer), ''Perspectives in Social Sciences I: Historical Dimension'', in ''The Journal of Asian Studies'', Vol. 40, No. 1, (Nov. 1980), pp. 158–60]</ref><ref name="perspectivesinsocialscienceshistoricaldimensions1">[https://books.google.com/books?id=GHxJDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT234&lpg=PT234&dq=Barun+De&source=bl&ots=X75XMnufBq&sig=zpY72FIOO7UfU3rH8I71SAT1GPc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi1qJrP29vZAhXHPo8KHZP4DMM4FBDoAQhDMAg#v=onepage&q=Barun%20De&f=false Chandak Sengoopta, ''The Rays before Satyajit: Creativity and Modernity in Colonial India'', (New Delhi, Oxford, 2016)]</ref>
* "A Biographical Perspective on the Political and Economic Ideas of Rammohun Ray", in V.C.Joshi, (ed.), ''Rammohun Roy and the Process of Modernisation in India'', New Delhi, 1975<ref name="indianpoliticalthought">[https://books.google.com/books?id=yP59iDghcIkC&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=Barun+De&source=bl&ots=JEIKcyzgDB&sig=bHJMaKGdoWOXXD6JRAzKMD9DZLY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiKyazs3tvZAhUUTo8KHXDCCMM4HhDoAQg1MAQ#v=onepage&q=Barun%20De&f=false Amiya P. Sen, "Rammohan Roy", in Mahendra Prasad Singh and Himanshu Roy, ''Indian Political Thought: Themes and Thinkers'', (Delhi, Pearson, 2011), p. 68]</ref>
*(ed.) ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', (Calcutta: Jadavpur Session, 1974)
*(ed.) ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', (Aligarh: Aligarh Session, 1975)
*(et al. eds.) ''Essays in Honour of Professor Sushobhan Chandra Sarkar'' (New Delhi, 1975)<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=xJgDawlnknwC&pg=PA190 "Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital: Rural Bengal since 1770" - Sugata Bose] 2015-02-19.</ref>
*''Freedom Struggle'' (New Delhi, 1972), (co-authored with [[Bipan Chandra]] and Amalesh Tripathi)<ref>[https://www.amazon.in/Freedom-Struggle-Bipan-Chandra/dp/8123702493 "Freedom Struggle" - Bipan Chandra, Amalesh Tripathi and Barun De] Retrieved 2015-02-18.</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.cssscal.org/ Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]
*[http://www.makaias.gov.in/ Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta]

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Barun De

2022-02-06T03:22:19Z

BDe2021: /* Post-retirement */

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1932|10|30}}
| birth_place=[[Calcutta]], [[Bengal]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2013|07|16|1932|10|30}}({{lang-bn|৮১}})
| death_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
| occupation =Historian
| years active =1961-2001
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|children = 2
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'''Barun De''' ({{lang-bn|'''বরুণ দে'''}}) (30 October, 1932 – 16 July, 2013) ({{lang-bn|১৩ কার্তিক, ১৩৩৯ - ৩১ আষাঢ়, ১৪২০}}) was an Indian historian and institution builder.

==Early life and education==
De, a member of a Kayastha-Brahmo family of Calcutta<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130718/jsp/calcutta/story_17126553.jsp |title=Historian Barun De dead |date=18 July 2013 |accessdate=2016-08-15}}</ref><ref name="HT20130718">{{cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/kolkata/Historian-Barun-De-passes-away/Article-1094187.aspx |date=18 July 2013 |title=Historian Barun De passes away |publisher=Hindustan Times |accessdate=4 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131010131755/http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/kolkata/Historian-Barun-De-passes-away/Article-1094187.aspx |archivedate=10 October 2013 }}</ref>, was the son of [[Draft: Basanta Kumar De|Basanta Kumar De]]<ref name="frontline1">[http://www.frontline.in/other/obituary/historian-and-administrator/article4995294.ece "Historian and Administrator" - Aniruddha Ray] Retrieved 2015-03-03</ref> and Pramila De (nee Gupta). His grandfather was [[Brajendranath De]].<ref name="vmh">[http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/official_info/victoria_newsletter_feb2014.pdf Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, 'Obituary' in the ''Victoria Memorial Newsletter'', 2014]</ref> He studied at St. Xavier's Collegiate School, Calcutta. He completed his I.A. & B.A. (Honours) in History at Presidency College, Calcutta, where he was a student of [[Susobhan Sarkar|Susobhan Chandra Sarkar]]. He was a debate secretary of the student's union of the college.

De completed his 2nd B.A. (Honours School) at St. Catherine's Society, Oxford, where his tutors were George Holmes and Wilfred Knapp. He completed his D.Phil. thesis on "Henry Dundas and the Government of India, 1784-1801" under the supervision of Colin Cuthbert Davies<ref name="telegraphindia1">
{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130718/jsp/opinion/story_17126533.jsp#.vOvi_Tb9nIU |title=Clio's Disciple |first=Rudrangshu|last=Mukherjee |date=18 July 2013 |accessdate=2015-02-24}}</ref> on a Beit studentship at Nuffield College, Oxford. As the holder of this scholarship he took classes in the college. He was awarded the Curzon Memorial Prize for his essay "Macaulay and India". He was secretary, treasurer and president of the Oxford India Majlis.<ref name="thestatesman1">[http://www.thestatesman.com/news/6074-Historian-Barun-De-dead.html "Historian Barun De dead" - The Statesman, 18 July 2013] Retrieved 2015-03-05.</ref>

After returning from Oxford, he formed a lasting friendship with [[Saiyid Nurul Hasan]].<ref name="thetelegraphindia">{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150405/jsp/opinion/story_12677.jsp#.V7E5UjgkrIU |title=State of Abounding Grace |first=Gopal Krishna|last=Gandhi |date=2015 |accessdate=2016-08-15}}</ref>

==Career==
De was a lecturer at the University of Calcutta, a reader at the University of Burdwan, an associate professor and programme director of the Post-Graduate Programme (later Post-Graduate Diploma in Management) and then professor and senior professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta,<ref name="timesofindia1"/><ref name="businessstandard">[https://www.business-standard.com Rudrangshu Mukherjee, 'Ashok Mitra (1928-2018): A Voice of Dissent with a Tender Heart', Business Standard, 2 May, 2018]</ref> a professor and the founder-director of the [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]], and the honorary state editor of the West Bengal District Gazetteers.<ref name="ihr1">[http://ihr.sagepub.com/content/41/1/147.full.pdf+html "Professor Barun De (1932-2013)" - Sabyasachi Bhattacharya] Indian Historical Review. Retrieved 2015-03-15.</ref>

He has taught and worked at various universities in India and abroad, such as Duke University as visiting associate professor, the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, [[Shimla]], as senior fellow,<ref name="thestatesman1"/> ''Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme'', Paris as ''directeur'', and University of Sydney and University of Milan as visiting professor. He was a delegate to several conferences of the United Nations University held at Madrid, Tokyo, Caracass, Mexico City and Berlin.<ref name="changingidentities"> Barun De, 'Imperialism, Nationalism and the Dialectics of Changing Identity in the Indian Subcontinent', in Joachim Heidrich, (ed.), 'Changing Identities: The Transformation of Asian and African Societies under Colonialism', Papers of a symposium held at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin, 21-22 October, 1993, Studien 1, (Berlin: Verlag Das Arabische Buch, 1994), pp. 61-78</ref>

He was a member of the [[Indian Council of Historical Research]], New Delhi, the Indian Council for Social Science Research, New Delhi, the Executive Council (''Karma Samity'') of Vishva Bharati University, Santiniketan, the West Bengal Higher Education Commission and the Executive Council of the A.N. Sinha Institute, Patna. He was secretary, sectional president and general president of the Indian History Congress.<ref name="frontline1"/>

De formally retired from service in 1993.

==Post-retirement==

Soon after his retirement De was once again appointed as director of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta. From 1997-1998, he was Maulana Abul Kalam Azad fellow
of this institute.<ref name="telegraphindia1"/> He was a member of the Indian Council of Cultural Relations in this period. From 1998-2001 he held the India Chair (in the rank of minister-counsellor), with attachment to the Indian Embassy of Uzbekistan, at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent.<ref name="businessstandard1">[http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/historian-barun-de-dies-at-80-113071700809_1.html "Historian Barun De dies at 80" - Business Standard] Retrieved 2015-03-06.</ref>

After returning to India he was made a member of the textbook review committee of the National Council for Educational Research and Training (2004).<ref>[http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/arjun-singh-appoints-panel-to-review-ncert-textbooks/1/196584.html ''India Today'', 2004]</ref> He became chairman of the West Bengal State Archives, Calcutta,<ref name="businessstandard1"/> vice president of the Center for Archaeology and Training, Calcutta, vice president of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,<ref name="frontline1"/>
member of the Board of Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta,<ref name="frontline1"/>, and member of the Court of Vishva Bharati University, Santiniketan.

He was a member of the Heritage Conservation Committee of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, in which capacity he contributed to the preparation of a list of heritage buildings of West Bengal.<ref>[https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/downloads/Graded_List_of_Heritage_Buildings_Grade_I_IIA_IIB.pdf "Heritage Conservation Committee"] p. 3. Retrieved 2015-03-23</ref> ''[[The Times of India]]'' has described him as "a pioneer of the heritage movement of West Bengal".<ref name="timesofindia1">[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Historian-scholar-Barun-De-dies-at-80/articleshow/21156245.cms "The Times of India" - Staff Reporter] Retrieved 2015-02-27.</ref> From 2001-2008 he was member of the West Bengal Heritage Commission, of which he was the honorary chairman (in the rank of minister-of-state) from 2008-2011.<ref name="businessstandard1"/>

From 2011-2013 he was the Tagore national fellow, which he held at the Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta.<ref name="victoriamemorialnewsletter1">[http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/official_info/victoria_newsletter_feb2014.pdf "Obituary" in the ''Victoria Memorial Newsletter'' - Sabyasachi Bhattacharya] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226153443/http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/official_info/victoria_newsletter_feb2014.pdf |date=2015-02-26 }} Retrieved 2015-0317.</ref>

==Research==
De's research spanned from early to the late modern period of Indian history. In the earlier part of his career he wrote on Henry Dundas and the conquest of India. Later, he addressed the Marxist critique of the colonial context of the Bengal renaissance.<ref>[http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/a-great-conversationalist-intellectual/article4925060.ece "A Conversationalist Intellectual - Sugata Bose"] Retrieved 2015-03-27.</ref>

He was also concerned with the national movement. His popular textbook book, ''Freedom Struggle'', co-authored with [[Bipan Chandra]] and Amalesh Tripathi,<ref name="telegraphindia1"/> was censored by the Indian government that came to power at the Centre in 1977,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=4DlMSrtOGLIC&pg=PA272 "Censorship of Historical Thought: A World Guide" - Antoon de Baets] Retrieved 2015-02-21.</ref> although he was well-known for his criticism of India's first emergency.<ref name="proceedingsoftheindianhistorycongress">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44156392?seq=1&loggedin=true#page_scan_tab_contents Irfan Habib, "Professor Barun De (1932-2013)" in ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', Vol. 73, 2012, p. 1554]</ref> This book has been translated into Bengali by Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya.<ref>[http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article4385.html "Historian Barun De passes away - Panchanan Chattopadhyay"]. ''Mainstreamweekly''. Retrieved 2015-03-23.</ref>

In 1975 he edited a thick volume in honour of Susobhan Chandra Sarkar, in which he wrote the main essay on his teacher which reveals his preference for objectivity and critical analysis.<ref name="proceedingsoftheindianhistorycongress1">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44156392?seq=2&loggedin=true#page_scan_tab_contents Irfan Habib, "Professor Barun De (1932-2013)" in ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', Volume 73, 2012, p. 1554]</ref> He edited the 24 Parganas and Darjeeling ''District Gazetteers''<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> and contributed to the editing of the Jalpaiguri District Gazetteers too.<ref name="districtgazetteers1">[https://books.google.com/books?id=UfToffd1KxMC&pg=PA201&lpg=PA201&dq=Barun+De,+Jalpaiguri+district+gazetteers&source=bl&ots=LCjhrE6fY2&sig=Rw9AXjtY445QnVTRA6XHXnuaZpU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjWy5HlxfzaAhXIqo8KHROuAZMQ6AEIQzAF#v=onepage&q=Barun%20De%2C%20Jalpaiguri%20district%20gazetteers&f=false Abani Mohan Kusari, West Bengal District GazetteersL Jalpaiguri, Gazetteer of India, Calcutta, Barun De, Honorary State Editor, West Bengal District Gazetteers, Calcutta, 1981 in Michael Lampert, Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012].</ref>

==Awards==
*D.Litt. (''Honouris Causa''), North Bengal University, 2000.<ref name="jagranjosh">[http://www.jagranjosh.com/current-affairs/barun-de-the-renowned-historian-and-academician-passed-away-at-80-1377577861-1 Akanksha Sharma, 'Barun De, The Renowned Historian and Academician Passed Away at 80' in ''Jagran Josh'', 17 July 2013]</ref>

*Banga Samman, 2008-09

==Legacy==

After De's death the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta had instituted a memorial lecture in his name.<ref>[http://makaias.gov.in/Programme_BarunDe_Memorial_Lecture1.pdf Barun De Memorial Lecture] Retrieved 2015-02-27.</ref> The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta has renamed its auditorium at the Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre after him.<ref name="jadunathbhavan">[http://jbmrc.cssscal.org/remembering-professor-barun-de/ Barun De Auditorium, CSSSC]</ref>

==Publications==

*''Secularism at Bay: Uzbekistan at the Turn of the Century'' (New Delhi, 2006)<ref>[https://books.google.com/books/about/Secularism_at_Bay.html?id=TjE74t1I9NsC&redir_esc=y "Secularism at Bay: Uzbekistan at the Turn of the Century" - Barun De] Retrieved 2015-02-17.</ref>
*(ed.) ''State, Development and Political Culture: Bangladesh and India'', (New Delhi, 1997) (co-edited with Ranabir Samaddar)
*(সম্পাদক) 'মুক্তি সংগ্রামে বাংলার ছাত্র-সমাজ' (কলকাতা, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ ইতিহাস সংসদ, ১৯৯২) (''Students of Bengal in the Struggle of Liberation'', Paschim Banga Itihas Samsad, 1992)
*(ed.) ''West Bengal District Gazetteers, 24 Parganas'', (Calcutta, 1983)
*(ed.) ''West Bengal District Gazetteers, Jalpaiguri'', (Calcutta, 1981) (co-edited with Abani Mohan Kusari).
*(ed.) ''West Bengal District Gazetteers, Darjeeling'', (Calcutta, 1980)
*''The Dialectics Between Response to Exogenous and Autochthonous Innovation in India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, with Special Reference to Modern Bengal'', (Tokyo: United Nations University, 1979)<ref name="unu">[https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1713550 The Dialectics Between Response to Exogenous and Autochthonous Innovation in India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, with Special Reference to Modern Bengal - Barun De] Retrieved 2018-01-12.</ref>
*(ed.) ''Perspectives in Social Sciences, 1: Historical Dimensions'' (New Delhi, 1977)<ref name="perspectivesinsocialscienceihistoricaldimensions">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/2055079?seq=1 David L.Curley (reviewer), ''Perspectives in Social Sciences I: Historical Dimension'', in ''The Journal of Asian Studies'', Vol. 40, No. 1, (Nov. 1980), pp. 158–60]</ref><ref name="perspectivesinsocialscienceshistoricaldimensions1">[https://books.google.com/books?id=GHxJDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT234&lpg=PT234&dq=Barun+De&source=bl&ots=X75XMnufBq&sig=zpY72FIOO7UfU3rH8I71SAT1GPc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi1qJrP29vZAhXHPo8KHZP4DMM4FBDoAQhDMAg#v=onepage&q=Barun%20De&f=false Chandak Sengoopta, ''The Rays before Satyajit: Creativity and Modernity in Colonial India'', (New Delhi, Oxford, 2016)]</ref>
* "A Biographical Perspective on the Political and Economic Ideas of Rammohun Ray", in V.C.Joshi, (ed.), ''Rammohun Roy and the Process of Modernisation in India'', New Delhi, 1975<ref name="indianpoliticalthought">[https://books.google.com/books?id=yP59iDghcIkC&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=Barun+De&source=bl&ots=JEIKcyzgDB&sig=bHJMaKGdoWOXXD6JRAzKMD9DZLY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiKyazs3tvZAhUUTo8KHXDCCMM4HhDoAQg1MAQ#v=onepage&q=Barun%20De&f=false Amiya P. Sen, "Rammohan Roy", in Mahendra Prasad Singh and Himanshu Roy, ''Indian Political Thought: Themes and Thinkers'', (Delhi, Pearson, 2011), p. 68]</ref>
*(ed.) ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', (Calcutta: Jadavpur Session, 1974)
*(ed.) ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', (Aligarh: Aligarh Session, 1975)
*(et al. eds.) ''Essays in Honour of Professor Sushobhan Chandra Sarkar'' (New Delhi, 1975)<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=xJgDawlnknwC&pg=PA190 "Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital: Rural Bengal since 1770" - Sugata Bose] 2015-02-19.</ref>
*''Freedom Struggle'' (New Delhi, 1972), (co-authored with [[Bipan Chandra]] and Amalesh Tripathi)<ref>[https://www.amazon.in/Freedom-Struggle-Bipan-Chandra/dp/8123702493 "Freedom Struggle" - Bipan Chandra, Amalesh Tripathi and Barun De] Retrieved 2015-02-18.</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.cssscal.org/ Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]
*[http://www.makaias.gov.in/ Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta]

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Barun De

2022-02-06T03:08:08Z

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'''Barun De''' ({{lang-bn|'''বরুণ দে'''}}) (30 October, 1932 – 16 July, 2013) ({{lang-bn|১৩ কার্তিক, ১৩৩৯ - ৩১ আষাঢ়, ১৪২০}}) was an Indian historian and institution builder.

==Early life and education==
De, a member of a Kayastha-Brahmo family of Calcutta<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130718/jsp/calcutta/story_17126553.jsp |title=Historian Barun De dead |date=18 July 2013 |accessdate=2016-08-15}}</ref><ref name="HT20130718">{{cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/kolkata/Historian-Barun-De-passes-away/Article-1094187.aspx |date=18 July 2013 |title=Historian Barun De passes away |publisher=Hindustan Times |accessdate=4 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131010131755/http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/kolkata/Historian-Barun-De-passes-away/Article-1094187.aspx |archivedate=10 October 2013 }}</ref>, was the son of [[Draft: Basanta Kumar De|Basanta Kumar De]]<ref name="frontline1">[http://www.frontline.in/other/obituary/historian-and-administrator/article4995294.ece "Historian and Administrator" - Aniruddha Ray] Retrieved 2015-03-03</ref> and Pramila De (nee Gupta). His grandfather was [[Brajendranath De]].<ref name="vmh">[http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/official_info/victoria_newsletter_feb2014.pdf Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, 'Obituary' in the ''Victoria Memorial Newsletter'', 2014]</ref> He studied at St. Xavier's Collegiate School, Calcutta. He completed his I.A. & B.A. (Honours) in History at Presidency College, Calcutta, where he was a student of [[Susobhan Sarkar|Susobhan Chandra Sarkar]]. He was a debate secretary of the student's union of the college.

De completed his 2nd B.A. (Honours School) at St. Catherine's Society, Oxford, where his tutors were George Holmes and Wilfred Knapp. He completed his D.Phil. thesis on "Henry Dundas and the Government of India, 1784-1801" under the supervision of Colin Cuthbert Davies<ref name="telegraphindia1">
{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130718/jsp/opinion/story_17126533.jsp#.vOvi_Tb9nIU |title=Clio's Disciple |first=Rudrangshu|last=Mukherjee |date=18 July 2013 |accessdate=2015-02-24}}</ref> on a Beit studentship at Nuffield College, Oxford. As the holder of this scholarship he took classes in the college. He was awarded the Curzon Memorial Prize for his essay "Macaulay and India". He was secretary, treasurer and president of the Oxford India Majlis.<ref name="thestatesman1">[http://www.thestatesman.com/news/6074-Historian-Barun-De-dead.html "Historian Barun De dead" - The Statesman, 18 July 2013] Retrieved 2015-03-05.</ref>

After returning from Oxford, he formed a lasting friendship with [[Saiyid Nurul Hasan]].<ref name="thetelegraphindia">{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150405/jsp/opinion/story_12677.jsp#.V7E5UjgkrIU |title=State of Abounding Grace |first=Gopal Krishna|last=Gandhi |date=2015 |accessdate=2016-08-15}}</ref>

==Career==
De was a lecturer at the University of Calcutta, a reader at the University of Burdwan, an associate professor and programme director of the Post-Graduate Programme (later Post-Graduate Diploma in Management) and then professor and senior professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta,<ref name="timesofindia1"/><ref name="businessstandard">[https://www.business-standard.com Rudrangshu Mukherjee, 'Ashok Mitra (1928-2018): A Voice of Dissent with a Tender Heart', Business Standard, 2 May, 2018]</ref> a professor and the founder-director of the [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]], and the honorary state editor of the West Bengal District Gazetteers.<ref name="ihr1">[http://ihr.sagepub.com/content/41/1/147.full.pdf+html "Professor Barun De (1932-2013)" - Sabyasachi Bhattacharya] Indian Historical Review. Retrieved 2015-03-15.</ref>

He has taught and worked at various universities in India and abroad, such as Duke University as visiting associate professor, the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, [[Shimla]], as senior fellow,<ref name="thestatesman1"/> ''Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme'', Paris as ''directeur'', and University of Sydney and University of Milan as visiting professor. He was a delegate to several conferences of the United Nations University held at Madrid, Tokyo, Caracass, Mexico City and Berlin.<ref name="changingidentities"> Barun De, 'Imperialism, Nationalism and the Dialectics of Changing Identity in the Indian Subcontinent', in Joachim Heidrich, (ed.), 'Changing Identities: The Transformation of Asian and African Societies under Colonialism', Papers of a symposium held at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin, 21-22 October, 1993, Studien 1, (Berlin: Verlag Das Arabische Buch, 1994), pp. 61-78</ref>

He was a member of the [[Indian Council of Historical Research]], New Delhi, the Indian Council for Social Science Research, New Delhi, the Executive Council (''Karma Samity'') of Vishva Bharati University, Santiniketan, the West Bengal Higher Education Commission and the Executive Council of the A.N. Sinha Institute, Patna. He was secretary, sectional president and general president of the Indian History Congress.<ref name="frontline1"/>

De formally retired from service in 1993.

==Post-retirement==

Soon after his retirement De was once again appointed as the director of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta. From 1997-1998, he was the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad fellow
of this institute.<ref name="telegraphindia1"/> He was a member of the Indian Council of Cultural Relations in this period. From 1998-2001 he was the India Chair (in the rank of minister-counsellor), with attachment to the Indian Embassy of Uzbekistan, at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent.<ref name="businessstandard1">[http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/historian-barun-de-dies-at-80-113071700809_1.html "Historian Barun De dies at 80" - Business Standard] Retrieved 2015-03-06.</ref>

In this period he was a member of the textbook review committee of the National Council for Educational Research and Training (2004).<ref>[http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/arjun-singh-appoints-panel-to-review-ncert-textbooks/1/196584.html ''India Today'', 2004]</ref> chairman of the West Bengal State Archives, Calcutta,<ref name="businessstandard1"/> vice president of the Center for Archaeology and Training, Calcutta, a vice president of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,<ref name="frontline1"/>
member of the Board of Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta,<ref name="frontline1"/>, and member of the Court of Vishva Bharati University, Santiniketan.

He was a member of the Heritage Conservation Committee of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, in which capacity he was among the several people who prepared a list of heritage buildings of West Bengal.<ref>[https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/downloads/Graded_List_of_Heritage_Buildings_Grade_I_IIA_IIB.pdf "Heritage Conservation Committee"] p. 3. Retrieved 2015-03-23</ref> ''[[The Times of India]]'' has described him as "a pioneer of the heritage movement of West Bengal"<ref name="timesofindia1">[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Historian-scholar-Barun-De-dies-at-80/articleshow/21156245.cms "The Times of India" - Staff Reporter] Retrieved 2015-02-27.</ref> From 2001-2008 he was a member of the West Bengal Heritage Commission of which he was the honorary chairman (in the rank of minister-of-state) from 2008-2011.<ref name="businessstandard1"/>

From 2011-2013 he was a Tagore national fellow, which he held at the Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta.<ref name="victoriamemorialnewsletter1">[http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/official_info/victoria_newsletter_feb2014.pdf "Obituary" in the ''Victoria Memorial Newsletter'' - Sabyasachi Bhattacharya] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226153443/http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/official_info/victoria_newsletter_feb2014.pdf |date=2015-02-26 }} Retrieved 2015-0317.</ref>

==Research==
De's research spanned from early to the late modern period of Indian history. In the earlier part of his career he wrote on Henry Dundas and the conquest of India. Later, he addressed the Marxist critique of the colonial context of the Bengal renaissance.<ref>[http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/a-great-conversationalist-intellectual/article4925060.ece "A Conversationalist Intellectual - Sugata Bose"] Retrieved 2015-03-27.</ref>

He was also concerned with the national movement. His popular textbook book, ''Freedom Struggle'', co-authored with [[Bipan Chandra]] and Amalesh Tripathi,<ref name="telegraphindia1"/> was censored by the Indian government that came to power at the Centre in 1977,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=4DlMSrtOGLIC&pg=PA272 "Censorship of Historical Thought: A World Guide" - Antoon de Baets] Retrieved 2015-02-21.</ref> although he was well-known for his criticism of India's first emergency.<ref name="proceedingsoftheindianhistorycongress">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44156392?seq=1&loggedin=true#page_scan_tab_contents Irfan Habib, "Professor Barun De (1932-2013)" in ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', Vol. 73, 2012, p. 1554]</ref> This book has been translated into Bengali by Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya.<ref>[http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article4385.html "Historian Barun De passes away - Panchanan Chattopadhyay"]. ''Mainstreamweekly''. Retrieved 2015-03-23.</ref>

In 1975 he edited a thick volume in honour of Susobhan Chandra Sarkar, in which he wrote the main essay on his teacher which reveals his preference for objectivity and critical analysis.<ref name="proceedingsoftheindianhistorycongress1">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44156392?seq=2&loggedin=true#page_scan_tab_contents Irfan Habib, "Professor Barun De (1932-2013)" in ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', Volume 73, 2012, p. 1554]</ref> He edited the 24 Parganas and Darjeeling ''District Gazetteers''<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> and contributed to the editing of the Jalpaiguri District Gazetteers too.<ref name="districtgazetteers1">[https://books.google.com/books?id=UfToffd1KxMC&pg=PA201&lpg=PA201&dq=Barun+De,+Jalpaiguri+district+gazetteers&source=bl&ots=LCjhrE6fY2&sig=Rw9AXjtY445QnVTRA6XHXnuaZpU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjWy5HlxfzaAhXIqo8KHROuAZMQ6AEIQzAF#v=onepage&q=Barun%20De%2C%20Jalpaiguri%20district%20gazetteers&f=false Abani Mohan Kusari, West Bengal District GazetteersL Jalpaiguri, Gazetteer of India, Calcutta, Barun De, Honorary State Editor, West Bengal District Gazetteers, Calcutta, 1981 in Michael Lampert, Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012].</ref>

==Awards==
*D.Litt. (''Honouris Causa''), North Bengal University, 2000.<ref name="jagranjosh">[http://www.jagranjosh.com/current-affairs/barun-de-the-renowned-historian-and-academician-passed-away-at-80-1377577861-1 Akanksha Sharma, 'Barun De, The Renowned Historian and Academician Passed Away at 80' in ''Jagran Josh'', 17 July 2013]</ref>

*Banga Samman, 2008-09

==Legacy==

After De's death the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta had instituted a memorial lecture in his name.<ref>[http://makaias.gov.in/Programme_BarunDe_Memorial_Lecture1.pdf Barun De Memorial Lecture] Retrieved 2015-02-27.</ref> The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta has renamed its auditorium at the Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre after him.<ref name="jadunathbhavan">[http://jbmrc.cssscal.org/remembering-professor-barun-de/ Barun De Auditorium, CSSSC]</ref>

==Publications==

*''Secularism at Bay: Uzbekistan at the Turn of the Century'' (New Delhi, 2006)<ref>[https://books.google.com/books/about/Secularism_at_Bay.html?id=TjE74t1I9NsC&redir_esc=y "Secularism at Bay: Uzbekistan at the Turn of the Century" - Barun De] Retrieved 2015-02-17.</ref>
*(ed.) ''State, Development and Political Culture: Bangladesh and India'', (New Delhi, 1997) (co-edited with Ranabir Samaddar)
*(সম্পাদক) 'মুক্তি সংগ্রামে বাংলার ছাত্র-সমাজ' (কলকাতা, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ ইতিহাস সংসদ, ১৯৯২) (''Students of Bengal in the Struggle of Liberation'', Paschim Banga Itihas Samsad, 1992)
*(ed.) ''West Bengal District Gazetteers, 24 Parganas'', (Calcutta, 1983)
*(ed.) ''West Bengal District Gazetteers, Jalpaiguri'', (Calcutta, 1981) (co-edited with Abani Mohan Kusari).
*(ed.) ''West Bengal District Gazetteers, Darjeeling'', (Calcutta, 1980)
*''The Dialectics Between Response to Exogenous and Autochthonous Innovation in India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, with Special Reference to Modern Bengal'', (Tokyo: United Nations University, 1979)<ref name="unu">[https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1713550 The Dialectics Between Response to Exogenous and Autochthonous Innovation in India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, with Special Reference to Modern Bengal - Barun De] Retrieved 2018-01-12.</ref>
*(ed.) ''Perspectives in Social Sciences, 1: Historical Dimensions'' (New Delhi, 1977)<ref name="perspectivesinsocialscienceihistoricaldimensions">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/2055079?seq=1 David L.Curley (reviewer), ''Perspectives in Social Sciences I: Historical Dimension'', in ''The Journal of Asian Studies'', Vol. 40, No. 1, (Nov. 1980), pp. 158–60]</ref><ref name="perspectivesinsocialscienceshistoricaldimensions1">[https://books.google.com/books?id=GHxJDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT234&lpg=PT234&dq=Barun+De&source=bl&ots=X75XMnufBq&sig=zpY72FIOO7UfU3rH8I71SAT1GPc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi1qJrP29vZAhXHPo8KHZP4DMM4FBDoAQhDMAg#v=onepage&q=Barun%20De&f=false Chandak Sengoopta, ''The Rays before Satyajit: Creativity and Modernity in Colonial India'', (New Delhi, Oxford, 2016)]</ref>
* "A Biographical Perspective on the Political and Economic Ideas of Rammohun Ray", in V.C.Joshi, (ed.), ''Rammohun Roy and the Process of Modernisation in India'', New Delhi, 1975<ref name="indianpoliticalthought">[https://books.google.com/books?id=yP59iDghcIkC&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=Barun+De&source=bl&ots=JEIKcyzgDB&sig=bHJMaKGdoWOXXD6JRAzKMD9DZLY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiKyazs3tvZAhUUTo8KHXDCCMM4HhDoAQg1MAQ#v=onepage&q=Barun%20De&f=false Amiya P. Sen, "Rammohan Roy", in Mahendra Prasad Singh and Himanshu Roy, ''Indian Political Thought: Themes and Thinkers'', (Delhi, Pearson, 2011), p. 68]</ref>
*(ed.) ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', (Calcutta: Jadavpur Session, 1974)
*(ed.) ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', (Aligarh: Aligarh Session, 1975)
*(et al. eds.) ''Essays in Honour of Professor Sushobhan Chandra Sarkar'' (New Delhi, 1975)<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=xJgDawlnknwC&pg=PA190 "Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital: Rural Bengal since 1770" - Sugata Bose] 2015-02-19.</ref>
*''Freedom Struggle'' (New Delhi, 1972), (co-authored with [[Bipan Chandra]] and Amalesh Tripathi)<ref>[https://www.amazon.in/Freedom-Struggle-Bipan-Chandra/dp/8123702493 "Freedom Struggle" - Bipan Chandra, Amalesh Tripathi and Barun De] Retrieved 2015-02-18.</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.cssscal.org/ Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]
*[http://www.makaias.gov.in/ Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta]

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Barun De

2022-02-04T13:42:22Z

BDe2021: /* Career */

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'''Barun De''' ({{lang-bn|'''বরুণ দে'''}}) (30 October, 1932 – 16 July, 2013) ({{lang-bn|১৩ কার্তিক, ১৩৩৯ - ৩১ আষাঢ়, ১৪২০}}) was an Indian historian and institution builder.

==Early life and education==
De, a member of a Kayastha-Brahmo family of Calcutta<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130718/jsp/calcutta/story_17126553.jsp |title=Historian Barun De dead |date=18 July 2013 |accessdate=2016-08-15}}</ref><ref name="HT20130718">{{cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/kolkata/Historian-Barun-De-passes-away/Article-1094187.aspx |date=18 July 2013 |title=Historian Barun De passes away |publisher=Hindustan Times |accessdate=4 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131010131755/http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/kolkata/Historian-Barun-De-passes-away/Article-1094187.aspx |archivedate=10 October 2013 }}</ref>, was the son of [[Draft: Basanta Kumar De|Basanta Kumar De]]<ref name="frontline1">[http://www.frontline.in/other/obituary/historian-and-administrator/article4995294.ece "Historian and Administrator" - Aniruddha Ray] Retrieved 2015-03-03</ref> and Pramila De (nee Gupta). His grandfather was [[Brajendranath De]].<ref name="vmh">[http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/official_info/victoria_newsletter_feb2014.pdf Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, 'Obituary' in the ''Victoria Memorial Newsletter'', 2014]</ref> He studied at St. Xavier's Collegiate School, Calcutta. He completed his I.A. & B.A. (Honours) in History at Presidency College, Calcutta, where he was a student of [[Susobhan Sarkar|Susobhan Chandra Sarkar]]. He was a debate secretary of the student's union of the college.

De completed his 2nd B.A. (Honours School) at St. Catherine's Society, Oxford, where his tutors were George Holmes and Wilfred Knapp. He completed his D.Phil. thesis on "Henry Dundas and the Government of India, 1784-1801" under the supervision of Colin Cuthbert Davies<ref name="telegraphindia1">
{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130718/jsp/opinion/story_17126533.jsp#.vOvi_Tb9nIU |title=Clio's Disciple |first=Rudrangshu|last=Mukherjee |date=18 July 2013 |accessdate=2015-02-24}}</ref> on a Beit studentship at Nuffield College, Oxford. As the holder of this scholarship he took classes in the college. He was awarded the Curzon Memorial Prize for his essay "Macaulay and India". He was secretary, treasurer and president of the Oxford India Majlis.<ref name="thestatesman1">[http://www.thestatesman.com/news/6074-Historian-Barun-De-dead.html "Historian Barun De dead" - The Statesman, 18 July 2013] Retrieved 2015-03-05.</ref>

After returning from Oxford, he formed a lasting friendship with [[Saiyid Nurul Hasan]].<ref name="thetelegraphindia">{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150405/jsp/opinion/story_12677.jsp#.V7E5UjgkrIU |title=State of Abounding Grace |first=Gopal Krishna|last=Gandhi |date=2015 |accessdate=2016-08-15}}</ref>

==Career==
De was a lecturer at the University of Calcutta, a reader at the University of Burdwan, an associate professor and programme director of the Post-Graduate Programme (later Post-Graduate Diploma in Management) and then professor and senior professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta,<ref name="timesofindia1"/><ref name="businessstandard">[https://www.business-standard.com Rudrangshu Mukherjee, 'Ashok Mitra (1928-2018): A Voice of Dissent with a Tender Heart', Business Standard, 2 May, 2018]</ref> a professor and the founder-director of the [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]], and the honorary state editor of the West Bengal District Gazetteers.<ref name="ihr1">[http://ihr.sagepub.com/content/41/1/147.full.pdf+html "Professor Barun De (1932-2013)" - Sabyasachi Bhattacharya] Indian Historical Review. Retrieved 2015-03-15.</ref>

He has taught and worked at various universities in India and abroad, such as Duke University as visiting associate professor, the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, [[Shimla]], as senior fellow,<ref name="thestatesman1"/> ''Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme'', Paris as ''directeur'', and University of Sydney and University of Milan as visiting professor. He was a delegate to several conferences of the United Nations University held at Madrid, Tokyo, Caracass, Mexico City and Berlin.

He was a member of the [[Indian Council of Historical Research]], New Delhi, the Indian Council for Social Science Research, New Delhi, the Executive Council (''Karma Samity'') of Vishva Bharati University, Santiniketan, the West Bengal Higher Education Commission and the Executive Council of the A.N. Sinha Institute, Patna. He was secretary, sectional president and general president of the Indian History Congress.<ref name="frontline1"/>

De formally retired from service in 1993.

==Post-retirement==

Soon after his retirement De was once again appointed as the director of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta. From 1997-1998, he was the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad fellow
of this institute.<ref name="telegraphindia1"/> He was a member of the Indian Council of Cultural Relations in this period. From 1998-2001 he was the India Chair (in the rank of minister-counsellor), with attachment to the Indian Embassy of Uzbekistan, at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent.<ref name="businessstandard1">[http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/historian-barun-de-dies-at-80-113071700809_1.html "Historian Barun De dies at 80" - Business Standard] Retrieved 2015-03-06.</ref>

In this period he was a member of the textbook review committee of the National Council for Educational Research and Training (2004).<ref>[http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/arjun-singh-appoints-panel-to-review-ncert-textbooks/1/196584.html ''India Today'', 2004]</ref> chairman of the West Bengal State Archives, Calcutta,<ref name="businessstandard1"/> vice president of the Center for Archaeology and Training, Calcutta, a vice president of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,<ref name="frontline1"/>
member of the Board of Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta,<ref name="frontline1"/>, and member of the Court of Vishva Bharati University, Santiniketan.

He was a member of the Heritage Conservation Committee of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, in which capacity he was among the several people who prepared a list of heritage buildings of West Bengal.<ref>[https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/downloads/Graded_List_of_Heritage_Buildings_Grade_I_IIA_IIB.pdf "Heritage Conservation Committee"] p. 3. Retrieved 2015-03-23</ref> ''[[The Times of India]]'' has described him as "a pioneer of the heritage movement of West Bengal"<ref name="timesofindia1">[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Historian-scholar-Barun-De-dies-at-80/articleshow/21156245.cms "The Times of India" - Staff Reporter] Retrieved 2015-02-27.</ref> From 2001-2008 he was a member of the West Bengal Heritage Commission of which he was the honorary chairman (in the rank of minister-of-state) from 2008-2011.<ref name="businessstandard1"/>

From 2011-2013 he was a Tagore national fellow, which he held at the Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta.<ref name="victoriamemorialnewsletter1">[http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/official_info/victoria_newsletter_feb2014.pdf "Obituary" in the ''Victoria Memorial Newsletter'' - Sabyasachi Bhattacharya] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226153443/http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/official_info/victoria_newsletter_feb2014.pdf |date=2015-02-26 }} Retrieved 2015-0317.</ref>

==Research==
De's research spanned from early to the late modern period of Indian history. In the earlier part of his career he wrote on Henry Dundas and the conquest of India. Later, he addressed the Marxist critique of the colonial context of the Bengal renaissance.<ref>[http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/a-great-conversationalist-intellectual/article4925060.ece "A Conversationalist Intellectual - Sugata Bose"] Retrieved 2015-03-27.</ref>

He was also concerned with the national movement. His popular textbook book, ''Freedom Struggle'', co-authored with [[Bipan Chandra]] and Amalesh Tripathi,<ref name="telegraphindia1"/> was censored by the Indian government that came to power at the Centre in 1977,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=4DlMSrtOGLIC&pg=PA272 "Censorship of Historical Thought: A World Guide" - Antoon de Baets] Retrieved 2015-02-21.</ref> although he was well-known for his criticism of India's first emergency.<ref name="proceedingsoftheindianhistorycongress">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44156392?seq=1&loggedin=true#page_scan_tab_contents Irfan Habib, "Professor Barun De (1932-2013)" in ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', Vol. 73, 2012, p. 1554]</ref> This book has been translated into Bengali by Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya.<ref>[http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article4385.html "Historian Barun De passes away - Panchanan Chattopadhyay"]. ''Mainstreamweekly''. Retrieved 2015-03-23.</ref>

In 1975 he edited a thick volume in honour of Susobhan Chandra Sarkar, in which he wrote the main essay on his teacher which reveals his preference for objectivity and critical analysis.<ref name="proceedingsoftheindianhistorycongress1">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44156392?seq=2&loggedin=true#page_scan_tab_contents Irfan Habib, "Professor Barun De (1932-2013)" in ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', Volume 73, 2012, p. 1554]</ref> He edited the 24 Parganas and Darjeeling ''District Gazetteers''<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> and contributed to the editing of the Jalpaiguri District Gazetteers too.<ref name="districtgazetteers1">[https://books.google.com/books?id=UfToffd1KxMC&pg=PA201&lpg=PA201&dq=Barun+De,+Jalpaiguri+district+gazetteers&source=bl&ots=LCjhrE6fY2&sig=Rw9AXjtY445QnVTRA6XHXnuaZpU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjWy5HlxfzaAhXIqo8KHROuAZMQ6AEIQzAF#v=onepage&q=Barun%20De%2C%20Jalpaiguri%20district%20gazetteers&f=false Abani Mohan Kusari, West Bengal District GazetteersL Jalpaiguri, Gazetteer of India, Calcutta, Barun De, Honorary State Editor, West Bengal District Gazetteers, Calcutta, 1981 in Michael Lampert, Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012].</ref>

==Awards==
*D.Litt. (''Honouris Causa''), North Bengal University, 2000.<ref name="jagranjosh">[http://www.jagranjosh.com/current-affairs/barun-de-the-renowned-historian-and-academician-passed-away-at-80-1377577861-1 Akanksha Sharma, 'Barun De, The Renowned Historian and Academician Passed Away at 80' in ''Jagran Josh'', 17 July 2013]</ref>

*Banga Samman, 2008-09

==Legacy==

After De's death the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta had instituted a memorial lecture in his name.<ref>[http://makaias.gov.in/Programme_BarunDe_Memorial_Lecture1.pdf Barun De Memorial Lecture] Retrieved 2015-02-27.</ref> The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta has renamed its auditorium at the Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre after him.<ref name="jadunathbhavan">[http://jbmrc.cssscal.org/remembering-professor-barun-de/ Barun De Auditorium, CSSSC]</ref>

==Publications==

*''Secularism at Bay: Uzbekistan at the Turn of the Century'' (New Delhi, 2006)<ref>[https://books.google.com/books/about/Secularism_at_Bay.html?id=TjE74t1I9NsC&redir_esc=y "Secularism at Bay: Uzbekistan at the Turn of the Century" - Barun De] Retrieved 2015-02-17.</ref>
*(ed.) ''State, Development and Political Culture: Bangladesh and India'', (New Delhi, 1997) (co-edited with Ranabir Samaddar)
*(সম্পাদক) 'মুক্তি সংগ্রামে বাংলার ছাত্র-সমাজ' (কলকাতা, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ ইতিহাস সংসদ, ১৯৯২) (''Students of Bengal in the Struggle of Liberation'', Paschim Banga Itihas Samsad, 1992)
*(ed.) ''West Bengal District Gazetteers, 24 Parganas'', (Calcutta, 1983)
*(ed.) ''West Bengal District Gazetteers, Jalpaiguri'', (Calcutta, 1981) (co-edited with Abani Mohan Kusari).
*(ed.) ''West Bengal District Gazetteers, Darjeeling'', (Calcutta, 1980)
*''The Dialectics Between Response to Exogenous and Autochthonous Innovation in India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, with Special Reference to Modern Bengal'', (Tokyo: United Nations University, 1979)<ref name="unu">[https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1713550 The Dialectics Between Response to Exogenous and Autochthonous Innovation in India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, with Special Reference to Modern Bengal - Barun De] Retrieved 2018-01-12.</ref>
*(ed.) ''Perspectives in Social Sciences, 1: Historical Dimensions'' (New Delhi, 1977)<ref name="perspectivesinsocialscienceihistoricaldimensions">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/2055079?seq=1 David L.Curley (reviewer), ''Perspectives in Social Sciences I: Historical Dimension'', in ''The Journal of Asian Studies'', Vol. 40, No. 1, (Nov. 1980), pp. 158–60]</ref><ref name="perspectivesinsocialscienceshistoricaldimensions1">[https://books.google.com/books?id=GHxJDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT234&lpg=PT234&dq=Barun+De&source=bl&ots=X75XMnufBq&sig=zpY72FIOO7UfU3rH8I71SAT1GPc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi1qJrP29vZAhXHPo8KHZP4DMM4FBDoAQhDMAg#v=onepage&q=Barun%20De&f=false Chandak Sengoopta, ''The Rays before Satyajit: Creativity and Modernity in Colonial India'', (New Delhi, Oxford, 2016)]</ref>
* "A Biographical Perspective on the Political and Economic Ideas of Rammohun Ray", in V.C.Joshi, (ed.), ''Rammohun Roy and the Process of Modernisation in India'', New Delhi, 1975<ref name="indianpoliticalthought">[https://books.google.com/books?id=yP59iDghcIkC&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=Barun+De&source=bl&ots=JEIKcyzgDB&sig=bHJMaKGdoWOXXD6JRAzKMD9DZLY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiKyazs3tvZAhUUTo8KHXDCCMM4HhDoAQg1MAQ#v=onepage&q=Barun%20De&f=false Amiya P. Sen, "Rammohan Roy", in Mahendra Prasad Singh and Himanshu Roy, ''Indian Political Thought: Themes and Thinkers'', (Delhi, Pearson, 2011), p. 68]</ref>
*(ed.) ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', (Calcutta: Jadavpur Session, 1974)
*(ed.) ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', (Aligarh: Aligarh Session, 1975)
*(et al. eds.) ''Essays in Honour of Professor Sushobhan Chandra Sarkar'' (New Delhi, 1975)<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=xJgDawlnknwC&pg=PA190 "Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital: Rural Bengal since 1770" - Sugata Bose] 2015-02-19.</ref>
*''Freedom Struggle'' (New Delhi, 1972), (co-authored with [[Bipan Chandra]] and Amalesh Tripathi)<ref>[https://www.amazon.in/Freedom-Struggle-Bipan-Chandra/dp/8123702493 "Freedom Struggle" - Bipan Chandra, Amalesh Tripathi and Barun De] Retrieved 2015-02-18.</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.cssscal.org/ Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]
*[http://www.makaias.gov.in/ Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta]

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Barun De

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{{Infobox person
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1932|10|30}}
| birth_place=[[Calcutta]], [[Bengal]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2013|07|16|1932|10|30}}({{lang-bn|৮১}})
| death_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
| occupation =Historian
| years active =1961-2001
|spouse = Romabai De ({{lang-bn| রমাবাঈ দে}}) (nee Dutta Gupta) ({{lang-bn|দত্তগুপ্ত}})
|children = 2
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'''Barun De''' ({{lang-bn|'''বরুণ দে'''}}) (30 October, 1932 – 16 July, 2013) ({{lang-bn|১৩ কার্তিক, ১৩৩৯ - ৩১ আষাঢ়, ১৪২০}}) was an Indian historian and institution builder.

==Early life and education==
De, a member of a Kayastha-Brahmo family of Calcutta<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130718/jsp/calcutta/story_17126553.jsp |title=Historian Barun De dead |date=18 July 2013 |accessdate=2016-08-15}}</ref><ref name="HT20130718">{{cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/kolkata/Historian-Barun-De-passes-away/Article-1094187.aspx |date=18 July 2013 |title=Historian Barun De passes away |publisher=Hindustan Times |accessdate=4 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131010131755/http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/kolkata/Historian-Barun-De-passes-away/Article-1094187.aspx |archivedate=10 October 2013 }}</ref>, was the son of [[Draft: Basanta Kumar De|Basanta Kumar De]]<ref name="frontline1">[http://www.frontline.in/other/obituary/historian-and-administrator/article4995294.ece "Historian and Administrator" - Aniruddha Ray] Retrieved 2015-03-03</ref> and Pramila De (nee Gupta). His grandfather was [[Brajendranath De]].<ref name="vmh">[http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/official_info/victoria_newsletter_feb2014.pdf Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, 'Obituary' in the ''Victoria Memorial Newsletter'', 2014]</ref> He studied at St. Xavier's Collegiate School, Calcutta. He completed his I.A. & B.A. (Honours) in History at Presidency College, Calcutta, where he was a student of [[Susobhan Sarkar|Susobhan Chandra Sarkar]]. He was a debate secretary of the student's union of the college.

De completed his 2nd B.A. (Honours School) at St. Catherine's Society, Oxford, where his tutors were George Holmes and Wilfred Knapp. He completed his D.Phil. thesis on "Henry Dundas and the Government of India, 1784-1801" under the supervision of Colin Cuthbert Davies<ref name="telegraphindia1">
{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130718/jsp/opinion/story_17126533.jsp#.vOvi_Tb9nIU |title=Clio's Disciple |first=Rudrangshu|last=Mukherjee |date=18 July 2013 |accessdate=2015-02-24}}</ref> on a Beit studentship at Nuffield College, Oxford. As the holder of this scholarship he took classes in the college. He was awarded the Curzon Memorial Prize for his essay "Macaulay and India". He was secretary, treasurer and president of the Oxford India Majlis.<ref name="thestatesman1">[http://www.thestatesman.com/news/6074-Historian-Barun-De-dead.html "Historian Barun De dead" - The Statesman, 18 July 2013] Retrieved 2015-03-05.</ref>

After returning from Oxford, he formed a lasting friendship with [[Saiyid Nurul Hasan]].<ref name="thetelegraphindia">{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150405/jsp/opinion/story_12677.jsp#.V7E5UjgkrIU |title=State of Abounding Grace |first=Gopal Krishna|last=Gandhi |date=2015 |accessdate=2016-08-15}}</ref>

==Career==
De was a reader at the University of Burdwan, a senior professor and programme director of the Post-Graduate Programme (later Post-Graduate Diploma in Management) at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta,<ref name="timesofindia1"/><ref name="businessstandard">[https://www.business-standard.com Rudrangshu Mukherjee, 'Ashok Mitra (1928-2018): A Voice of Dissent with a Tender Heart', Business Standard, 2 May, 2018]</ref> a professor and the founder-director of the [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]], and the honorary state editor of the West Bengal District Gazetteers.<ref name="ihr1">[http://ihr.sagepub.com/content/41/1/147.full.pdf+html "Professor Barun De (1932-2013)" - Sabyasachi Bhattacharya] Indian Historical Review. Retrieved 2015-03-15.</ref>

He has taught and worked at various universities in India and abroad, such as Duke University as a visiting associate professor, the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, [[Shimla]], as a senior fellow,<ref name="thestatesman1"/> Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris as a directeur, and University of Sydney and University of Milan as a visiting professor.

He was a member of the [[Indian Council of Historical Research]], New Delhi, a member of the Indian Council for Social Science Research, New Delhi, a member of the Executive Council (Karma Samity) of Vishva Bharati University, Santiniketan, a member of the West Bengal Higher Education Commission and a member of the Executive Council of the A.N. Sinha Institute, Patna. He was secretary (1974-76), sectional president and general president (1988) of the Indian History Congress.<ref name="frontline1"/>

De formally retired from service in 1993.

==Post-retirement==

Soon after his retirement De was once again appointed as the director of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta. From 1997-1998, he was the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad fellow
of this institute.<ref name="telegraphindia1"/> He was a member of the Indian Council of Cultural Relations in this period. From 1998-2001 he was the India Chair (in the rank of minister-counsellor), with attachment to the Indian Embassy of Uzbekistan, at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent.<ref name="businessstandard1">[http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/historian-barun-de-dies-at-80-113071700809_1.html "Historian Barun De dies at 80" - Business Standard] Retrieved 2015-03-06.</ref>

In this period he was a member of the textbook review committee of the National Council for Educational Research and Training (2004).<ref>[http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/arjun-singh-appoints-panel-to-review-ncert-textbooks/1/196584.html ''India Today'', 2004]</ref> chairman of the West Bengal State Archives, Calcutta,<ref name="businessstandard1"/> vice president of the Center for Archaeology and Training, Calcutta, a vice president of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,<ref name="frontline1"/>
member of the Board of Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta,<ref name="frontline1"/>, and member of the Court of Vishva Bharati University, Santiniketan.

He was a member of the Heritage Conservation Committee of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, in which capacity he was among the several people who prepared a list of heritage buildings of West Bengal.<ref>[https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/downloads/Graded_List_of_Heritage_Buildings_Grade_I_IIA_IIB.pdf "Heritage Conservation Committee"] p. 3. Retrieved 2015-03-23</ref> ''[[The Times of India]]'' has described him as "a pioneer of the heritage movement of West Bengal"<ref name="timesofindia1">[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Historian-scholar-Barun-De-dies-at-80/articleshow/21156245.cms "The Times of India" - Staff Reporter] Retrieved 2015-02-27.</ref> From 2001-2008 he was a member of the West Bengal Heritage Commission of which he was the honorary chairman (in the rank of minister-of-state) from 2008-2011.<ref name="businessstandard1"/>

From 2011-2013 he was a Tagore national fellow, which he held at the Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta.<ref name="victoriamemorialnewsletter1">[http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/official_info/victoria_newsletter_feb2014.pdf "Obituary" in the ''Victoria Memorial Newsletter'' - Sabyasachi Bhattacharya] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226153443/http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/official_info/victoria_newsletter_feb2014.pdf |date=2015-02-26 }} Retrieved 2015-0317.</ref>

==Research==
De's research spanned from early to the late modern period of Indian history. In the earlier part of his career he wrote on Henry Dundas and the conquest of India. Later, he addressed the Marxist critique of the colonial context of the Bengal renaissance.<ref>[http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/a-great-conversationalist-intellectual/article4925060.ece "A Conversationalist Intellectual - Sugata Bose"] Retrieved 2015-03-27.</ref>

He was also concerned with the national movement. His popular textbook book, ''Freedom Struggle'', co-authored with [[Bipan Chandra]] and Amalesh Tripathi,<ref name="telegraphindia1"/> was censored by the Indian government that came to power at the Centre in 1977,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=4DlMSrtOGLIC&pg=PA272 "Censorship of Historical Thought: A World Guide" - Antoon de Baets] Retrieved 2015-02-21.</ref> although he was well-known for his criticism of India's first emergency.<ref name="proceedingsoftheindianhistorycongress">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44156392?seq=1&loggedin=true#page_scan_tab_contents Irfan Habib, "Professor Barun De (1932-2013)" in ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', Vol. 73, 2012, p. 1554]</ref> This book has been translated into Bengali by Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya.<ref>[http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article4385.html "Historian Barun De passes away - Panchanan Chattopadhyay"]. ''Mainstreamweekly''. Retrieved 2015-03-23.</ref>

In 1975 he edited a thick volume in honour of Susobhan Chandra Sarkar, in which he wrote the main essay on his teacher which reveals his preference for objectivity and critical analysis.<ref name="proceedingsoftheindianhistorycongress1">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44156392?seq=2&loggedin=true#page_scan_tab_contents Irfan Habib, "Professor Barun De (1932-2013)" in ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', Volume 73, 2012, p. 1554]</ref> He edited the 24 Parganas and Darjeeling ''District Gazetteers''<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> and contributed to the editing of the Jalpaiguri District Gazetteers too.<ref name="districtgazetteers1">[https://books.google.com/books?id=UfToffd1KxMC&pg=PA201&lpg=PA201&dq=Barun+De,+Jalpaiguri+district+gazetteers&source=bl&ots=LCjhrE6fY2&sig=Rw9AXjtY445QnVTRA6XHXnuaZpU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjWy5HlxfzaAhXIqo8KHROuAZMQ6AEIQzAF#v=onepage&q=Barun%20De%2C%20Jalpaiguri%20district%20gazetteers&f=false Abani Mohan Kusari, West Bengal District GazetteersL Jalpaiguri, Gazetteer of India, Calcutta, Barun De, Honorary State Editor, West Bengal District Gazetteers, Calcutta, 1981 in Michael Lampert, Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012].</ref>

==Awards==
*D.Litt. (''Honouris Causa''), North Bengal University, 2000.<ref name="jagranjosh">[http://www.jagranjosh.com/current-affairs/barun-de-the-renowned-historian-and-academician-passed-away-at-80-1377577861-1 Akanksha Sharma, 'Barun De, The Renowned Historian and Academician Passed Away at 80' in ''Jagran Josh'', 17 July 2013]</ref>

*Banga Samman, 2008-09

==Legacy==

After De's death the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta had instituted a memorial lecture in his name.<ref>[http://makaias.gov.in/Programme_BarunDe_Memorial_Lecture1.pdf Barun De Memorial Lecture] Retrieved 2015-02-27.</ref> The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta has renamed its auditorium at the Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre after him.<ref name="jadunathbhavan">[http://jbmrc.cssscal.org/remembering-professor-barun-de/ Barun De Auditorium, CSSSC]</ref>

==Publications==

*''Secularism at Bay: Uzbekistan at the Turn of the Century'' (New Delhi, 2006)<ref>[https://books.google.com/books/about/Secularism_at_Bay.html?id=TjE74t1I9NsC&redir_esc=y "Secularism at Bay: Uzbekistan at the Turn of the Century" - Barun De] Retrieved 2015-02-17.</ref>
*(ed.) ''State, Development and Political Culture: Bangladesh and India'', (New Delhi, 1997) (co-edited with Ranabir Samaddar)
*(সম্পাদক) 'মুক্তি সংগ্রামে বাংলার ছাত্র-সমাজ' (কলকাতা, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ ইতিহাস সংসদ, ১৯৯২) (''Students of Bengal in the Struggle of Liberation'', Paschim Banga Itihas Samsad, 1992)
*(ed.) ''West Bengal District Gazetteers, 24 Parganas'', (Calcutta, 1983)
*(ed.) ''West Bengal District Gazetteers, Jalpaiguri'', (Calcutta, 1981) (co-edited with Abani Mohan Kusari).
*(ed.) ''West Bengal District Gazetteers, Darjeeling'', (Calcutta, 1980)
*''The Dialectics Between Response to Exogenous and Autochthonous Innovation in India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, with Special Reference to Modern Bengal'', (Tokyo: United Nations University, 1979)<ref name="unu">[https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1713550 The Dialectics Between Response to Exogenous and Autochthonous Innovation in India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, with Special Reference to Modern Bengal - Barun De] Retrieved 2018-01-12.</ref>
*(ed.) ''Perspectives in Social Sciences, 1: Historical Dimensions'' (New Delhi, 1977)<ref name="perspectivesinsocialscienceihistoricaldimensions">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/2055079?seq=1 David L.Curley (reviewer), ''Perspectives in Social Sciences I: Historical Dimension'', in ''The Journal of Asian Studies'', Vol. 40, No. 1, (Nov. 1980), pp. 158–60]</ref><ref name="perspectivesinsocialscienceshistoricaldimensions1">[https://books.google.com/books?id=GHxJDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT234&lpg=PT234&dq=Barun+De&source=bl&ots=X75XMnufBq&sig=zpY72FIOO7UfU3rH8I71SAT1GPc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi1qJrP29vZAhXHPo8KHZP4DMM4FBDoAQhDMAg#v=onepage&q=Barun%20De&f=false Chandak Sengoopta, ''The Rays before Satyajit: Creativity and Modernity in Colonial India'', (New Delhi, Oxford, 2016)]</ref>
* "A Biographical Perspective on the Political and Economic Ideas of Rammohun Ray", in V.C.Joshi, (ed.), ''Rammohun Roy and the Process of Modernisation in India'', New Delhi, 1975<ref name="indianpoliticalthought">[https://books.google.com/books?id=yP59iDghcIkC&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=Barun+De&source=bl&ots=JEIKcyzgDB&sig=bHJMaKGdoWOXXD6JRAzKMD9DZLY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiKyazs3tvZAhUUTo8KHXDCCMM4HhDoAQg1MAQ#v=onepage&q=Barun%20De&f=false Amiya P. Sen, "Rammohan Roy", in Mahendra Prasad Singh and Himanshu Roy, ''Indian Political Thought: Themes and Thinkers'', (Delhi, Pearson, 2011), p. 68]</ref>
*(ed.) ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', (Calcutta: Jadavpur Session, 1974)
*(ed.) ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', (Aligarh: Aligarh Session, 1975)
*(et al. eds.) ''Essays in Honour of Professor Sushobhan Chandra Sarkar'' (New Delhi, 1975)<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=xJgDawlnknwC&pg=PA190 "Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital: Rural Bengal since 1770" - Sugata Bose] 2015-02-19.</ref>
*''Freedom Struggle'' (New Delhi, 1972), (co-authored with [[Bipan Chandra]] and Amalesh Tripathi)<ref>[https://www.amazon.in/Freedom-Struggle-Bipan-Chandra/dp/8123702493 "Freedom Struggle" - Bipan Chandra, Amalesh Tripathi and Barun De] Retrieved 2015-02-18.</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.cssscal.org/ Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]
*[http://www.makaias.gov.in/ Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta]

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Patha Bhavan, Kolkata

2022-01-31T03:43:56Z

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{{Use Indian English|date=May 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}
{{Infobox university
| name = Patha Bhavan
| image = Patha-Bhavan_logo.jpg
| established = 1965 (১৩৭২)
| type = Private school
| founder = Satyajit Ray, Uma Shehanobis
| principal = Subha Gupta
| city = [[Kolkata]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| country = [[India]]
| campus = Palm Avenue, Bondel Road, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Ballygunge, Kolkata
| faculty =
| students =
| website = [http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Primary School] [http://pathabhavan.in/ Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools]
}}
'''Patha Bhavan''' ('''পাঠভবন''') is a mixed medium independent co-educational day school in [[Kolkata]], [[India]], which is affiliated to the state secondary and higher secondary boards.<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140614/jsp/calcutta/story_18510076.jsp#.VbYvuWoVjIU|title='Humidity holiday for schools' in 'The Telegraph', Calcutta, 14 June, 2014|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="pathabhavanhighschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.org/ Official website of the High School]</ref> It was established on 28 June 1965 (১৩ আষাঢ়, ১৩৭২).<ref name="pathabhavanprimaryschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Official website of the Primary School]</ref>

==History==
[[File:Patha Bhavan High School.jpg|right|240px|Secondary Branch, Ballygunge Place]]
The school was named after Patha Bhavana (পাঠভবন),<ref name="pathabhavana">https://www.vishvabharati.in/patha-bhavana</ref> the university school of Vishva Bharati University (বিশ্বভারতী)<ref name="vishvabharati">https://www.vishvabharati.in/</ref>. It was inspired by the education system started by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] as well as the more progressive features of the Indian national movement. It was also influenced by the Bratachari (ব্রতচারি) movement of [[Gurusaday Dutt]].

The school was founded by the Patha Bhavan Society under the presidency of [[Literary works of Satyajit Ray|Satyajit Ray]]. [[Susobhan Sarkar]], Tarun Bose, who was a judge of the High Court of Calcutta, and Amiya Bose, an opthalmologist helped Ray set up the school. Ray designed the school's logo. Jyotirindra Moitra, an exponent of Rabindrasangeet, wrote the school's song, ''Amader Patha Bhavan'' (''আমাদের পাঠভবন''). Others who played a pivotal role in the school's establishment included [[Mira Datta Gupta]] and Uma Sehanobis, under whose guidance a group of teachers came forward to found the school. This included Nandita Mitra and Manjushree Dasgupta, the school's first-principal and first-vice principal respectively.

Later, [[Santosh Bhattacharyya]], and [[Barun De]] served as the general secretary of the Governing Body of the school.

==Objectives==
The objectives of the founders of this school, which aims to prepare its students for undergraduate level college education, was two-fold from the beginning: the establishment of a co-educational school in [[Calcutta]] which would offer education in both Bengali and English, and not placing too much stress on examinations, although half-yearly and annual tests were held from the school's inception. The first batch of students from the school took the Madhyamik (মাধ্যমিক) (Secondary) Board Examination in 1972.

==Academic==
The school has montessori, primary, secondary and higher secondary/junior college branches at different locations. The higher secondary branch offers subject combinations in the sciences, arts and commerce.

===Language policy===
The school offers education in the mixed medium. At the start of primary school, a student is streamlined into the Bengali or the English medium. Each standard used to have four sections, of which two were held in Bengali and two in English. Now, there are five sections, of which one is held in Bengali and four in English.

The two other languages taught were Sanskrit and Hindi, which were offered as third languages from the seventh to the ninth standards. But now the only third language is Hindi. Third language is compulsory for all students.

==Cultural activities==
Since one of the main objectives of the school is to encourage education in Bengali both inside and outside the classrooms, it culturally identifies itself with the Santiniketan Patha Bhavana and holds programmes which have been traditionally held in that school, such as the ''Sahitya Sabhas''.

''Sahitya Sabhas'' and other annual events, such as ''Basanta Utsab'' (বসন্ত উৎসব) and Shakespeare Day, are held where students participate in reading, writing and reciting Bengali short stories and poems and stage plays. ''Baishey Sravan'' is celebrated and observed every year. So is the International Mother Tongue Day (মাতৃভাষা দিবস) on 21 February (একুশে ফেব্রুয়ারি). ''Joy Baba Phelunath'' (''The Elephant God'') was premiered in the school.

==Houses==
Students of the school are placed in houses named after four ancient Indian universities. They are:

*Nalanda (নালন্দা) (Green) (সবুজ)
*Takshashila (তক্ষশীলা) (Yellow) (হলুদ)
*Ujjaini (উজ্জয়িনী) (Blue) (নীল)
*Vikramshila (বিক্রমশীলা) (Red) (লাল)

==Sports==
The school has its own cricket and football team. The sports ground is located on Fern Road. The annual sports day is held at the Rabindra Sarovar (রবীন্দ্র সরোবর) stadium in Kolkata.

==Administration==
The different branches of the school are administered separately. The high school is administered by an executive council which has a president and a general secretary. The daily administration of the school is in the hands of the principal.

==Branches==
There are two independent branches of the school. The first one, in Ballygunge, Kolkata and the second one, a new branch opened in 1992, at Dankuni, Hooghly, are both administered by the Patha Bhavan Society.

==Affiliations==
The secondary and higher secondary branches of the school are affiliated to the [[West Bengal Board of Secondary Education]] (পশ্চিমবঙ্গ মধ্য শিক্ষা পর্ষদ) and the [[West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education]] (পশ্চিমবঙ্গ উচ্চ শিক্ষা পর্ষদ).<ref name="schoolconnects">[https://schoolconnects.in/patha-bhavan-ballygunge-place Patha Bhavan, 8/2, Gariahat Road, Kolkata]</ref>

==Reputation==
According to a National school survey in 2008, Patha Bhavan was placed 7th in 'Academic Reputation', 7th in 'Honesty/Integrity', 10th in 'Quality of Alumni' and 4th in 'Value for Money'.<ref name="pathabhavankolkata">[http://educationworldonline.net/articles/Parameters%20of%20excellence%20India's%20top%2010%20day%20schools.pdf 'Cover Story' in 'EW Day School Ranking', 2008]</ref>

==Location==
The four branches of the school are located at four different sites of Ballygunge in Kolkata. The montessori and primary wings, which function under a single administration, are located at premises on Swinhoe Street (সুইনহো স্ট্রিট) and Palm Avenue (পাম এভেনিউ) in Kolkata respectively. The High School and the humanities wing of the Higher Secondary branch are located at 'Delta House' (ডেল্টা হাউস), 103, A & C, Bondel Road
(বন্ডেল রোড) , Kolkata, although the main gate of the school opens on Ballygunge Place (now Amiya Bose Sarani or অমিয় বোস সরণী), while the science wing of the Higher Secondary branch is now located at 8/2, Gariahat Road (গড়িয়াহাট রোড) (formerly Merlin Park or মর্লিন পার্ক), Kolkata.

==Notable alumni==
*[[Paroma Banerjee]], eminent singer.
*[[Kaushiki Chakrabarty]], eminent singer.
*[[Kushal Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Lagnajita Chakraborty]], rising Bengali singer.
*[[Soham Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Parambrata Chatterjee]], film and television actor.
*[[Siddartha Chatterjee]], film artist.
*[[Aparajita Ghosh Das]], television actress.
*[[Anik Dutta]], film director.
*[[Maitreesh Ghatak]], Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, University of London.
*[[Amit Kumar]], playback singer.
*[[Sandip Ray]], film director.
*[[Gargi Roychowdhury]], film and television actress.
*[[Srabani Sen]], eminent singer.

==External links==
*[http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/InstitutionsCentresSchools/Contents/SchoolsContents.htm?f=../Contents/PathaBhavana.htm Santiniketan Patha Bhavana]
*[http://www.pathabhavandankuni.org/ Dankuni Patha Bhavan]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{coord missing|West Bengal}}

[[Category:Co-educational schools in India]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1965]]
[[Category:High schools and secondary schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Private schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Primary schools in West Bengal]]
[[Category:1965 establishments in West Bengal]]

Patha Bhavan, Kolkata

2022-01-31T03:40:35Z

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{{Use Indian English|date=May 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}
{{Infobox university
| name = Patha Bhavan
| image = Patha-Bhavan_logo.jpg
| established = 1965 (১৩৭২)
| type = Private school
| founder = Satyajit Ray, Uma Shehanobis
| principal = Subha Gupta
| city = [[Kolkata]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| country = [[India]]
| campus = Palm Avenue, Bondel Road, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Ballygunge, Kolkata
| faculty =
| students =
| website = [http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Primary School] [http://pathabhavan.in/ Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools]
}}
'''Patha Bhavan''' ('''পাঠভবন''') is a mixed medium independent co-educational day school in [[Kolkata]], [[India]], which is affiliated to the state secondary and higher secondary boards.<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140614/jsp/calcutta/story_18510076.jsp#.VbYvuWoVjIU|title='Humidity holiday for schools' in 'The Telegraph', Calcutta, 14 June, 2014|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="pathabhavanhighschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.org/ Official website of the High School]</ref> It was established on 28 June 1965 (১৪ আষাঢ়, ১৩৭২).<ref name="pathabhavanprimaryschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Official website of the Primary School]</ref>

==History==
[[File:Patha Bhavan High School.jpg|right|240px|Secondary Branch, Ballygunge Place]]
The school was named after Patha Bhavana (পাঠভবন),<ref name="pathabhavana">https://www.vishvabharati.in/patha-bhavana</ref> the university school of Vishva Bharati University (বিশ্বভারতী)<ref name="vishvabharati">https://www.vishvabharati.in/</ref>. It was inspired by the education system started by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] as well as the more progressive features of the Indian national movement. It was also influenced by the Bratachari (ব্রতচারি) movement of [[Gurusaday Dutt]].

The school was founded by the Patha Bhavan Society under the presidency of [[Literary works of Satyajit Ray|Satyajit Ray]]. [[Susobhan Sarkar]], Tarun Bose, who was a judge of the High Court of Calcutta, and Amiya Bose, an opthalmologist helped Ray set up the school. Ray designed the school's logo. Jyotirindra Moitra, an exponent of Rabindrasangeet, wrote the school's song, ''Amader Patha Bhavan'' (''আমাদের পাঠভবন''). Others who played a pivotal role in the school's establishment included [[Mira Datta Gupta]] and Uma Sehanobis, under whose guidance a group of teachers came forward to found the school. This included Nandita Mitra and Manjushree Dasgupta, the school's first-principal and first-vice principal respectively.

Later, [[Santosh Bhattacharyya]], and [[Barun De]] served as the general secretary of the Governing Body of the school.

==Objectives==
The objectives of the founders of this school, which aims to prepare its students for undergraduate level college education, was two-fold from the beginning: the establishment of a co-educational school in [[Calcutta]] which would offer education in both Bengali and English, and not placing too much stress on examinations, although half-yearly and annual tests were held from the school's inception. The first batch of students from the school took the Madhyamik (মাধ্যমিক) (Secondary) Board Examination in 1972.

==Academic==
The school has montessori, primary, secondary and higher secondary/junior college branches at different locations. The higher secondary branch offers subject combinations in the sciences, arts and commerce.

===Language policy===
The school offers education in the mixed medium. At the start of primary school, a student is streamlined into the Bengali or the English medium. Each standard used to have four sections, of which two were held in Bengali and two in English. Now, there are five sections, of which one is held in Bengali and four in English.

The two other languages taught were Sanskrit and Hindi, which were offered as third languages from the seventh to the ninth standards. But now the only third language is Hindi. Third language is compulsory for all students.

==Cultural activities==
Since one of the main objectives of the school is to encourage education in Bengali both inside and outside the classrooms, it culturally identifies itself with the Santiniketan Patha Bhavana and holds programmes which have been traditionally held in that school, such as the ''Sahitya Sabhas''.

''Sahitya Sabhas'' and other annual events, such as ''Basanta Utsab'' (বসন্ত উৎসব) and Shakespeare Day, are held where students participate in reading, writing and reciting Bengali short stories and poems and stage plays. ''Baishey Sravan'' is celebrated and observed every year. So is the International Mother Tongue Day (মাতৃভাষা দিবস) on 21 February (একুশে ফেব্রুয়ারি). ''Joy Baba Phelunath'' (''The Elephant God'') was premiered in the school.

==Houses==
Students of the school are placed in houses named after four ancient Indian universities. They are:

*Nalanda (নালন্দা) (Green) (সবুজ)
*Takshashila (তক্ষশীলা) (Yellow) (হলুদ)
*Ujjaini (উজ্জয়িনী) (Blue) (নীল)
*Vikramshila (বিক্রমশীলা) (Red) (লাল)

==Sports==
The school has its own cricket and football team. The sports ground is located on Fern Road. The annual sports day is held at the Rabindra Sarovar (রবীন্দ্র সরোবর) stadium in Kolkata.

==Administration==
The different branches of the school are administered separately. The high school is administered by an executive council which has a president and a general secretary. The daily administration of the school is in the hands of the principal.

==Branches==
There are two independent branches of the school. The first one, in Ballygunge, Kolkata and the second one, a new branch opened in 1992, at Dankuni, Hooghly, are both administered by the Patha Bhavan Society.

==Affiliations==
The secondary and higher secondary branches of the school are affiliated to the [[West Bengal Board of Secondary Education]] (পশ্চিমবঙ্গ মধ্য শিক্ষা পর্ষদ) and the [[West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education]] (পশ্চিমবঙ্গ উচ্চ শিক্ষা পর্ষদ).<ref name="schoolconnects">[https://schoolconnects.in/patha-bhavan-ballygunge-place Patha Bhavan, 8/2, Gariahat Road, Kolkata]</ref>

==Reputation==
According to a National school survey in 2008, Patha Bhavan was placed 7th in 'Academic Reputation', 7th in 'Honesty/Integrity', 10th in 'Quality of Alumni' and 4th in 'Value for Money'.<ref name="pathabhavankolkata">[http://educationworldonline.net/articles/Parameters%20of%20excellence%20India's%20top%2010%20day%20schools.pdf 'Cover Story' in 'EW Day School Ranking', 2008]</ref>

==Location==
The four branches of the school are located at four different sites of Ballygunge in Kolkata. The montessori and primary wings, which function under a single administration, are located at premises on Swinhoe Street (সুইনহো স্ট্রিট) and Palm Avenue (পাম এভেনিউ) in Kolkata respectively. The High School and the humanities wing of the Higher Secondary branch are located at 'Delta House' (ডেল্টা হাউস), 103, A & C, Bondel Road
(বন্ডেল রোড) , Kolkata, although the main gate of the school opens on Ballygunge Place (now Amiya Bose Sarani or অমিয় বোস সরণী), while the science wing of the Higher Secondary branch is now located at 8/2, Gariahat Road (গড়িয়াহাট রোড) (formerly Merlin Park or মর্লিন পার্ক), Kolkata.

==Notable alumni==
*[[Paroma Banerjee]], eminent singer.
*[[Kaushiki Chakrabarty]], eminent singer.
*[[Kushal Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Lagnajita Chakraborty]], rising Bengali singer.
*[[Soham Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Parambrata Chatterjee]], film and television actor.
*[[Siddartha Chatterjee]], film artist.
*[[Aparajita Ghosh Das]], television actress.
*[[Anik Dutta]], film director.
*[[Maitreesh Ghatak]], Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, University of London.
*[[Amit Kumar]], playback singer.
*[[Sandip Ray]], film director.
*[[Gargi Roychowdhury]], film and television actress.
*[[Srabani Sen]], eminent singer.

==External links==
*[http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/InstitutionsCentresSchools/Contents/SchoolsContents.htm?f=../Contents/PathaBhavana.htm Santiniketan Patha Bhavana]
*[http://www.pathabhavandankuni.org/ Dankuni Patha Bhavan]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{coord missing|West Bengal}}

[[Category:Co-educational schools in India]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1965]]
[[Category:High schools and secondary schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Private schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Primary schools in West Bengal]]
[[Category:1965 establishments in West Bengal]]

Patha Bhavan, Kolkata

2022-01-31T03:38:25Z

BDe2021:

{{Use Indian English|date=May 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}
{{Infobox university
| name = Patha Bhavan
| image = Patha-Bhavan_logo.jpg
| established = 1965 (১৩৭২)
| type = Private school
| founder = Satyajit Ray, Uma Shehanobis
| principal = Subha Gupta
| city = [[Kolkata]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| country = [[India]]
| campus = Palm Avenue, Bondel Road, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Ballygunge, Kolkata
| faculty =
| students =
| website = [http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Primary School] [http://pathabhavan.in/ Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools]
}}
'''Patha Bhavan''' ('''পাঠভবন''') is a mixed medium independent co-educational day school in [[Kolkata]], [[India]], which is affiliated to the state secondary and higher secondary boards.<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140614/jsp/calcutta/story_18510076.jsp#.VbYvuWoVjIU|title='Humidity holiday for schools' in 'The Telegraph', Calcutta, 14 June, 2014|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="pathabhavanhighschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.org/ Official website of the High School]</ref> It was established on 28 June 1965 (১৪ আষাঢ়, ১৩৭২).<ref name="pathabhavanprimaryschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Official website of the Primary School]</ref>

==History==
[[File:Patha Bhavan High School.jpg|right|240px|Secondary Branch, Ballygunge Place]]
The school was named after Patha Bhavana,<ref name="pathabhavana">https://www.vishvabharati.in/patha-bhavana</ref> the university school of Vishva Bharati University<ref name="vishvabharati">https://www.vishvabharati.in/</ref>. It was inspired by the education system started by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] as well as the more progressive features of the Indian national movement. It was also influenced by the Bratachari movement of [[Gurusaday Dutt]].

The school was founded by the Patha Bhavan Society under the presidency of [[Literary works of Satyajit Ray|Satyajit Ray]]. [[Susobhan Sarkar]], Tarun Bose, who was a judge of the High Court of Calcutta, and Amiya Bose, an opthalmologist helped Ray set up the school. Ray designed the school's logo. Jyotirindra Moitra, an exponent of Rabindrasangeet, wrote the school's song, ''Amader Patha Bhavan'' (''আমাদের পাঠভবন''). Others who played a pivotal role in the school's establishment included [[Mira Datta Gupta]] and Uma Sehanobis, under whose guidance a group of teachers came forward to found the school. This included Nandita Mitra and Manjushree Dasgupta, the school's first-principal and first-vice principal respectively.

Later, [[Santosh Bhattacharyya]], and [[Barun De]] served as the general secretary of the Governing Body of the school.

==Objectives==
The objectives of the founders of this school, which aims to prepare its students for undergraduate level college education, was two-fold from the beginning: the establishment of a co-educational school in [[Calcutta]] which would offer education in both Bengali and English, and not placing too much stress on examinations, although half-yearly and annual tests were held from the school's inception. The first batch of students from the school took the Madhyamik (মাধ্যমিক) (Secondary) Board Examination in 1972.

==Academic==
The school has montessori, primary, secondary and higher secondary/junior college branches at different locations. The higher secondary branch offers subject combinations in the sciences, arts and commerce.

===Language policy===
The school offers education in the mixed medium. At the start of primary school, a student is streamlined into the Bengali or the English medium. Each standard used to have four sections, of which two were held in Bengali and two in English. Now, there are five sections, of which one is held in Bengali and four in English.

The two other languages taught were Sanskrit and Hindi, which were offered as third languages from the seventh to the ninth standards. But now the only third language is Hindi. Third language is compulsory for all students.

==Cultural activities==
Since one of the main objectives of the school is to encourage education in Bengali both inside and outside the classrooms, it culturally identifies itself with the Santiniketan Patha Bhavana and holds programmes which have been traditionally held in that school, such as the ''Sahitya Sabhas''.

''Sahitya Sabhas'' and other annual events, such as ''Basanta Utsab'' (বসন্ত উৎসব) and Shakespeare Day, are held where students participate in reading, writing and reciting Bengali short stories and poems and stage plays. ''Baishey Sravan'' is celebrated and observed every year. So is the International Mother Tongue Day (মাতৃভাষা দিবস) on 21 February (একুশে ফেব্রুয়ারি). ''Joy Baba Phelunath'' (''The Elephant God'') was premiered in the school.

==Houses==
Students of the school are placed in houses named after four ancient Indian universities. They are:

*Nalanda (নালন্দা) (Green) (সবুজ)
*Takshashila (তক্ষশীলা) (Yellow) (হলুদ)
*Ujjaini (উজ্জয়িনী) (Blue) (নীল)
*Vikramshila (বিক্রমশীলা) (Red) (লাল)

==Sports==
The school has its own cricket and football team. The sports ground is located on Fern Road. The annual sports day is held at the Rabindra Sarovar (রবীন্দ্র সরোবর) stadium in Kolkata.

==Administration==
The different branches of the school are administered separately. The high school is administered by an executive council which has a president and a general secretary. The daily administration of the school is in the hands of the principal.

==Branches==
There are two independent branches of the school. The first one, in Ballygunge, Kolkata and the second one, a new branch opened in 1992, at Dankuni, Hooghly, are both administered by the Patha Bhavan Society.

==Affiliations==
The secondary and higher secondary branches of the school are affiliated to the [[West Bengal Board of Secondary Education]] (পশ্চিমবঙ্গ মধ্য শিক্ষা পর্ষদ) and the [[West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education]] (পশ্চিমবঙ্গ উচ্চ শিক্ষা পর্ষদ).<ref name="schoolconnects">[https://schoolconnects.in/patha-bhavan-ballygunge-place Patha Bhavan, 8/2, Gariahat Road, Kolkata]</ref>

==Reputation==
According to a National school survey in 2008, Patha Bhavan was placed 7th in 'Academic Reputation', 7th in 'Honesty/Integrity', 10th in 'Quality of Alumni' and 4th in 'Value for Money'.<ref name="pathabhavankolkata">[http://educationworldonline.net/articles/Parameters%20of%20excellence%20India's%20top%2010%20day%20schools.pdf 'Cover Story' in 'EW Day School Ranking', 2008]</ref>

==Location==
The four branches of the school are located at four different sites of Ballygunge in Kolkata. The montessori and primary wings, which function under a single administration, are located at premises on Swinhoe Street (সুইনহো স্ট্রিট) and Palm Avenue (পাম এভেনিউ) in Kolkata respectively. The High School and the humanities wing of the Higher Secondary branch are located at 'Delta House' (ডেল্টা হাউস), 103, A & C, Bondel Road
(বন্ডেল রোড) , Kolkata, although the main gate of the school opens on Ballygunge Place (now Amiya Bose Sarani or অমিয় বোস সরণী), while the science wing of the Higher Secondary branch is now located at 8/2, Gariahat Road (গড়িয়াহাট রোড) (formerly Merlin Park or মর্লিন পার্ক), Kolkata.

==Notable alumni==
*[[Paroma Banerjee]], eminent singer.
*[[Kaushiki Chakrabarty]], eminent singer.
*[[Kushal Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Lagnajita Chakraborty]], rising Bengali singer.
*[[Soham Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Parambrata Chatterjee]], film and television actor.
*[[Siddartha Chatterjee]], film artist.
*[[Aparajita Ghosh Das]], television actress.
*[[Anik Dutta]], film director.
*[[Maitreesh Ghatak]], Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, University of London.
*[[Amit Kumar]], playback singer.
*[[Sandip Ray]], film director.
*[[Gargi Roychowdhury]], film and television actress.
*[[Srabani Sen]], eminent singer.

==External links==
*[http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/InstitutionsCentresSchools/Contents/SchoolsContents.htm?f=../Contents/PathaBhavana.htm Santiniketan Patha Bhavana]
*[http://www.pathabhavandankuni.org/ Dankuni Patha Bhavan]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{coord missing|West Bengal}}

[[Category:Co-educational schools in India]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1965]]
[[Category:High schools and secondary schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Private schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Primary schools in West Bengal]]
[[Category:1965 establishments in West Bengal]]

Patha Bhavan, Kolkata

2022-01-31T03:35:11Z

BDe2021:

{{Use Indian English|date=May 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}
{{Infobox university
| name = Patha Bhavan
| image = Patha-Bhavan_logo.jpg
| established = 1965
| type = Private school
| founder = Satyajit Ray, Uma Shehanobis
| principal = Subha Gupta
| city = [[Kolkata]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| country = [[India]]
| campus = Palm Avenue, Bondel Road, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Ballygunge, Kolkata
| faculty =
| students =
| website = [http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Primary School] [http://pathabhavan.in/ Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools]
}}
'''Patha Bhavan''' ('''পাঠভবন''') is a mixed medium independent co-educational day school in [[Kolkata]], [[India]], which is affiliated to the state secondary and higher secondary boards.<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140614/jsp/calcutta/story_18510076.jsp#.VbYvuWoVjIU|title='Humidity holiday for schools' in 'The Telegraph', Calcutta, 14 June, 2014|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="pathabhavanhighschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.org/ Official website of the High School]</ref> It was established on 28 June 1965.<ref name="pathabhavanprimaryschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Official website of the Primary School]</ref>

==History==
[[File:Patha Bhavan High School.jpg|right|240px|Secondary Branch, Ballygunge Place]]
The school was named after Patha Bhavana,<ref name="pathabhavana">https://www.vishvabharati.in/patha-bhavana</ref> the university school of Vishva Bharati University<ref name="vishvabharati">https://www.vishvabharati.in/</ref>. It was inspired by the education system started by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] as well as the more progressive features of the Indian national movement. It was also influenced by the Bratachari movement of [[Gurusaday Dutt]].

The school was founded by the Patha Bhavan Society under the presidency of [[Literary works of Satyajit Ray|Satyajit Ray]]. [[Susobhan Sarkar]], Tarun Bose, who was a judge of the High Court of Calcutta, and Amiya Bose, an opthalmologist helped Ray set up the school. Ray designed the school's logo. Jyotirindra Moitra, an exponent of Rabindrasangeet, wrote the school's song, ''Amader Patha Bhavan'' (''আমাদের পাঠভবন''). Others who played a pivotal role in the school's establishment included [[Mira Datta Gupta]] and Uma Sehanobis, under whose guidance a group of teachers came forward to found the school. This included Nandita Mitra and Manjushree Dasgupta, the school's first-principal and first-vice principal respectively.

Later, [[Santosh Bhattacharyya]], and [[Barun De]] served as the general secretary of the Governing Body of the school.

==Objectives==
The objectives of the founders of this school, which aims to prepare its students for undergraduate level college education, was two-fold from the beginning: the establishment of a co-educational school in [[Calcutta]] which would offer education in both Bengali and English, and not placing too much stress on examinations, although half-yearly and annual tests were held from the school's inception. The first batch of students from the school took the Madhyamik (মাধ্যমিক) (Secondary) Board Examination in 1972.

==Academic==
The school has montessori, primary, secondary and higher secondary/junior college branches at different locations. The higher secondary branch offers subject combinations in the sciences, arts and commerce.

===Language policy===
The school offers education in the mixed medium. At the start of primary school, a student is streamlined into the Bengali or the English medium. Each standard used to have four sections, of which two were held in Bengali and two in English. Now, there are five sections, of which one is held in Bengali and four in English.

The two other languages taught were Sanskrit and Hindi, which were offered as third languages from the seventh to the ninth standards. But now the only third language is Hindi. Third language is compulsory for all students.

==Cultural activities==
Since one of the main objectives of the school is to encourage education in Bengali both inside and outside the classrooms, it culturally identifies itself with the Santiniketan Patha Bhavana and holds programmes which have been traditionally held in that school, such as the ''Sahitya Sabhas''.

''Sahitya Sabhas'' and other annual events, such as ''Basanta Utsab'' (বসন্ত উৎসব) and Shakespeare Day, are held where students participate in reading, writing and reciting Bengali short stories and poems and stage plays. ''Baishey Sravan'' is celebrated and observed every year. So is the International Mother Tongue Day (মাতৃভাষা দিবস) on 21 February (একুশে ফেব্রুয়ারি). ''Joy Baba Phelunath'' (''The Elephant God'') was premiered in the school.

==Houses==
Students of the school are placed in houses named after four ancient Indian universities. They are:

*Nalanda (নালন্দা) (Green) (সবুজ)
*Takshashila (তক্ষশীলা) (Yellow) (হলুদ)
*Ujjaini (উজ্জয়িনী) (Blue) (নীল)
*Vikramshila (বিক্রমশীলা) (Red) (লাল)

==Sports==
The school has its own cricket and football team. The sports ground is located on Fern Road. The annual sports day is held at the Rabindra Sarovar (রবীন্দ্র সরোবর) stadium in Kolkata.

==Administration==
The different branches of the school are administered separately. The high school is administered by an executive council which has a president and a general secretary. The daily administration of the school is in the hands of the principal.

==Branches==
There are two independent branches of the school. The first one, in Ballygunge, Kolkata and the second one, a new branch opened in 1992, at Dankuni, Hooghly, are both administered by the Patha Bhavan Society.

==Affiliations==
The secondary and higher secondary branches of the school are affiliated to the [[West Bengal Board of Secondary Education]] (পশ্চিমবঙ্গ মধ্য শিক্ষা পর্ষদ) and the [[West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education]] (পশ্চিমবঙ্গ উচ্চ শিক্ষা পর্ষদ).<ref name="schoolconnects">[https://schoolconnects.in/patha-bhavan-ballygunge-place Patha Bhavan, 8/2, Gariahat Road, Kolkata]</ref>

==Reputation==
According to a National school survey in 2008, Patha Bhavan was placed 7th in 'Academic Reputation', 7th in 'Honesty/Integrity', 10th in 'Quality of Alumni' and 4th in 'Value for Money'.<ref name="pathabhavankolkata">[http://educationworldonline.net/articles/Parameters%20of%20excellence%20India's%20top%2010%20day%20schools.pdf 'Cover Story' in 'EW Day School Ranking', 2008]</ref>

==Location==
The four branches of the school are located at four different sites of Ballygunge in Kolkata. The montessori and primary wings, which function under a single administration, are located at premises on Swinhoe Street (সুইনহো স্ট্রিট) and Palm Avenue (পাম এভেনিউ) in Kolkata respectively. The High School and the humanities wing of the Higher Secondary branch are located at 'Delta House' (ডেল্টা হাউস), 103, A & C, Bondel Road
(বন্ডেল রোড) , Kolkata, although the main gate of the school opens on Ballygunge Place (now Amiya Bose Sarani or অমিয় বোস সরণী), while the science wing of the Higher Secondary branch is now located at 8/2, Gariahat Road (গড়িয়াহাট রোড) (formerly Merlin Park or মর্লিন পার্ক), Kolkata.

==Notable alumni==
*[[Paroma Banerjee]], eminent singer.
*[[Kaushiki Chakrabarty]], eminent singer.
*[[Kushal Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Lagnajita Chakraborty]], rising Bengali singer.
*[[Soham Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Parambrata Chatterjee]], film and television actor.
*[[Siddartha Chatterjee]], film artist.
*[[Aparajita Ghosh Das]], television actress.
*[[Anik Dutta]], film director.
*[[Maitreesh Ghatak]], Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, University of London.
*[[Amit Kumar]], playback singer.
*[[Sandip Ray]], film director.
*[[Gargi Roychowdhury]], film and television actress.
*[[Srabani Sen]], eminent singer.

==External links==
*[http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/InstitutionsCentresSchools/Contents/SchoolsContents.htm?f=../Contents/PathaBhavana.htm Santiniketan Patha Bhavana]
*[http://www.pathabhavandankuni.org/ Dankuni Patha Bhavan]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{coord missing|West Bengal}}

[[Category:Co-educational schools in India]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1965]]
[[Category:High schools and secondary schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Private schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Primary schools in West Bengal]]
[[Category:1965 establishments in West Bengal]]

Patha Bhavan, Kolkata

2022-01-31T03:30:39Z

BDe2021: /* Affiliations */

{{Use Indian English|date=May 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}
{{Infobox university
| name = Patha Bhavan
| image = Patha-Bhavan_logo.jpg
| established = 1965
| type = Private school
| founder = [[Satyajit Ray]], Uma Shehanobis
| principal = Subha Gupta
| city = [[Kolkata]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| country = [[India]]
| campus = Palm Avenue, Bondel Road, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Ballygunge, Kolkata
| faculty =
| students =
| website = [http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Primary School] [http://pathabhavan.in/ Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools]
}}
'''Patha Bhavan''' (পাঠভবন) is a mixed medium independent co-educational day school in [[Kolkata]], [[India]], which is affiliated to the state secondary and higher secondary boards.<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140614/jsp/calcutta/story_18510076.jsp#.VbYvuWoVjIU|title='Humidity holiday for schools' in 'The Telegraph', Calcutta, 14 June, 2014|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="pathabhavanhighschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.org/ Official website of the High School]</ref> It was established on 28 June 1965.<ref name="pathabhavanprimaryschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Official website of the Primary School]</ref>

==History==
[[File:Patha Bhavan High School.jpg|right|240px|Secondary Branch, Ballygunge Place]]
The school was named after Patha Bhavana,<ref name="pathabhavana">https://www.vishvabharati.in/patha-bhavana</ref> the university school of Vishva Bharati University<ref name="vishvabharati">https://www.vishvabharati.in/</ref>. It was inspired by the education system started by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] as well as the more progressive features of the Indian national movement. It was also influenced by the Bratachari movement of [[Gurusaday Dutt]].

The school was founded by the Patha Bhavan Society under the presidency of [[Literary works of Satyajit Ray|Satyajit Ray]]. [[Susobhan Sarkar]], Tarun Bose, who was a judge of the High Court of Calcutta, and Amiya Bose, an opthalmologist helped Ray set up the school. Ray designed the school's logo. Jyotirindra Moitra, an exponent of Rabindrasangeet, wrote the school's song, ''Amader Patha Bhavan'' (''আমাদের পাঠভবন''). Others who played a pivotal role in the school's establishment included [[Mira Datta Gupta]] and Uma Sehanobis, under whose guidance a group of teachers came forward to found the school. This included Nandita Mitra and Manjushree Dasgupta, the school's first-principal and first-vice principal respectively.

Later, [[Santosh Bhattacharyya]], and [[Barun De]] served as the general secretary of the Governing Body of the school.

==Objectives==
The objectives of the founders of this school, which aims to prepare its students for undergraduate level college education, was two-fold from the beginning: the establishment of a co-educational school in [[Calcutta]] which would offer education in both Bengali and English, and not placing too much stress on examinations, although half-yearly and annual tests were held from the school's inception. The first batch of students from the school took the Madhyamik (মাধ্যমিক) (Secondary) Board Examination in 1972.

==Academic==
The school has montessori, primary, secondary and higher secondary/junior college branches at different locations. The higher secondary branch offers subject combinations in the sciences, arts and commerce.

===Language policy===
The school offers education in the mixed medium. At the start of primary school, a student is streamlined into the Bengali or the English medium. Each standard used to have four sections, of which two were held in Bengali and two in English. Now, there are five sections, of which one is held in Bengali and four in English.

The two other languages taught were Sanskrit and Hindi, which were offered as third languages from the seventh to the ninth standards. But now the only third language is Hindi. Third language is compulsory for all students.

==Cultural activities==
Since one of the main objectives of the school is to encourage education in Bengali both inside and outside the classrooms, it culturally identifies itself with the Santiniketan Patha Bhavana and holds programmes which have been traditionally held in that school, such as the ''Sahitya Sabhas''.

''Sahitya Sabhas'' and other annual events, such as ''Basanta Utsab'' (বসন্ত উৎসব) and Shakespeare Day, are held where students participate in reading, writing and reciting Bengali short stories and poems and stage plays. ''Baishey Sravan'' is celebrated and observed every year. So is the International Mother Tongue Day (মাতৃভাষা দিবস) on 21 February (একুশে ফেব্রুয়ারি). ''Joy Baba Phelunath'' (''The Elephant God'') was premiered in the school.

==Houses==
Students of the school are placed in houses named after four ancient Indian universities. They are:

*Nalanda (নালন্দা) (Green) (সবুজ)
*Takshashila (তক্ষশীলা) (Yellow) (হলুদ)
*Ujjaini (উজ্জয়িনী) (Blue) (নীল)
*Vikramshila (বিক্রমশীলা) (Red) (লাল)

==Sports==
The school has its own cricket and football team. The sports ground is located on Fern Road. The annual sports day is held at the Rabindra Sarovar (রবীন্দ্র সরোবর) stadium in Kolkata.

==Administration==
The different branches of the school are administered separately. The high school is administered by an executive council which has a president and a general secretary. The daily administration of the school is in the hands of the principal.

==Branches==
There are two independent branches of the school. The first one, in Ballygunge, Kolkata and the second one, a new branch opened in 1992, at Dankuni, Hooghly, are both administered by the Patha Bhavan Society.

==Affiliations==
The secondary and higher secondary branches of the school are affiliated to the [[West Bengal Board of Secondary Education]] (পশ্চিমবঙ্গ মধ্য শিক্ষা পর্ষদ) and the [[West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education]] (পশ্চিমবঙ্গ উচ্চ শিক্ষা পর্ষদ).<ref name="schoolconnects">[https://schoolconnects.in/patha-bhavan-ballygunge-place Patha Bhavan, 8/2, Gariahat Road, Kolkata]</ref>

==Reputation==
According to a National school survey in 2008, Patha Bhavan was placed 7th in 'Academic Reputation', 7th in 'Honesty/Integrity', 10th in 'Quality of Alumni' and 4th in 'Value for Money'.<ref name="pathabhavankolkata">[http://educationworldonline.net/articles/Parameters%20of%20excellence%20India's%20top%2010%20day%20schools.pdf 'Cover Story' in 'EW Day School Ranking', 2008]</ref>

==Location==
The four branches of the school are located at four different sites of Ballygunge in Kolkata. The montessori and primary wings, which function under a single administration, are located at premises on Swinhoe Street (সুইনহো স্ট্রিট) and Palm Avenue (পাম এভেনিউ) in Kolkata respectively. The High School and the humanities wing of the Higher Secondary branch are located at 'Delta House' (ডেল্টা হাউস), 103, A & C, Bondel Road
(বন্ডেল রোড) , Kolkata, although the main gate of the school opens on Ballygunge Place (now Amiya Bose Sarani or অমিয় বোস সরণী), while the science wing of the Higher Secondary branch is now located at 8/2, Gariahat Road (গড়িয়াহাট রোড) (formerly Merlin Park or মর্লিন পার্ক), Kolkata.

==Notable alumni==
*[[Paroma Banerjee]], eminent singer.
*[[Kaushiki Chakrabarty]], eminent singer.
*[[Kushal Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Lagnajita Chakraborty]], rising Bengali singer.
*[[Soham Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Parambrata Chatterjee]], film and television actor.
*[[Siddartha Chatterjee]], film artist.
*[[Aparajita Ghosh Das]], television actress.
*[[Anik Dutta]], film director.
*[[Maitreesh Ghatak]], Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, University of London.
*[[Amit Kumar]], playback singer.
*[[Sandip Ray]], film director.
*[[Gargi Roychowdhury]], film and television actress.
*[[Srabani Sen]], eminent singer.

==External links==
*[http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/InstitutionsCentresSchools/Contents/SchoolsContents.htm?f=../Contents/PathaBhavana.htm Santiniketan Patha Bhavana]
*[http://www.pathabhavandankuni.org/ Dankuni Patha Bhavan]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{coord missing|West Bengal}}

[[Category:Co-educational schools in India]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1965]]
[[Category:High schools and secondary schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Private schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Primary schools in West Bengal]]
[[Category:1965 establishments in West Bengal]]

Patha Bhavan, Kolkata

2022-01-31T03:24:44Z

BDe2021: /* Objectives */

{{Use Indian English|date=May 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}
{{Infobox university
| name = Patha Bhavan
| image = Patha-Bhavan_logo.jpg
| established = 1965
| type = Private school
| founder = [[Satyajit Ray]], Uma Shehanobis
| principal = Subha Gupta
| city = [[Kolkata]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| country = [[India]]
| campus = Palm Avenue, Bondel Road, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Ballygunge, Kolkata
| faculty =
| students =
| website = [http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Primary School] [http://pathabhavan.in/ Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools]
}}
'''Patha Bhavan''' (পাঠভবন) is a mixed medium independent co-educational day school in [[Kolkata]], [[India]], which is affiliated to the state secondary and higher secondary boards.<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140614/jsp/calcutta/story_18510076.jsp#.VbYvuWoVjIU|title='Humidity holiday for schools' in 'The Telegraph', Calcutta, 14 June, 2014|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="pathabhavanhighschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.org/ Official website of the High School]</ref> It was established on 28 June 1965.<ref name="pathabhavanprimaryschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Official website of the Primary School]</ref>

==History==
[[File:Patha Bhavan High School.jpg|right|240px|Secondary Branch, Ballygunge Place]]
The school was named after Patha Bhavana,<ref name="pathabhavana">https://www.vishvabharati.in/patha-bhavana</ref> the university school of Vishva Bharati University<ref name="vishvabharati">https://www.vishvabharati.in/</ref>. It was inspired by the education system started by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] as well as the more progressive features of the Indian national movement. It was also influenced by the Bratachari movement of [[Gurusaday Dutt]].

The school was founded by the Patha Bhavan Society under the presidency of [[Literary works of Satyajit Ray|Satyajit Ray]]. [[Susobhan Sarkar]], Tarun Bose, who was a judge of the High Court of Calcutta, and Amiya Bose, an opthalmologist helped Ray set up the school. Ray designed the school's logo. Jyotirindra Moitra, an exponent of Rabindrasangeet, wrote the school's song, ''Amader Patha Bhavan'' (''আমাদের পাঠভবন''). Others who played a pivotal role in the school's establishment included [[Mira Datta Gupta]] and Uma Sehanobis, under whose guidance a group of teachers came forward to found the school. This included Nandita Mitra and Manjushree Dasgupta, the school's first-principal and first-vice principal respectively.

Later, [[Santosh Bhattacharyya]], and [[Barun De]] served as the general secretary of the Governing Body of the school.

==Objectives==
The objectives of the founders of this school, which aims to prepare its students for undergraduate level college education, was two-fold from the beginning: the establishment of a co-educational school in [[Calcutta]] which would offer education in both Bengali and English, and not placing too much stress on examinations, although half-yearly and annual tests were held from the school's inception. The first batch of students from the school took the Madhyamik (মাধ্যমিক) (Secondary) Board Examination in 1972.

==Academic==
The school has montessori, primary, secondary and higher secondary/junior college branches at different locations. The higher secondary branch offers subject combinations in the sciences, arts and commerce.

===Language policy===
The school offers education in the mixed medium. At the start of primary school, a student is streamlined into the Bengali or the English medium. Each standard used to have four sections, of which two were held in Bengali and two in English. Now, there are five sections, of which one is held in Bengali and four in English.

The two other languages taught were Sanskrit and Hindi, which were offered as third languages from the seventh to the ninth standards. But now the only third language is Hindi. Third language is compulsory for all students.

==Cultural activities==
Since one of the main objectives of the school is to encourage education in Bengali both inside and outside the classrooms, it culturally identifies itself with the Santiniketan Patha Bhavana and holds programmes which have been traditionally held in that school, such as the ''Sahitya Sabhas''.

''Sahitya Sabhas'' and other annual events, such as ''Basanta Utsab'' (বসন্ত উৎসব) and Shakespeare Day, are held where students participate in reading, writing and reciting Bengali short stories and poems and stage plays. ''Baishey Sravan'' is celebrated and observed every year. So is the International Mother Tongue Day (মাতৃভাষা দিবস) on 21 February (একুশে ফেব্রুয়ারি). ''Joy Baba Phelunath'' (''The Elephant God'') was premiered in the school.

==Houses==
Students of the school are placed in houses named after four ancient Indian universities. They are:

*Nalanda (নালন্দা) (Green) (সবুজ)
*Takshashila (তক্ষশীলা) (Yellow) (হলুদ)
*Ujjaini (উজ্জয়িনী) (Blue) (নীল)
*Vikramshila (বিক্রমশীলা) (Red) (লাল)

==Sports==
The school has its own cricket and football team. The sports ground is located on Fern Road. The annual sports day is held at the Rabindra Sarovar (রবীন্দ্র সরোবর) stadium in Kolkata.

==Administration==
The different branches of the school are administered separately. The high school is administered by an executive council which has a president and a general secretary. The daily administration of the school is in the hands of the principal.

==Branches==
There are two independent branches of the school. The first one, in Ballygunge, Kolkata and the second one, a new branch opened in 1992, at Dankuni, Hooghly, are both administered by the Patha Bhavan Society.

==Affiliations==
The secondary and higher secondary branches of the school are affiliated to the [[West Bengal Board of Secondary Education]] and the [[West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education]].<ref name="schoolconnects">[https://schoolconnects.in/patha-bhavan-ballygunge-place Patha Bhavan, 8/2, Gariahat Road, Kolkata]</ref>

==Reputation==
According to a National school survey in 2008, Patha Bhavan was placed 7th in 'Academic Reputation', 7th in 'Honesty/Integrity', 10th in 'Quality of Alumni' and 4th in 'Value for Money'.<ref name="pathabhavankolkata">[http://educationworldonline.net/articles/Parameters%20of%20excellence%20India's%20top%2010%20day%20schools.pdf 'Cover Story' in 'EW Day School Ranking', 2008]</ref>

==Location==
The four branches of the school are located at four different sites of Ballygunge in Kolkata. The montessori and primary wings, which function under a single administration, are located at premises on Swinhoe Street (সুইনহো স্ট্রিট) and Palm Avenue (পাম এভেনিউ) in Kolkata respectively. The High School and the humanities wing of the Higher Secondary branch are located at 'Delta House' (ডেল্টা হাউস), 103, A & C, Bondel Road
(বন্ডেল রোড) , Kolkata, although the main gate of the school opens on Ballygunge Place (now Amiya Bose Sarani or অমিয় বোস সরণী), while the science wing of the Higher Secondary branch is now located at 8/2, Gariahat Road (গড়িয়াহাট রোড) (formerly Merlin Park or মর্লিন পার্ক), Kolkata.

==Notable alumni==
*[[Paroma Banerjee]], eminent singer.
*[[Kaushiki Chakrabarty]], eminent singer.
*[[Kushal Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Lagnajita Chakraborty]], rising Bengali singer.
*[[Soham Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Parambrata Chatterjee]], film and television actor.
*[[Siddartha Chatterjee]], film artist.
*[[Aparajita Ghosh Das]], television actress.
*[[Anik Dutta]], film director.
*[[Maitreesh Ghatak]], Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, University of London.
*[[Amit Kumar]], playback singer.
*[[Sandip Ray]], film director.
*[[Gargi Roychowdhury]], film and television actress.
*[[Srabani Sen]], eminent singer.

==External links==
*[http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/InstitutionsCentresSchools/Contents/SchoolsContents.htm?f=../Contents/PathaBhavana.htm Santiniketan Patha Bhavana]
*[http://www.pathabhavandankuni.org/ Dankuni Patha Bhavan]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{coord missing|West Bengal}}

[[Category:Co-educational schools in India]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1965]]
[[Category:High schools and secondary schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Private schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Primary schools in West Bengal]]
[[Category:1965 establishments in West Bengal]]

Patha Bhavan, Kolkata

2022-01-31T03:22:59Z

BDe2021: /* History */

{{Use Indian English|date=May 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}
{{Infobox university
| name = Patha Bhavan
| image = Patha-Bhavan_logo.jpg
| established = 1965
| type = Private school
| founder = [[Satyajit Ray]], Uma Shehanobis
| principal = Subha Gupta
| city = [[Kolkata]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| country = [[India]]
| campus = Palm Avenue, Bondel Road, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Ballygunge, Kolkata
| faculty =
| students =
| website = [http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Primary School] [http://pathabhavan.in/ Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools]
}}
'''Patha Bhavan''' (পাঠভবন) is a mixed medium independent co-educational day school in [[Kolkata]], [[India]], which is affiliated to the state secondary and higher secondary boards.<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140614/jsp/calcutta/story_18510076.jsp#.VbYvuWoVjIU|title='Humidity holiday for schools' in 'The Telegraph', Calcutta, 14 June, 2014|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="pathabhavanhighschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.org/ Official website of the High School]</ref> It was established on 28 June 1965.<ref name="pathabhavanprimaryschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Official website of the Primary School]</ref>

==History==
[[File:Patha Bhavan High School.jpg|right|240px|Secondary Branch, Ballygunge Place]]
The school was named after Patha Bhavana,<ref name="pathabhavana">https://www.vishvabharati.in/patha-bhavana</ref> the university school of Vishva Bharati University<ref name="vishvabharati">https://www.vishvabharati.in/</ref>. It was inspired by the education system started by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] as well as the more progressive features of the Indian national movement. It was also influenced by the Bratachari movement of [[Gurusaday Dutt]].

The school was founded by the Patha Bhavan Society under the presidency of [[Literary works of Satyajit Ray|Satyajit Ray]]. [[Susobhan Sarkar]], Tarun Bose, who was a judge of the High Court of Calcutta, and Amiya Bose, an opthalmologist helped Ray set up the school. Ray designed the school's logo. Jyotirindra Moitra, an exponent of Rabindrasangeet, wrote the school's song, ''Amader Patha Bhavan'' (''আমাদের পাঠভবন''). Others who played a pivotal role in the school's establishment included [[Mira Datta Gupta]] and Uma Sehanobis, under whose guidance a group of teachers came forward to found the school. This included Nandita Mitra and Manjushree Dasgupta, the school's first-principal and first-vice principal respectively.

Later, [[Santosh Bhattacharyya]], and [[Barun De]] served as the general secretary of the Governing Body of the school.

==Objectives==
The objectives of the founders of this school, which aims to prepare its students for undergraduate level college education, was two-fold from the beginning: the establishment of a co-educational school in [[Calcutta]] which would offer education in both Bengali and English, and not placing too much stress on examinations, although half-yearly and annual tests were held from the school's inception. The first batch of students from the school took the Madhyamik (Secondary) Board Examination in 1972.

==Academic==
The school has montessori, primary, secondary and higher secondary/junior college branches at different locations. The higher secondary branch offers subject combinations in the sciences, arts and commerce.

===Language policy===
The school offers education in the mixed medium. At the start of primary school, a student is streamlined into the Bengali or the English medium. Each standard used to have four sections, of which two were held in Bengali and two in English. Now, there are five sections, of which one is held in Bengali and four in English.

The two other languages taught were Sanskrit and Hindi, which were offered as third languages from the seventh to the ninth standards. But now the only third language is Hindi. Third language is compulsory for all students.

==Cultural activities==
Since one of the main objectives of the school is to encourage education in Bengali both inside and outside the classrooms, it culturally identifies itself with the Santiniketan Patha Bhavana and holds programmes which have been traditionally held in that school, such as the ''Sahitya Sabhas''.

''Sahitya Sabhas'' and other annual events, such as ''Basanta Utsab'' (বসন্ত উৎসব) and Shakespeare Day, are held where students participate in reading, writing and reciting Bengali short stories and poems and stage plays. ''Baishey Sravan'' is celebrated and observed every year. So is the International Mother Tongue Day (মাতৃভাষা দিবস) on 21 February (একুশে ফেব্রুয়ারি). ''Joy Baba Phelunath'' (''The Elephant God'') was premiered in the school.

==Houses==
Students of the school are placed in houses named after four ancient Indian universities. They are:

*Nalanda (নালন্দা) (Green) (সবুজ)
*Takshashila (তক্ষশীলা) (Yellow) (হলুদ)
*Ujjaini (উজ্জয়িনী) (Blue) (নীল)
*Vikramshila (বিক্রমশীলা) (Red) (লাল)

==Sports==
The school has its own cricket and football team. The sports ground is located on Fern Road. The annual sports day is held at the Rabindra Sarovar (রবীন্দ্র সরোবর) stadium in Kolkata.

==Administration==
The different branches of the school are administered separately. The high school is administered by an executive council which has a president and a general secretary. The daily administration of the school is in the hands of the principal.

==Branches==
There are two independent branches of the school. The first one, in Ballygunge, Kolkata and the second one, a new branch opened in 1992, at Dankuni, Hooghly, are both administered by the Patha Bhavan Society.

==Affiliations==
The secondary and higher secondary branches of the school are affiliated to the [[West Bengal Board of Secondary Education]] and the [[West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education]].<ref name="schoolconnects">[https://schoolconnects.in/patha-bhavan-ballygunge-place Patha Bhavan, 8/2, Gariahat Road, Kolkata]</ref>

==Reputation==
According to a National school survey in 2008, Patha Bhavan was placed 7th in 'Academic Reputation', 7th in 'Honesty/Integrity', 10th in 'Quality of Alumni' and 4th in 'Value for Money'.<ref name="pathabhavankolkata">[http://educationworldonline.net/articles/Parameters%20of%20excellence%20India's%20top%2010%20day%20schools.pdf 'Cover Story' in 'EW Day School Ranking', 2008]</ref>

==Location==
The four branches of the school are located at four different sites of Ballygunge in Kolkata. The montessori and primary wings, which function under a single administration, are located at premises on Swinhoe Street (সুইনহো স্ট্রিট) and Palm Avenue (পাম এভেনিউ) in Kolkata respectively. The High School and the humanities wing of the Higher Secondary branch are located at 'Delta House' (ডেল্টা হাউস), 103, A & C, Bondel Road
(বন্ডেল রোড) , Kolkata, although the main gate of the school opens on Ballygunge Place (now Amiya Bose Sarani or অমিয় বোস সরণী), while the science wing of the Higher Secondary branch is now located at 8/2, Gariahat Road (গড়িয়াহাট রোড) (formerly Merlin Park or মর্লিন পার্ক), Kolkata.

==Notable alumni==
*[[Paroma Banerjee]], eminent singer.
*[[Kaushiki Chakrabarty]], eminent singer.
*[[Kushal Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Lagnajita Chakraborty]], rising Bengali singer.
*[[Soham Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Parambrata Chatterjee]], film and television actor.
*[[Siddartha Chatterjee]], film artist.
*[[Aparajita Ghosh Das]], television actress.
*[[Anik Dutta]], film director.
*[[Maitreesh Ghatak]], Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, University of London.
*[[Amit Kumar]], playback singer.
*[[Sandip Ray]], film director.
*[[Gargi Roychowdhury]], film and television actress.
*[[Srabani Sen]], eminent singer.

==External links==
*[http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/InstitutionsCentresSchools/Contents/SchoolsContents.htm?f=../Contents/PathaBhavana.htm Santiniketan Patha Bhavana]
*[http://www.pathabhavandankuni.org/ Dankuni Patha Bhavan]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{coord missing|West Bengal}}

[[Category:Co-educational schools in India]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1965]]
[[Category:High schools and secondary schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Private schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Primary schools in West Bengal]]
[[Category:1965 establishments in West Bengal]]

Patha Bhavan, Kolkata

2022-01-31T03:09:27Z

BDe2021: /* History */

{{Use Indian English|date=May 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}
{{Infobox university
| name = Patha Bhavan
| image = Patha-Bhavan_logo.jpg
| established = 1965
| type = Private school
| founder = [[Satyajit Ray]], Uma Shehanobis
| principal = Subha Gupta
| city = [[Kolkata]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| country = [[India]]
| campus = Palm Avenue, Bondel Road, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Ballygunge, Kolkata
| faculty =
| students =
| website = [http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Primary School] [http://pathabhavan.in/ Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools]
}}
'''Patha Bhavan''' (পাঠভবন) is a mixed medium independent co-educational day school in [[Kolkata]], [[India]], which is affiliated to the state secondary and higher secondary boards.<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140614/jsp/calcutta/story_18510076.jsp#.VbYvuWoVjIU|title='Humidity holiday for schools' in 'The Telegraph', Calcutta, 14 June, 2014|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="pathabhavanhighschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.org/ Official website of the High School]</ref> It was established on 28 June 1965.<ref name="pathabhavanprimaryschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Official website of the Primary School]</ref>

==History==
[[File:Patha Bhavan High School.jpg|right|240px|Secondary Branch, Ballygunge Place]]
The school was named after [[Patha Bhavana]], the university school of [[Vishva Bharati University|Vishva Bharati]]. It was inspired by the education system started by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] as well as the more progressive features of the Indian national movement. It was also influenced by the Bratachari movement of [[Gurusaday Dutt]].

The school was founded by the Patha Bhavan Society under the presidency of [[Literary works of Satyajit Ray|Satyajit Ray]]. [[Susobhan Sarkar]], Tarun Bose, who was a judge of the High Court of Calcutta, and Amiya Bose, an opthalmologist helped Ray set up the school. Ray designed the school's logo. Jyotirindra Moitra, an exponent of Rabindrasangeet, wrote the school's song, ''Amader Patha Bhavan'' (''আমাদের পাঠভবন''). Others who played a pivotal role in the school's establishment included [[Mira Datta Gupta]] and Uma Sehanobis, under whose guidance a group of teachers came forward to found the school. This included Nandita Mitra and Manjushree Dasgupta, the school's first-principal and first-vice principal respectively.

Later, [[Santosh Bhattacharyya]], and [[Barun De]] served as the general secretary of the Governing Body of the school.

==Objectives==
The objectives of the founders of this school, which aims to prepare its students for undergraduate level college education, was two-fold from the beginning: the establishment of a co-educational school in [[Calcutta]] which would offer education in both Bengali and English, and not placing too much stress on examinations, although half-yearly and annual tests were held from the school's inception. The first batch of students from the school took the Madhyamik (Secondary) Board Examination in 1972.

==Academic==
The school has montessori, primary, secondary and higher secondary/junior college branches at different locations. The higher secondary branch offers subject combinations in the sciences, arts and commerce.

===Language policy===
The school offers education in the mixed medium. At the start of primary school, a student is streamlined into the Bengali or the English medium. Each standard used to have four sections, of which two were held in Bengali and two in English. Now, there are five sections, of which one is held in Bengali and four in English.

The two other languages taught were Sanskrit and Hindi, which were offered as third languages from the seventh to the ninth standards. But now the only third language is Hindi. Third language is compulsory for all students.

==Cultural activities==
Since one of the main objectives of the school is to encourage education in Bengali both inside and outside the classrooms, it culturally identifies itself with the Santiniketan Patha Bhavana and holds programmes which have been traditionally held in that school, such as the ''Sahitya Sabhas''.

''Sahitya Sabhas'' and other annual events, such as ''Basanta Utsab'' (বসন্ত উৎসব) and Shakespeare Day, are held where students participate in reading, writing and reciting Bengali short stories and poems and stage plays. ''Baishey Sravan'' is celebrated and observed every year. So is the International Mother Tongue Day (মাতৃভাষা দিবস) on 21 February (একুশে ফেব্রুয়ারি). ''Joy Baba Phelunath'' (''The Elephant God'') was premiered in the school.

==Houses==
Students of the school are placed in houses named after four ancient Indian universities. They are:

*Nalanda (নালন্দা) (Green) (সবুজ)
*Takshashila (তক্ষশীলা) (Yellow) (হলুদ)
*Ujjaini (উজ্জয়িনী) (Blue) (নীল)
*Vikramshila (বিক্রমশীলা) (Red) (লাল)

==Sports==
The school has its own cricket and football team. The sports ground is located on Fern Road. The annual sports day is held at the Rabindra Sarovar (রবীন্দ্র সরোবর) stadium in Kolkata.

==Administration==
The different branches of the school are administered separately. The high school is administered by an executive council which has a president and a general secretary. The daily administration of the school is in the hands of the principal.

==Branches==
There are two independent branches of the school. The first one, in Ballygunge, Kolkata and the second one, a new branch opened in 1992, at Dankuni, Hooghly, are both administered by the Patha Bhavan Society.

==Affiliations==
The secondary and higher secondary branches of the school are affiliated to the [[West Bengal Board of Secondary Education]] and the [[West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education]].<ref name="schoolconnects">[https://schoolconnects.in/patha-bhavan-ballygunge-place Patha Bhavan, 8/2, Gariahat Road, Kolkata]</ref>

==Reputation==
According to a National school survey in 2008, Patha Bhavan was placed 7th in 'Academic Reputation', 7th in 'Honesty/Integrity', 10th in 'Quality of Alumni' and 4th in 'Value for Money'.<ref name="pathabhavankolkata">[http://educationworldonline.net/articles/Parameters%20of%20excellence%20India's%20top%2010%20day%20schools.pdf 'Cover Story' in 'EW Day School Ranking', 2008]</ref>

==Location==
The four branches of the school are located at four different sites of Ballygunge in Kolkata. The montessori and primary wings, which function under a single administration, are located at premises on Swinhoe Street (সুইনহো স্ট্রিট) and Palm Avenue (পাম এভেনিউ) in Kolkata respectively. The High School and the humanities wing of the Higher Secondary branch are located at 'Delta House' (ডেল্টা হাউস), 103, A & C, Bondel Road
(বন্ডেল রোড) , Kolkata, although the main gate of the school opens on Ballygunge Place (now Amiya Bose Sarani or অমিয় বোস সরণী), while the science wing of the Higher Secondary branch is now located at 8/2, Gariahat Road (গড়িয়াহাট রোড) (formerly Merlin Park or মর্লিন পার্ক), Kolkata.

==Notable alumni==
*[[Paroma Banerjee]], eminent singer.
*[[Kaushiki Chakrabarty]], eminent singer.
*[[Kushal Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Lagnajita Chakraborty]], rising Bengali singer.
*[[Soham Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Parambrata Chatterjee]], film and television actor.
*[[Siddartha Chatterjee]], film artist.
*[[Aparajita Ghosh Das]], television actress.
*[[Anik Dutta]], film director.
*[[Maitreesh Ghatak]], Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, University of London.
*[[Amit Kumar]], playback singer.
*[[Sandip Ray]], film director.
*[[Gargi Roychowdhury]], film and television actress.
*[[Srabani Sen]], eminent singer.

==External links==
*[http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/InstitutionsCentresSchools/Contents/SchoolsContents.htm?f=../Contents/PathaBhavana.htm Santiniketan Patha Bhavana]
*[http://www.pathabhavandankuni.org/ Dankuni Patha Bhavan]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{coord missing|West Bengal}}

[[Category:Co-educational schools in India]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1965]]
[[Category:High schools and secondary schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Private schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Primary schools in West Bengal]]
[[Category:1965 establishments in West Bengal]]

Patha Bhavan, Kolkata

2022-01-31T02:06:36Z

BDe2021: /* Location */

{{Use Indian English|date=May 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}
{{Infobox university
| name = Patha Bhavan
| image = Patha-Bhavan_logo.jpg
| established = 1965
| type = Private school
| founder = [[Satyajit Ray]], Uma Shehanobis
| principal = Subha Gupta
| city = [[Kolkata]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| country = [[India]]
| campus = Palm Avenue, Bondel Road, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Ballygunge, Kolkata
| faculty =
| students =
| website = [http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Primary School] [http://pathabhavan.in/ Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools]
}}
'''Patha Bhavan''' (পাঠভবন) is a mixed medium independent co-educational day school in [[Kolkata]], [[India]], which is affiliated to the state secondary and higher secondary boards.<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140614/jsp/calcutta/story_18510076.jsp#.VbYvuWoVjIU|title='Humidity holiday for schools' in 'The Telegraph', Calcutta, 14 June, 2014|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="pathabhavanhighschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.org/ Official website of the High School]</ref> It was established on 28 June 1965.<ref name="pathabhavanprimaryschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Official website of the Primary School]</ref>

==History==
[[File:Patha Bhavan High School.jpg|right|240px|Secondary Branch, Ballygunge Place]]
The school was named after [[Patha Bhavana]], the university school of [[Vishva Bharati University|Vishva Bharati]]. It was inspired by the education system started by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] as well as the more progressive features of the Indian national movement. It was also influenced by the Bratachari movement of [[Gurusaday Dutt]].

The school was founded by the Patha Bhavan Society under the presidency of [[Satyajit Ray]]. [[Susobhan Sarkar]], Tarun Bose, who was a judge of the High Court of Calcutta, and Amiya Bose, an opthalmologist helped Ray set up the school. Ray designed the school's logo. Jyotirindra Moitra, an exponent of Rabindrasangeet, wrote the school's song, ''Amader Patha Bhavan'' (''আমাদের পাঠভবন''). Others who played a pivotal role in the school's establishment included [[Mira Datta Gupta]] and Uma Sehanobis, under whose guidance a group of teachers came forward to found the school. This included Nandita Mitra and Manjushree Dasgupta, the school's first-principal and first-vice principal respectively.

Later, [[Santosh Bhattacharyya]], and [[Barun De]] served as the general secretary of the Governing Body of the school.

==Objectives==
The objectives of the founders of this school, which aims to prepare its students for undergraduate level college education, was two-fold from the beginning: the establishment of a co-educational school in [[Calcutta]] which would offer education in both Bengali and English, and not placing too much stress on examinations, although half-yearly and annual tests were held from the school's inception. The first batch of students from the school took the Madhyamik (Secondary) Board Examination in 1972.

==Academic==
The school has montessori, primary, secondary and higher secondary/junior college branches at different locations. The higher secondary branch offers subject combinations in the sciences, arts and commerce.

===Language policy===
The school offers education in the mixed medium. At the start of primary school, a student is streamlined into the Bengali or the English medium. Each standard used to have four sections, of which two were held in Bengali and two in English. Now, there are five sections, of which one is held in Bengali and four in English.

The two other languages taught were Sanskrit and Hindi, which were offered as third languages from the seventh to the ninth standards. But now the only third language is Hindi. Third language is compulsory for all students.

==Cultural activities==
Since one of the main objectives of the school is to encourage education in Bengali both inside and outside the classrooms, it culturally identifies itself with the Santiniketan Patha Bhavana and holds programmes which have been traditionally held in that school, such as the ''Sahitya Sabhas''.

''Sahitya Sabhas'' and other annual events, such as ''Basanta Utsab'' (বসন্ত উৎসব) and Shakespeare Day, are held where students participate in reading, writing and reciting Bengali short stories and poems and stage plays. ''Baishey Sravan'' is celebrated and observed every year. So is the International Mother Tongue Day (মাতৃভাষা দিবস) on 21 February (একুশে ফেব্রুয়ারি). ''Joy Baba Phelunath'' (''The Elephant God'') was premiered in the school.

==Houses==
Students of the school are placed in houses named after four ancient Indian universities. They are:

*Nalanda (নালন্দা) (Green) (সবুজ)
*Takshashila (তক্ষশীলা) (Yellow) (হলুদ)
*Ujjaini (উজ্জয়িনী) (Blue) (নীল)
*Vikramshila (বিক্রমশীলা) (Red) (লাল)

==Sports==
The school has its own cricket and football team. The sports ground is located on Fern Road. The annual sports day is held at the Rabindra Sarovar (রবীন্দ্র সরোবর) stadium in Kolkata.

==Administration==
The different branches of the school are administered separately. The high school is administered by an executive council which has a president and a general secretary. The daily administration of the school is in the hands of the principal.

==Branches==
There are two independent branches of the school. The first one, in Ballygunge, Kolkata and the second one, a new branch opened in 1992, at Dankuni, Hooghly, are both administered by the Patha Bhavan Society.

==Affiliations==
The secondary and higher secondary branches of the school are affiliated to the [[West Bengal Board of Secondary Education]] and the [[West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education]].<ref name="schoolconnects">[https://schoolconnects.in/patha-bhavan-ballygunge-place Patha Bhavan, 8/2, Gariahat Road, Kolkata]</ref>

==Reputation==
According to a National school survey in 2008, Patha Bhavan was placed 7th in 'Academic Reputation', 7th in 'Honesty/Integrity', 10th in 'Quality of Alumni' and 4th in 'Value for Money'.<ref name="pathabhavankolkata">[http://educationworldonline.net/articles/Parameters%20of%20excellence%20India's%20top%2010%20day%20schools.pdf 'Cover Story' in 'EW Day School Ranking', 2008]</ref>

==Location==
The four branches of the school are located at four different sites of Ballygunge in Kolkata. The montessori and primary wings, which function under a single administration, are located at premises on Swinhoe Street (সুইনহো স্ট্রিট) and Palm Avenue (পাম এভেনিউ) in Kolkata respectively. The High School and the humanities wing of the Higher Secondary branch are located at 'Delta House' (ডেল্টা হাউস), 103, A & C, Bondel Road
(বন্ডেল রোড) , Kolkata, although the main gate of the school opens on Ballygunge Place (now Amiya Bose Sarani or অমিয় বোস সরণী), while the science wing of the Higher Secondary branch is now located at 8/2, Gariahat Road (গড়িয়াহাট রোড) (formerly Merlin Park or মর্লিন পার্ক), Kolkata.

==Notable alumni==
*[[Paroma Banerjee]], eminent singer.
*[[Kaushiki Chakrabarty]], eminent singer.
*[[Kushal Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Lagnajita Chakraborty]], rising Bengali singer.
*[[Soham Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Parambrata Chatterjee]], film and television actor.
*[[Siddartha Chatterjee]], film artist.
*[[Aparajita Ghosh Das]], television actress.
*[[Anik Dutta]], film director.
*[[Maitreesh Ghatak]], Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, University of London.
*[[Amit Kumar]], playback singer.
*[[Sandip Ray]], film director.
*[[Gargi Roychowdhury]], film and television actress.
*[[Srabani Sen]], eminent singer.

==External links==
*[http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/InstitutionsCentresSchools/Contents/SchoolsContents.htm?f=../Contents/PathaBhavana.htm Santiniketan Patha Bhavana]
*[http://www.pathabhavandankuni.org/ Dankuni Patha Bhavan]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{coord missing|West Bengal}}

[[Category:Co-educational schools in India]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1965]]
[[Category:High schools and secondary schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Private schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Primary schools in West Bengal]]
[[Category:1965 establishments in West Bengal]]

Patha Bhavan, Kolkata

2022-01-31T01:48:40Z

BDe2021: /* Reputation */

{{Use Indian English|date=May 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}
{{Infobox university
| name = Patha Bhavan
| image = Patha-Bhavan_logo.jpg
| established = 1965
| type = Private school
| founder = [[Satyajit Ray]], Uma Shehanobis
| principal = Subha Gupta
| city = [[Kolkata]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| country = [[India]]
| campus = Palm Avenue, Bondel Road, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Ballygunge, Kolkata
| faculty =
| students =
| website = [http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Primary School] [http://pathabhavan.in/ Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools]
}}
'''Patha Bhavan''' (পাঠভবন) is a mixed medium independent co-educational day school in [[Kolkata]], [[India]], which is affiliated to the state secondary and higher secondary boards.<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140614/jsp/calcutta/story_18510076.jsp#.VbYvuWoVjIU|title='Humidity holiday for schools' in 'The Telegraph', Calcutta, 14 June, 2014|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="pathabhavanhighschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.org/ Official website of the High School]</ref> It was established on 28 June 1965.<ref name="pathabhavanprimaryschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Official website of the Primary School]</ref>

==History==
[[File:Patha Bhavan High School.jpg|right|240px|Secondary Branch, Ballygunge Place]]
The school was named after [[Patha Bhavana]], the university school of [[Vishva Bharati University|Vishva Bharati]]. It was inspired by the education system started by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] as well as the more progressive features of the Indian national movement. It was also influenced by the Bratachari movement of [[Gurusaday Dutt]].

The school was founded by the Patha Bhavan Society under the presidency of [[Satyajit Ray]]. [[Susobhan Sarkar]], Tarun Bose, who was a judge of the High Court of Calcutta, and Amiya Bose, an opthalmologist helped Ray set up the school. Ray designed the school's logo. Jyotirindra Moitra, an exponent of Rabindrasangeet, wrote the school's song, ''Amader Patha Bhavan'' (''আমাদের পাঠভবন''). Others who played a pivotal role in the school's establishment included [[Mira Datta Gupta]] and Uma Sehanobis, under whose guidance a group of teachers came forward to found the school. This included Nandita Mitra and Manjushree Dasgupta, the school's first-principal and first-vice principal respectively.

Later, [[Santosh Bhattacharyya]], and [[Barun De]] served as the general secretary of the Governing Body of the school.

==Objectives==
The objectives of the founders of this school, which aims to prepare its students for undergraduate level college education, was two-fold from the beginning: the establishment of a co-educational school in [[Calcutta]] which would offer education in both Bengali and English, and not placing too much stress on examinations, although half-yearly and annual tests were held from the school's inception. The first batch of students from the school took the Madhyamik (Secondary) Board Examination in 1972.

==Academic==
The school has montessori, primary, secondary and higher secondary/junior college branches at different locations. The higher secondary branch offers subject combinations in the sciences, arts and commerce.

===Language policy===
The school offers education in the mixed medium. At the start of primary school, a student is streamlined into the Bengali or the English medium. Each standard used to have four sections, of which two were held in Bengali and two in English. Now, there are five sections, of which one is held in Bengali and four in English.

The two other languages taught were Sanskrit and Hindi, which were offered as third languages from the seventh to the ninth standards. But now the only third language is Hindi. Third language is compulsory for all students.

==Cultural activities==
Since one of the main objectives of the school is to encourage education in Bengali both inside and outside the classrooms, it culturally identifies itself with the Santiniketan Patha Bhavana and holds programmes which have been traditionally held in that school, such as the ''Sahitya Sabhas''.

''Sahitya Sabhas'' and other annual events, such as ''Basanta Utsab'' (বসন্ত উৎসব) and Shakespeare Day, are held where students participate in reading, writing and reciting Bengali short stories and poems and stage plays. ''Baishey Sravan'' is celebrated and observed every year. So is the International Mother Tongue Day (মাতৃভাষা দিবস) on 21 February (একুশে ফেব্রুয়ারি). ''Joy Baba Phelunath'' (''The Elephant God'') was premiered in the school.

==Houses==
Students of the school are placed in houses named after four ancient Indian universities. They are:

*Nalanda (নালন্দা) (Green) (সবুজ)
*Takshashila (তক্ষশীলা) (Yellow) (হলুদ)
*Ujjaini (উজ্জয়িনী) (Blue) (নীল)
*Vikramshila (বিক্রমশীলা) (Red) (লাল)

==Sports==
The school has its own cricket and football team. The sports ground is located on Fern Road. The annual sports day is held at the Rabindra Sarovar (রবীন্দ্র সরোবর) stadium in Kolkata.

==Administration==
The different branches of the school are administered separately. The high school is administered by an executive council which has a president and a general secretary. The daily administration of the school is in the hands of the principal.

==Branches==
There are two independent branches of the school. The first one, in Ballygunge, Kolkata and the second one, a new branch opened in 1992, at Dankuni, Hooghly, are both administered by the Patha Bhavan Society.

==Affiliations==
The secondary and higher secondary branches of the school are affiliated to the [[West Bengal Board of Secondary Education]] and the [[West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education]].<ref name="schoolconnects">[https://schoolconnects.in/patha-bhavan-ballygunge-place Patha Bhavan, 8/2, Gariahat Road, Kolkata]</ref>

==Reputation==
According to a National school survey in 2008, Patha Bhavan was placed 7th in 'Academic Reputation', 7th in 'Honesty/Integrity', 10th in 'Quality of Alumni' and 4th in 'Value for Money'.<ref name="pathabhavankolkata">[http://educationworldonline.net/articles/Parameters%20of%20excellence%20India's%20top%2010%20day%20schools.pdf 'Cover Story' in 'EW Day School Ranking', 2008]</ref>

==Location==
The four branches of the school are located at four different sites of Ballygunge, Kolkata: the montessori and primary wings, which function under a single administration, are located at premises on Swinhoe Street and Palm Avenue, Kolkata, respectively. The High School and the humanities wing of the Higher Secondary branch are located at 103, A and C, Bondel Road, Kolkata, although the main gate of the school opens on Ballygunge Place (now Amiya Bose Sarani), while the science wing of the Higher Secondary branch is now located at 8/2, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Kolkata.

The Merlin Park house used to be the residence of Smt. Lakshmi Ray, a former principal of the primary branch of the school. This house, an example of late colonial architecture, was given by its owner for the establishment of the school. The building in which the high school is located, another example of late colonial architecture and popularly called 'Delta House', is a colonial two storied building. Work for the construction of a new and more modern building, meant to accommodate all the branches of the school, has started at Merlin Park.

==Notable alumni==
*[[Paroma Banerjee]], eminent singer.
*[[Kaushiki Chakrabarty]], eminent singer.
*[[Kushal Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Lagnajita Chakraborty]], rising Bengali singer.
*[[Soham Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Parambrata Chatterjee]], film and television actor.
*[[Siddartha Chatterjee]], film artist.
*[[Aparajita Ghosh Das]], television actress.
*[[Anik Dutta]], film director.
*[[Maitreesh Ghatak]], Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, University of London.
*[[Amit Kumar]], playback singer.
*[[Sandip Ray]], film director.
*[[Gargi Roychowdhury]], film and television actress.
*[[Srabani Sen]], eminent singer.

==External links==
*[http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/InstitutionsCentresSchools/Contents/SchoolsContents.htm?f=../Contents/PathaBhavana.htm Santiniketan Patha Bhavana]
*[http://www.pathabhavandankuni.org/ Dankuni Patha Bhavan]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{coord missing|West Bengal}}

[[Category:Co-educational schools in India]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1965]]
[[Category:High schools and secondary schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Private schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Primary schools in West Bengal]]
[[Category:1965 establishments in West Bengal]]

Patha Bhavan, Kolkata

2022-01-31T01:47:05Z

BDe2021: /* Affiliations */

{{Use Indian English|date=May 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}
{{Infobox university
| name = Patha Bhavan
| image = Patha-Bhavan_logo.jpg
| established = 1965
| type = Private school
| founder = [[Satyajit Ray]], Uma Shehanobis
| principal = Subha Gupta
| city = [[Kolkata]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| country = [[India]]
| campus = Palm Avenue, Bondel Road, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Ballygunge, Kolkata
| faculty =
| students =
| website = [http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Primary School] [http://pathabhavan.in/ Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools]
}}
'''Patha Bhavan''' (পাঠভবন) is a mixed medium independent co-educational day school in [[Kolkata]], [[India]], which is affiliated to the state secondary and higher secondary boards.<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140614/jsp/calcutta/story_18510076.jsp#.VbYvuWoVjIU|title='Humidity holiday for schools' in 'The Telegraph', Calcutta, 14 June, 2014|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="pathabhavanhighschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.org/ Official website of the High School]</ref> It was established on 28 June 1965.<ref name="pathabhavanprimaryschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Official website of the Primary School]</ref>

==History==
[[File:Patha Bhavan High School.jpg|right|240px|Secondary Branch, Ballygunge Place]]
The school was named after [[Patha Bhavana]], the university school of [[Vishva Bharati University|Vishva Bharati]]. It was inspired by the education system started by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] as well as the more progressive features of the Indian national movement. It was also influenced by the Bratachari movement of [[Gurusaday Dutt]].

The school was founded by the Patha Bhavan Society under the presidency of [[Satyajit Ray]]. [[Susobhan Sarkar]], Tarun Bose, who was a judge of the High Court of Calcutta, and Amiya Bose, an opthalmologist helped Ray set up the school. Ray designed the school's logo. Jyotirindra Moitra, an exponent of Rabindrasangeet, wrote the school's song, ''Amader Patha Bhavan'' (''আমাদের পাঠভবন''). Others who played a pivotal role in the school's establishment included [[Mira Datta Gupta]] and Uma Sehanobis, under whose guidance a group of teachers came forward to found the school. This included Nandita Mitra and Manjushree Dasgupta, the school's first-principal and first-vice principal respectively.

Later, [[Santosh Bhattacharyya]], and [[Barun De]] served as the general secretary of the Governing Body of the school.

==Objectives==
The objectives of the founders of this school, which aims to prepare its students for undergraduate level college education, was two-fold from the beginning: the establishment of a co-educational school in [[Calcutta]] which would offer education in both Bengali and English, and not placing too much stress on examinations, although half-yearly and annual tests were held from the school's inception. The first batch of students from the school took the Madhyamik (Secondary) Board Examination in 1972.

==Academic==
The school has montessori, primary, secondary and higher secondary/junior college branches at different locations. The higher secondary branch offers subject combinations in the sciences, arts and commerce.

===Language policy===
The school offers education in the mixed medium. At the start of primary school, a student is streamlined into the Bengali or the English medium. Each standard used to have four sections, of which two were held in Bengali and two in English. Now, there are five sections, of which one is held in Bengali and four in English.

The two other languages taught were Sanskrit and Hindi, which were offered as third languages from the seventh to the ninth standards. But now the only third language is Hindi. Third language is compulsory for all students.

==Cultural activities==
Since one of the main objectives of the school is to encourage education in Bengali both inside and outside the classrooms, it culturally identifies itself with the Santiniketan Patha Bhavana and holds programmes which have been traditionally held in that school, such as the ''Sahitya Sabhas''.

''Sahitya Sabhas'' and other annual events, such as ''Basanta Utsab'' (বসন্ত উৎসব) and Shakespeare Day, are held where students participate in reading, writing and reciting Bengali short stories and poems and stage plays. ''Baishey Sravan'' is celebrated and observed every year. So is the International Mother Tongue Day (মাতৃভাষা দিবস) on 21 February (একুশে ফেব্রুয়ারি). ''Joy Baba Phelunath'' (''The Elephant God'') was premiered in the school.

==Houses==
Students of the school are placed in houses named after four ancient Indian universities. They are:

*Nalanda (নালন্দা) (Green) (সবুজ)
*Takshashila (তক্ষশীলা) (Yellow) (হলুদ)
*Ujjaini (উজ্জয়িনী) (Blue) (নীল)
*Vikramshila (বিক্রমশীলা) (Red) (লাল)

==Sports==
The school has its own cricket and football team. The sports ground is located on Fern Road. The annual sports day is held at the Rabindra Sarovar (রবীন্দ্র সরোবর) stadium in Kolkata.

==Administration==
The different branches of the school are administered separately. The high school is administered by an executive council which has a president and a general secretary. The daily administration of the school is in the hands of the principal.

==Branches==
There are two independent branches of the school. The first one, in Ballygunge, Kolkata and the second one, a new branch opened in 1992, at Dankuni, Hooghly, are both administered by the Patha Bhavan Society.

==Affiliations==
The secondary and higher secondary branches of the school are affiliated to the [[West Bengal Board of Secondary Education]] and the [[West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education]].<ref name="schoolconnects">[https://schoolconnects.in/patha-bhavan-ballygunge-place Patha Bhavan, 8/2, Gariahat Road, Kolkata]</ref>

==Reputation==
According to a National school survey in 2008,<ref name="pathabhavankolkata">[http://educationworldonline.net/articles/Parameters%20of%20excellence%20India's%20top%2010%20day%20schools.pdf 'Cover Story' in 'EW Day School Ranking', 2008]</ref> Patha Bhavan was placed 7th in 'Academic Reputation', 7th in 'Honesty/Integrity', 10th in 'Quality of Alumni' and 4th in 'Value for Money'.

==Location==
The four branches of the school are located at four different sites of Ballygunge, Kolkata: the montessori and primary wings, which function under a single administration, are located at premises on Swinhoe Street and Palm Avenue, Kolkata, respectively. The High School and the humanities wing of the Higher Secondary branch are located at 103, A and C, Bondel Road, Kolkata, although the main gate of the school opens on Ballygunge Place (now Amiya Bose Sarani), while the science wing of the Higher Secondary branch is now located at 8/2, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Kolkata.

The Merlin Park house used to be the residence of Smt. Lakshmi Ray, a former principal of the primary branch of the school. This house, an example of late colonial architecture, was given by its owner for the establishment of the school. The building in which the high school is located, another example of late colonial architecture and popularly called 'Delta House', is a colonial two storied building. Work for the construction of a new and more modern building, meant to accommodate all the branches of the school, has started at Merlin Park.

==Notable alumni==
*[[Paroma Banerjee]], eminent singer.
*[[Kaushiki Chakrabarty]], eminent singer.
*[[Kushal Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Lagnajita Chakraborty]], rising Bengali singer.
*[[Soham Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Parambrata Chatterjee]], film and television actor.
*[[Siddartha Chatterjee]], film artist.
*[[Aparajita Ghosh Das]], television actress.
*[[Anik Dutta]], film director.
*[[Maitreesh Ghatak]], Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, University of London.
*[[Amit Kumar]], playback singer.
*[[Sandip Ray]], film director.
*[[Gargi Roychowdhury]], film and television actress.
*[[Srabani Sen]], eminent singer.

==External links==
*[http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/InstitutionsCentresSchools/Contents/SchoolsContents.htm?f=../Contents/PathaBhavana.htm Santiniketan Patha Bhavana]
*[http://www.pathabhavandankuni.org/ Dankuni Patha Bhavan]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{coord missing|West Bengal}}

[[Category:Co-educational schools in India]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1965]]
[[Category:High schools and secondary schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Private schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Primary schools in West Bengal]]
[[Category:1965 establishments in West Bengal]]

Patha Bhavan, Kolkata

2022-01-31T01:42:57Z

BDe2021: /* Branches */

{{Use Indian English|date=May 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}
{{Infobox university
| name = Patha Bhavan
| image = Patha-Bhavan_logo.jpg
| established = 1965
| type = Private school
| founder = [[Satyajit Ray]], Uma Shehanobis
| principal = Subha Gupta
| city = [[Kolkata]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| country = [[India]]
| campus = Palm Avenue, Bondel Road, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Ballygunge, Kolkata
| faculty =
| students =
| website = [http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Primary School] [http://pathabhavan.in/ Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools]
}}
'''Patha Bhavan''' (পাঠভবন) is a mixed medium independent co-educational day school in [[Kolkata]], [[India]], which is affiliated to the state secondary and higher secondary boards.<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140614/jsp/calcutta/story_18510076.jsp#.VbYvuWoVjIU|title='Humidity holiday for schools' in 'The Telegraph', Calcutta, 14 June, 2014|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="pathabhavanhighschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.org/ Official website of the High School]</ref> It was established on 28 June 1965.<ref name="pathabhavanprimaryschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Official website of the Primary School]</ref>

==History==
[[File:Patha Bhavan High School.jpg|right|240px|Secondary Branch, Ballygunge Place]]
The school was named after [[Patha Bhavana]], the university school of [[Vishva Bharati University|Vishva Bharati]]. It was inspired by the education system started by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] as well as the more progressive features of the Indian national movement. It was also influenced by the Bratachari movement of [[Gurusaday Dutt]].

The school was founded by the Patha Bhavan Society under the presidency of [[Satyajit Ray]]. [[Susobhan Sarkar]], Tarun Bose, who was a judge of the High Court of Calcutta, and Amiya Bose, an opthalmologist helped Ray set up the school. Ray designed the school's logo. Jyotirindra Moitra, an exponent of Rabindrasangeet, wrote the school's song, ''Amader Patha Bhavan'' (''আমাদের পাঠভবন''). Others who played a pivotal role in the school's establishment included [[Mira Datta Gupta]] and Uma Sehanobis, under whose guidance a group of teachers came forward to found the school. This included Nandita Mitra and Manjushree Dasgupta, the school's first-principal and first-vice principal respectively.

Later, [[Santosh Bhattacharyya]], and [[Barun De]] served as the general secretary of the Governing Body of the school.

==Objectives==
The objectives of the founders of this school, which aims to prepare its students for undergraduate level college education, was two-fold from the beginning: the establishment of a co-educational school in [[Calcutta]] which would offer education in both Bengali and English, and not placing too much stress on examinations, although half-yearly and annual tests were held from the school's inception. The first batch of students from the school took the Madhyamik (Secondary) Board Examination in 1972.

==Academic==
The school has montessori, primary, secondary and higher secondary/junior college branches at different locations. The higher secondary branch offers subject combinations in the sciences, arts and commerce.

===Language policy===
The school offers education in the mixed medium. At the start of primary school, a student is streamlined into the Bengali or the English medium. Each standard used to have four sections, of which two were held in Bengali and two in English. Now, there are five sections, of which one is held in Bengali and four in English.

The two other languages taught were Sanskrit and Hindi, which were offered as third languages from the seventh to the ninth standards. But now the only third language is Hindi. Third language is compulsory for all students.

==Cultural activities==
Since one of the main objectives of the school is to encourage education in Bengali both inside and outside the classrooms, it culturally identifies itself with the Santiniketan Patha Bhavana and holds programmes which have been traditionally held in that school, such as the ''Sahitya Sabhas''.

''Sahitya Sabhas'' and other annual events, such as ''Basanta Utsab'' (বসন্ত উৎসব) and Shakespeare Day, are held where students participate in reading, writing and reciting Bengali short stories and poems and stage plays. ''Baishey Sravan'' is celebrated and observed every year. So is the International Mother Tongue Day (মাতৃভাষা দিবস) on 21 February (একুশে ফেব্রুয়ারি). ''Joy Baba Phelunath'' (''The Elephant God'') was premiered in the school.

==Houses==
Students of the school are placed in houses named after four ancient Indian universities. They are:

*Nalanda (নালন্দা) (Green) (সবুজ)
*Takshashila (তক্ষশীলা) (Yellow) (হলুদ)
*Ujjaini (উজ্জয়িনী) (Blue) (নীল)
*Vikramshila (বিক্রমশীলা) (Red) (লাল)

==Sports==
The school has its own cricket and football team. The sports ground is located on Fern Road. The annual sports day is held at the Rabindra Sarovar (রবীন্দ্র সরোবর) stadium in Kolkata.

==Administration==
The different branches of the school are administered separately. The high school is administered by an executive council which has a president and a general secretary. The daily administration of the school is in the hands of the principal.

==Branches==
There are two independent branches of the school. The first one, in Ballygunge, Kolkata and the second one, a new branch opened in 1992, at Dankuni, Hooghly, are both administered by the Patha Bhavan Society.

==Affiliations==
At the time of the founding of the school, the secondary branch of the school was affiliated to the [[West Bengal Board of Secondary Education]], while the higher secondary branch was affiliated to the [[West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education]]. [https://schoolconnects.in/patha-bhavan-ballygunge-place Patha Bhavan, 8/2, Gariahat Road, Kolkata].

==Reputation==
According to a National school survey in 2008,<ref name="pathabhavankolkata">[http://educationworldonline.net/articles/Parameters%20of%20excellence%20India's%20top%2010%20day%20schools.pdf 'Cover Story' in 'EW Day School Ranking', 2008]</ref> Patha Bhavan was placed 7th in 'Academic Reputation', 7th in 'Honesty/Integrity', 10th in 'Quality of Alumni' and 4th in 'Value for Money'.

==Location==
The four branches of the school are located at four different sites of Ballygunge, Kolkata: the montessori and primary wings, which function under a single administration, are located at premises on Swinhoe Street and Palm Avenue, Kolkata, respectively. The High School and the humanities wing of the Higher Secondary branch are located at 103, A and C, Bondel Road, Kolkata, although the main gate of the school opens on Ballygunge Place (now Amiya Bose Sarani), while the science wing of the Higher Secondary branch is now located at 8/2, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Kolkata.

The Merlin Park house used to be the residence of Smt. Lakshmi Ray, a former principal of the primary branch of the school. This house, an example of late colonial architecture, was given by its owner for the establishment of the school. The building in which the high school is located, another example of late colonial architecture and popularly called 'Delta House', is a colonial two storied building. Work for the construction of a new and more modern building, meant to accommodate all the branches of the school, has started at Merlin Park.

==Notable alumni==
*[[Paroma Banerjee]], eminent singer.
*[[Kaushiki Chakrabarty]], eminent singer.
*[[Kushal Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Lagnajita Chakraborty]], rising Bengali singer.
*[[Soham Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Parambrata Chatterjee]], film and television actor.
*[[Siddartha Chatterjee]], film artist.
*[[Aparajita Ghosh Das]], television actress.
*[[Anik Dutta]], film director.
*[[Maitreesh Ghatak]], Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, University of London.
*[[Amit Kumar]], playback singer.
*[[Sandip Ray]], film director.
*[[Gargi Roychowdhury]], film and television actress.
*[[Srabani Sen]], eminent singer.

==External links==
*[http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/InstitutionsCentresSchools/Contents/SchoolsContents.htm?f=../Contents/PathaBhavana.htm Santiniketan Patha Bhavana]
*[http://www.pathabhavandankuni.org/ Dankuni Patha Bhavan]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{coord missing|West Bengal}}

[[Category:Co-educational schools in India]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1965]]
[[Category:High schools and secondary schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Private schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Primary schools in West Bengal]]
[[Category:1965 establishments in West Bengal]]

Patha Bhavan, Kolkata

2022-01-31T01:41:59Z

BDe2021: /* Administration */

{{Use Indian English|date=May 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}
{{Infobox university
| name = Patha Bhavan
| image = Patha-Bhavan_logo.jpg
| established = 1965
| type = Private school
| founder = [[Satyajit Ray]], Uma Shehanobis
| principal = Subha Gupta
| city = [[Kolkata]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| country = [[India]]
| campus = Palm Avenue, Bondel Road, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Ballygunge, Kolkata
| faculty =
| students =
| website = [http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Primary School] [http://pathabhavan.in/ Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools]
}}
'''Patha Bhavan''' (পাঠভবন) is a mixed medium independent co-educational day school in [[Kolkata]], [[India]], which is affiliated to the state secondary and higher secondary boards.<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140614/jsp/calcutta/story_18510076.jsp#.VbYvuWoVjIU|title='Humidity holiday for schools' in 'The Telegraph', Calcutta, 14 June, 2014|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="pathabhavanhighschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.org/ Official website of the High School]</ref> It was established on 28 June 1965.<ref name="pathabhavanprimaryschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Official website of the Primary School]</ref>

==History==
[[File:Patha Bhavan High School.jpg|right|240px|Secondary Branch, Ballygunge Place]]
The school was named after [[Patha Bhavana]], the university school of [[Vishva Bharati University|Vishva Bharati]]. It was inspired by the education system started by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] as well as the more progressive features of the Indian national movement. It was also influenced by the Bratachari movement of [[Gurusaday Dutt]].

The school was founded by the Patha Bhavan Society under the presidency of [[Satyajit Ray]]. [[Susobhan Sarkar]], Tarun Bose, who was a judge of the High Court of Calcutta, and Amiya Bose, an opthalmologist helped Ray set up the school. Ray designed the school's logo. Jyotirindra Moitra, an exponent of Rabindrasangeet, wrote the school's song, ''Amader Patha Bhavan'' (''আমাদের পাঠভবন''). Others who played a pivotal role in the school's establishment included [[Mira Datta Gupta]] and Uma Sehanobis, under whose guidance a group of teachers came forward to found the school. This included Nandita Mitra and Manjushree Dasgupta, the school's first-principal and first-vice principal respectively.

Later, [[Santosh Bhattacharyya]], and [[Barun De]] served as the general secretary of the Governing Body of the school.

==Objectives==
The objectives of the founders of this school, which aims to prepare its students for undergraduate level college education, was two-fold from the beginning: the establishment of a co-educational school in [[Calcutta]] which would offer education in both Bengali and English, and not placing too much stress on examinations, although half-yearly and annual tests were held from the school's inception. The first batch of students from the school took the Madhyamik (Secondary) Board Examination in 1972.

==Academic==
The school has montessori, primary, secondary and higher secondary/junior college branches at different locations. The higher secondary branch offers subject combinations in the sciences, arts and commerce.

===Language policy===
The school offers education in the mixed medium. At the start of primary school, a student is streamlined into the Bengali or the English medium. Each standard used to have four sections, of which two were held in Bengali and two in English. Now, there are five sections, of which one is held in Bengali and four in English.

The two other languages taught were Sanskrit and Hindi, which were offered as third languages from the seventh to the ninth standards. But now the only third language is Hindi. Third language is compulsory for all students.

==Cultural activities==
Since one of the main objectives of the school is to encourage education in Bengali both inside and outside the classrooms, it culturally identifies itself with the Santiniketan Patha Bhavana and holds programmes which have been traditionally held in that school, such as the ''Sahitya Sabhas''.

''Sahitya Sabhas'' and other annual events, such as ''Basanta Utsab'' (বসন্ত উৎসব) and Shakespeare Day, are held where students participate in reading, writing and reciting Bengali short stories and poems and stage plays. ''Baishey Sravan'' is celebrated and observed every year. So is the International Mother Tongue Day (মাতৃভাষা দিবস) on 21 February (একুশে ফেব্রুয়ারি). ''Joy Baba Phelunath'' (''The Elephant God'') was premiered in the school.

==Houses==
Students of the school are placed in houses named after four ancient Indian universities. They are:

*Nalanda (নালন্দা) (Green) (সবুজ)
*Takshashila (তক্ষশীলা) (Yellow) (হলুদ)
*Ujjaini (উজ্জয়িনী) (Blue) (নীল)
*Vikramshila (বিক্রমশীলা) (Red) (লাল)

==Sports==
The school has its own cricket and football team. The sports ground is located on Fern Road. The annual sports day is held at the Rabindra Sarovar (রবীন্দ্র সরোবর) stadium in Kolkata.

==Administration==
The different branches of the school are administered separately. The high school is administered by an executive council which has a president and a general secretary. The daily administration of the school is in the hands of the principal.

==Branches==
There are two independent branches of the school. The first one, in Ballygunge, Kolkata and the second one, a new branch opened in 1992, at Dankuni, Hooghly, are both administered by Patha Bhavan Society.

==Affiliations==
At the time of the founding of the school, the secondary branch of the school was affiliated to the [[West Bengal Board of Secondary Education]], while the higher secondary branch was affiliated to the [[West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education]]. [https://schoolconnects.in/patha-bhavan-ballygunge-place Patha Bhavan, 8/2, Gariahat Road, Kolkata].

==Reputation==
According to a National school survey in 2008,<ref name="pathabhavankolkata">[http://educationworldonline.net/articles/Parameters%20of%20excellence%20India's%20top%2010%20day%20schools.pdf 'Cover Story' in 'EW Day School Ranking', 2008]</ref> Patha Bhavan was placed 7th in 'Academic Reputation', 7th in 'Honesty/Integrity', 10th in 'Quality of Alumni' and 4th in 'Value for Money'.

==Location==
The four branches of the school are located at four different sites of Ballygunge, Kolkata: the montessori and primary wings, which function under a single administration, are located at premises on Swinhoe Street and Palm Avenue, Kolkata, respectively. The High School and the humanities wing of the Higher Secondary branch are located at 103, A and C, Bondel Road, Kolkata, although the main gate of the school opens on Ballygunge Place (now Amiya Bose Sarani), while the science wing of the Higher Secondary branch is now located at 8/2, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Kolkata.

The Merlin Park house used to be the residence of Smt. Lakshmi Ray, a former principal of the primary branch of the school. This house, an example of late colonial architecture, was given by its owner for the establishment of the school. The building in which the high school is located, another example of late colonial architecture and popularly called 'Delta House', is a colonial two storied building. Work for the construction of a new and more modern building, meant to accommodate all the branches of the school, has started at Merlin Park.

==Notable alumni==
*[[Paroma Banerjee]], eminent singer.
*[[Kaushiki Chakrabarty]], eminent singer.
*[[Kushal Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Lagnajita Chakraborty]], rising Bengali singer.
*[[Soham Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Parambrata Chatterjee]], film and television actor.
*[[Siddartha Chatterjee]], film artist.
*[[Aparajita Ghosh Das]], television actress.
*[[Anik Dutta]], film director.
*[[Maitreesh Ghatak]], Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, University of London.
*[[Amit Kumar]], playback singer.
*[[Sandip Ray]], film director.
*[[Gargi Roychowdhury]], film and television actress.
*[[Srabani Sen]], eminent singer.

==External links==
*[http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/InstitutionsCentresSchools/Contents/SchoolsContents.htm?f=../Contents/PathaBhavana.htm Santiniketan Patha Bhavana]
*[http://www.pathabhavandankuni.org/ Dankuni Patha Bhavan]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{coord missing|West Bengal}}

[[Category:Co-educational schools in India]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1965]]
[[Category:High schools and secondary schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Private schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Primary schools in West Bengal]]
[[Category:1965 establishments in West Bengal]]

Patha Bhavan, Kolkata

2022-01-31T01:39:45Z

BDe2021: /* Sports */

{{Use Indian English|date=May 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}
{{Infobox university
| name = Patha Bhavan
| image = Patha-Bhavan_logo.jpg
| established = 1965
| type = Private school
| founder = [[Satyajit Ray]], Uma Shehanobis
| principal = Subha Gupta
| city = [[Kolkata]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| country = [[India]]
| campus = Palm Avenue, Bondel Road, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Ballygunge, Kolkata
| faculty =
| students =
| website = [http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Primary School] [http://pathabhavan.in/ Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools]
}}
'''Patha Bhavan''' (পাঠভবন) is a mixed medium independent co-educational day school in [[Kolkata]], [[India]], which is affiliated to the state secondary and higher secondary boards.<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140614/jsp/calcutta/story_18510076.jsp#.VbYvuWoVjIU|title='Humidity holiday for schools' in 'The Telegraph', Calcutta, 14 June, 2014|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="pathabhavanhighschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.org/ Official website of the High School]</ref> It was established on 28 June 1965.<ref name="pathabhavanprimaryschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Official website of the Primary School]</ref>

==History==
[[File:Patha Bhavan High School.jpg|right|240px|Secondary Branch, Ballygunge Place]]
The school was named after [[Patha Bhavana]], the university school of [[Vishva Bharati University|Vishva Bharati]]. It was inspired by the education system started by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] as well as the more progressive features of the Indian national movement. It was also influenced by the Bratachari movement of [[Gurusaday Dutt]].

The school was founded by the Patha Bhavan Society under the presidency of [[Satyajit Ray]]. [[Susobhan Sarkar]], Tarun Bose, who was a judge of the High Court of Calcutta, and Amiya Bose, an opthalmologist helped Ray set up the school. Ray designed the school's logo. Jyotirindra Moitra, an exponent of Rabindrasangeet, wrote the school's song, ''Amader Patha Bhavan'' (''আমাদের পাঠভবন''). Others who played a pivotal role in the school's establishment included [[Mira Datta Gupta]] and Uma Sehanobis, under whose guidance a group of teachers came forward to found the school. This included Nandita Mitra and Manjushree Dasgupta, the school's first-principal and first-vice principal respectively.

Later, [[Santosh Bhattacharyya]], and [[Barun De]] served as the general secretary of the Governing Body of the school.

==Objectives==
The objectives of the founders of this school, which aims to prepare its students for undergraduate level college education, was two-fold from the beginning: the establishment of a co-educational school in [[Calcutta]] which would offer education in both Bengali and English, and not placing too much stress on examinations, although half-yearly and annual tests were held from the school's inception. The first batch of students from the school took the Madhyamik (Secondary) Board Examination in 1972.

==Academic==
The school has montessori, primary, secondary and higher secondary/junior college branches at different locations. The higher secondary branch offers subject combinations in the sciences, arts and commerce.

===Language policy===
The school offers education in the mixed medium. At the start of primary school, a student is streamlined into the Bengali or the English medium. Each standard used to have four sections, of which two were held in Bengali and two in English. Now, there are five sections, of which one is held in Bengali and four in English.

The two other languages taught were Sanskrit and Hindi, which were offered as third languages from the seventh to the ninth standards. But now the only third language is Hindi. Third language is compulsory for all students.

==Cultural activities==
Since one of the main objectives of the school is to encourage education in Bengali both inside and outside the classrooms, it culturally identifies itself with the Santiniketan Patha Bhavana and holds programmes which have been traditionally held in that school, such as the ''Sahitya Sabhas''.

''Sahitya Sabhas'' and other annual events, such as ''Basanta Utsab'' (বসন্ত উৎসব) and Shakespeare Day, are held where students participate in reading, writing and reciting Bengali short stories and poems and stage plays. ''Baishey Sravan'' is celebrated and observed every year. So is the International Mother Tongue Day (মাতৃভাষা দিবস) on 21 February (একুশে ফেব্রুয়ারি). ''Joy Baba Phelunath'' (''The Elephant God'') was premiered in the school.

==Houses==
Students of the school are placed in houses named after four ancient Indian universities. They are:

*Nalanda (নালন্দা) (Green) (সবুজ)
*Takshashila (তক্ষশীলা) (Yellow) (হলুদ)
*Ujjaini (উজ্জয়িনী) (Blue) (নীল)
*Vikramshila (বিক্রমশীলা) (Red) (লাল)

==Sports==
The school has its own cricket and football team. The sports ground is located on Fern Road. The annual sports day is held at the Rabindra Sarovar (রবীন্দ্র সরোবর) stadium in Kolkata.

==Administration==
Administration of the branches of the school is carried out separately. The high school is administered by an executive council which has a president and a general secretary. The daily administration of the school is in the hands of the principal.

==Branches==
There are two independent branches of the school. The first one, in Ballygunge, Kolkata and the second one, a new branch opened in 1992, at Dankuni, Hooghly, are both administered by Patha Bhavan Society.

==Affiliations==
At the time of the founding of the school, the secondary branch of the school was affiliated to the [[West Bengal Board of Secondary Education]], while the higher secondary branch was affiliated to the [[West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education]]. [https://schoolconnects.in/patha-bhavan-ballygunge-place Patha Bhavan, 8/2, Gariahat Road, Kolkata].

==Reputation==
According to a National school survey in 2008,<ref name="pathabhavankolkata">[http://educationworldonline.net/articles/Parameters%20of%20excellence%20India's%20top%2010%20day%20schools.pdf 'Cover Story' in 'EW Day School Ranking', 2008]</ref> Patha Bhavan was placed 7th in 'Academic Reputation', 7th in 'Honesty/Integrity', 10th in 'Quality of Alumni' and 4th in 'Value for Money'.

==Location==
The four branches of the school are located at four different sites of Ballygunge, Kolkata: the montessori and primary wings, which function under a single administration, are located at premises on Swinhoe Street and Palm Avenue, Kolkata, respectively. The High School and the humanities wing of the Higher Secondary branch are located at 103, A and C, Bondel Road, Kolkata, although the main gate of the school opens on Ballygunge Place (now Amiya Bose Sarani), while the science wing of the Higher Secondary branch is now located at 8/2, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Kolkata.

The Merlin Park house used to be the residence of Smt. Lakshmi Ray, a former principal of the primary branch of the school. This house, an example of late colonial architecture, was given by its owner for the establishment of the school. The building in which the high school is located, another example of late colonial architecture and popularly called 'Delta House', is a colonial two storied building. Work for the construction of a new and more modern building, meant to accommodate all the branches of the school, has started at Merlin Park.

==Notable alumni==
*[[Paroma Banerjee]], eminent singer.
*[[Kaushiki Chakrabarty]], eminent singer.
*[[Kushal Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Lagnajita Chakraborty]], rising Bengali singer.
*[[Soham Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Parambrata Chatterjee]], film and television actor.
*[[Siddartha Chatterjee]], film artist.
*[[Aparajita Ghosh Das]], television actress.
*[[Anik Dutta]], film director.
*[[Maitreesh Ghatak]], Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, University of London.
*[[Amit Kumar]], playback singer.
*[[Sandip Ray]], film director.
*[[Gargi Roychowdhury]], film and television actress.
*[[Srabani Sen]], eminent singer.

==External links==
*[http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/InstitutionsCentresSchools/Contents/SchoolsContents.htm?f=../Contents/PathaBhavana.htm Santiniketan Patha Bhavana]
*[http://www.pathabhavandankuni.org/ Dankuni Patha Bhavan]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{coord missing|West Bengal}}

[[Category:Co-educational schools in India]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1965]]
[[Category:High schools and secondary schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Private schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Primary schools in West Bengal]]
[[Category:1965 establishments in West Bengal]]

Patha Bhavan, Kolkata

2022-01-31T01:36:11Z

BDe2021: /* Houses */

{{Use Indian English|date=May 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}
{{Infobox university
| name = Patha Bhavan
| image = Patha-Bhavan_logo.jpg
| established = 1965
| type = Private school
| founder = [[Satyajit Ray]], Uma Shehanobis
| principal = Subha Gupta
| city = [[Kolkata]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| country = [[India]]
| campus = Palm Avenue, Bondel Road, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Ballygunge, Kolkata
| faculty =
| students =
| website = [http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Primary School] [http://pathabhavan.in/ Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools]
}}
'''Patha Bhavan''' (পাঠভবন) is a mixed medium independent co-educational day school in [[Kolkata]], [[India]], which is affiliated to the state secondary and higher secondary boards.<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140614/jsp/calcutta/story_18510076.jsp#.VbYvuWoVjIU|title='Humidity holiday for schools' in 'The Telegraph', Calcutta, 14 June, 2014|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="pathabhavanhighschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.org/ Official website of the High School]</ref> It was established on 28 June 1965.<ref name="pathabhavanprimaryschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Official website of the Primary School]</ref>

==History==
[[File:Patha Bhavan High School.jpg|right|240px|Secondary Branch, Ballygunge Place]]
The school was named after [[Patha Bhavana]], the university school of [[Vishva Bharati University|Vishva Bharati]]. It was inspired by the education system started by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] as well as the more progressive features of the Indian national movement. It was also influenced by the Bratachari movement of [[Gurusaday Dutt]].

The school was founded by the Patha Bhavan Society under the presidency of [[Satyajit Ray]]. [[Susobhan Sarkar]], Tarun Bose, who was a judge of the High Court of Calcutta, and Amiya Bose, an opthalmologist helped Ray set up the school. Ray designed the school's logo. Jyotirindra Moitra, an exponent of Rabindrasangeet, wrote the school's song, ''Amader Patha Bhavan'' (''আমাদের পাঠভবন''). Others who played a pivotal role in the school's establishment included [[Mira Datta Gupta]] and Uma Sehanobis, under whose guidance a group of teachers came forward to found the school. This included Nandita Mitra and Manjushree Dasgupta, the school's first-principal and first-vice principal respectively.

Later, [[Santosh Bhattacharyya]], and [[Barun De]] served as the general secretary of the Governing Body of the school.

==Objectives==
The objectives of the founders of this school, which aims to prepare its students for undergraduate level college education, was two-fold from the beginning: the establishment of a co-educational school in [[Calcutta]] which would offer education in both Bengali and English, and not placing too much stress on examinations, although half-yearly and annual tests were held from the school's inception. The first batch of students from the school took the Madhyamik (Secondary) Board Examination in 1972.

==Academic==
The school has montessori, primary, secondary and higher secondary/junior college branches at different locations. The higher secondary branch offers subject combinations in the sciences, arts and commerce.

===Language policy===
The school offers education in the mixed medium. At the start of primary school, a student is streamlined into the Bengali or the English medium. Each standard used to have four sections, of which two were held in Bengali and two in English. Now, there are five sections, of which one is held in Bengali and four in English.

The two other languages taught were Sanskrit and Hindi, which were offered as third languages from the seventh to the ninth standards. But now the only third language is Hindi. Third language is compulsory for all students.

==Cultural activities==
Since one of the main objectives of the school is to encourage education in Bengali both inside and outside the classrooms, it culturally identifies itself with the Santiniketan Patha Bhavana and holds programmes which have been traditionally held in that school, such as the ''Sahitya Sabhas''.

''Sahitya Sabhas'' and other annual events, such as ''Basanta Utsab'' (বসন্ত উৎসব) and Shakespeare Day, are held where students participate in reading, writing and reciting Bengali short stories and poems and stage plays. ''Baishey Sravan'' is celebrated and observed every year. So is the International Mother Tongue Day (মাতৃভাষা দিবস) on 21 February (একুশে ফেব্রুয়ারি). ''Joy Baba Phelunath'' (''The Elephant God'') was premiered in the school.

==Houses==
Students of the school are placed in houses named after four ancient Indian universities. They are:

*Nalanda (নালন্দা) (Green) (সবুজ)
*Takshashila (তক্ষশীলা) (Yellow) (হলুদ)
*Ujjaini (উজ্জয়িনী) (Blue) (নীল)
*Vikramshila (বিক্রমশীলা) (Red) (লাল)

==Sports==
Students play sports such as cricket, football, table tennis, badminton, etc. The school has its own cricket team and football team representing in various tournaments. Its sports ground is located on Fern Road which is close to all the four buildings of the school. It organises a sports day at the Rabindra Sarovar stadium in Kolkata.

==Administration==
Administration of the branches of the school is carried out separately. The high school is administered by an executive council which has a president and a general secretary. The daily administration of the school is in the hands of the principal.

==Branches==
There are two independent branches of the school. The first one, in Ballygunge, Kolkata and the second one, a new branch opened in 1992, at Dankuni, Hooghly, are both administered by Patha Bhavan Society.

==Affiliations==
At the time of the founding of the school, the secondary branch of the school was affiliated to the [[West Bengal Board of Secondary Education]], while the higher secondary branch was affiliated to the [[West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education]]. [https://schoolconnects.in/patha-bhavan-ballygunge-place Patha Bhavan, 8/2, Gariahat Road, Kolkata].

==Reputation==
According to a National school survey in 2008,<ref name="pathabhavankolkata">[http://educationworldonline.net/articles/Parameters%20of%20excellence%20India's%20top%2010%20day%20schools.pdf 'Cover Story' in 'EW Day School Ranking', 2008]</ref> Patha Bhavan was placed 7th in 'Academic Reputation', 7th in 'Honesty/Integrity', 10th in 'Quality of Alumni' and 4th in 'Value for Money'.

==Location==
The four branches of the school are located at four different sites of Ballygunge, Kolkata: the montessori and primary wings, which function under a single administration, are located at premises on Swinhoe Street and Palm Avenue, Kolkata, respectively. The High School and the humanities wing of the Higher Secondary branch are located at 103, A and C, Bondel Road, Kolkata, although the main gate of the school opens on Ballygunge Place (now Amiya Bose Sarani), while the science wing of the Higher Secondary branch is now located at 8/2, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Kolkata.

The Merlin Park house used to be the residence of Smt. Lakshmi Ray, a former principal of the primary branch of the school. This house, an example of late colonial architecture, was given by its owner for the establishment of the school. The building in which the high school is located, another example of late colonial architecture and popularly called 'Delta House', is a colonial two storied building. Work for the construction of a new and more modern building, meant to accommodate all the branches of the school, has started at Merlin Park.

==Notable alumni==
*[[Paroma Banerjee]], eminent singer.
*[[Kaushiki Chakrabarty]], eminent singer.
*[[Kushal Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Lagnajita Chakraborty]], rising Bengali singer.
*[[Soham Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Parambrata Chatterjee]], film and television actor.
*[[Siddartha Chatterjee]], film artist.
*[[Aparajita Ghosh Das]], television actress.
*[[Anik Dutta]], film director.
*[[Maitreesh Ghatak]], Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, University of London.
*[[Amit Kumar]], playback singer.
*[[Sandip Ray]], film director.
*[[Gargi Roychowdhury]], film and television actress.
*[[Srabani Sen]], eminent singer.

==External links==
*[http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/InstitutionsCentresSchools/Contents/SchoolsContents.htm?f=../Contents/PathaBhavana.htm Santiniketan Patha Bhavana]
*[http://www.pathabhavandankuni.org/ Dankuni Patha Bhavan]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{coord missing|West Bengal}}

[[Category:Co-educational schools in India]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1965]]
[[Category:High schools and secondary schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Private schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Primary schools in West Bengal]]
[[Category:1965 establishments in West Bengal]]

Patha Bhavan, Kolkata

2022-01-31T01:31:17Z

BDe2021: /* Cultural activities */

{{Use Indian English|date=May 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}
{{Infobox university
| name = Patha Bhavan
| image = Patha-Bhavan_logo.jpg
| established = 1965
| type = Private school
| founder = [[Satyajit Ray]], Uma Shehanobis
| principal = Subha Gupta
| city = [[Kolkata]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| country = [[India]]
| campus = Palm Avenue, Bondel Road, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Ballygunge, Kolkata
| faculty =
| students =
| website = [http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Primary School] [http://pathabhavan.in/ Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools]
}}
'''Patha Bhavan''' (পাঠভবন) is a mixed medium independent co-educational day school in [[Kolkata]], [[India]], which is affiliated to the state secondary and higher secondary boards.<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140614/jsp/calcutta/story_18510076.jsp#.VbYvuWoVjIU|title='Humidity holiday for schools' in 'The Telegraph', Calcutta, 14 June, 2014|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="pathabhavanhighschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.org/ Official website of the High School]</ref> It was established on 28 June 1965.<ref name="pathabhavanprimaryschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Official website of the Primary School]</ref>

==History==
[[File:Patha Bhavan High School.jpg|right|240px|Secondary Branch, Ballygunge Place]]
The school was named after [[Patha Bhavana]], the university school of [[Vishva Bharati University|Vishva Bharati]]. It was inspired by the education system started by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] as well as the more progressive features of the Indian national movement. It was also influenced by the Bratachari movement of [[Gurusaday Dutt]].

The school was founded by the Patha Bhavan Society under the presidency of [[Satyajit Ray]]. [[Susobhan Sarkar]], Tarun Bose, who was a judge of the High Court of Calcutta, and Amiya Bose, an opthalmologist helped Ray set up the school. Ray designed the school's logo. Jyotirindra Moitra, an exponent of Rabindrasangeet, wrote the school's song, ''Amader Patha Bhavan'' (''আমাদের পাঠভবন''). Others who played a pivotal role in the school's establishment included [[Mira Datta Gupta]] and Uma Sehanobis, under whose guidance a group of teachers came forward to found the school. This included Nandita Mitra and Manjushree Dasgupta, the school's first-principal and first-vice principal respectively.

Later, [[Santosh Bhattacharyya]], and [[Barun De]] served as the general secretary of the Governing Body of the school.

==Objectives==
The objectives of the founders of this school, which aims to prepare its students for undergraduate level college education, was two-fold from the beginning: the establishment of a co-educational school in [[Calcutta]] which would offer education in both Bengali and English, and not placing too much stress on examinations, although half-yearly and annual tests were held from the school's inception. The first batch of students from the school took the Madhyamik (Secondary) Board Examination in 1972.

==Academic==
The school has montessori, primary, secondary and higher secondary/junior college branches at different locations. The higher secondary branch offers subject combinations in the sciences, arts and commerce.

===Language policy===
The school offers education in the mixed medium. At the start of primary school, a student is streamlined into the Bengali or the English medium. Each standard used to have four sections, of which two were held in Bengali and two in English. Now, there are five sections, of which one is held in Bengali and four in English.

The two other languages taught were Sanskrit and Hindi, which were offered as third languages from the seventh to the ninth standards. But now the only third language is Hindi. Third language is compulsory for all students.

==Cultural activities==
Since one of the main objectives of the school is to encourage education in Bengali both inside and outside the classrooms, it culturally identifies itself with the Santiniketan Patha Bhavana and holds programmes which have been traditionally held in that school, such as the ''Sahitya Sabhas''.

''Sahitya Sabhas'' and other annual events, such as ''Basanta Utsab'' (বসন্ত উৎসব) and Shakespeare Day, are held where students participate in reading, writing and reciting Bengali short stories and poems and stage plays. ''Baishey Sravan'' is celebrated and observed every year. So is the International Mother Tongue Day (মাতৃভাষা দিবস) on 21 February (একুশে ফেব্রুয়ারি). ''Joy Baba Phelunath'' (''The Elephant God'') was premiered in the school.

==Houses==
Students of the school are placed in houses named after four ancient Indian universities. They are:

*[[Nalanda]] (Green)
*[[Takshashila]] (Yellow)
*[[Ujjaini]] (Blue)
*[[Vikramshila]] (Red)

==Sports==
Students play sports such as cricket, football, table tennis, badminton, etc. The school has its own cricket team and football team representing in various tournaments. Its sports ground is located on Fern Road which is close to all the four buildings of the school. It organises a sports day at the Rabindra Sarovar stadium in Kolkata.

==Administration==
Administration of the branches of the school is carried out separately. The high school is administered by an executive council which has a president and a general secretary. The daily administration of the school is in the hands of the principal.

==Branches==
There are two independent branches of the school. The first one, in Ballygunge, Kolkata and the second one, a new branch opened in 1992, at Dankuni, Hooghly, are both administered by Patha Bhavan Society.

==Affiliations==
At the time of the founding of the school, the secondary branch of the school was affiliated to the [[West Bengal Board of Secondary Education]], while the higher secondary branch was affiliated to the [[West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education]]. [https://schoolconnects.in/patha-bhavan-ballygunge-place Patha Bhavan, 8/2, Gariahat Road, Kolkata].

==Reputation==
According to a National school survey in 2008,<ref name="pathabhavankolkata">[http://educationworldonline.net/articles/Parameters%20of%20excellence%20India's%20top%2010%20day%20schools.pdf 'Cover Story' in 'EW Day School Ranking', 2008]</ref> Patha Bhavan was placed 7th in 'Academic Reputation', 7th in 'Honesty/Integrity', 10th in 'Quality of Alumni' and 4th in 'Value for Money'.

==Location==
The four branches of the school are located at four different sites of Ballygunge, Kolkata: the montessori and primary wings, which function under a single administration, are located at premises on Swinhoe Street and Palm Avenue, Kolkata, respectively. The High School and the humanities wing of the Higher Secondary branch are located at 103, A and C, Bondel Road, Kolkata, although the main gate of the school opens on Ballygunge Place (now Amiya Bose Sarani), while the science wing of the Higher Secondary branch is now located at 8/2, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Kolkata.

The Merlin Park house used to be the residence of Smt. Lakshmi Ray, a former principal of the primary branch of the school. This house, an example of late colonial architecture, was given by its owner for the establishment of the school. The building in which the high school is located, another example of late colonial architecture and popularly called 'Delta House', is a colonial two storied building. Work for the construction of a new and more modern building, meant to accommodate all the branches of the school, has started at Merlin Park.

==Notable alumni==
*[[Paroma Banerjee]], eminent singer.
*[[Kaushiki Chakrabarty]], eminent singer.
*[[Kushal Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Lagnajita Chakraborty]], rising Bengali singer.
*[[Soham Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Parambrata Chatterjee]], film and television actor.
*[[Siddartha Chatterjee]], film artist.
*[[Aparajita Ghosh Das]], television actress.
*[[Anik Dutta]], film director.
*[[Maitreesh Ghatak]], Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, University of London.
*[[Amit Kumar]], playback singer.
*[[Sandip Ray]], film director.
*[[Gargi Roychowdhury]], film and television actress.
*[[Srabani Sen]], eminent singer.

==External links==
*[http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/InstitutionsCentresSchools/Contents/SchoolsContents.htm?f=../Contents/PathaBhavana.htm Santiniketan Patha Bhavana]
*[http://www.pathabhavandankuni.org/ Dankuni Patha Bhavan]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{coord missing|West Bengal}}

[[Category:Co-educational schools in India]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1965]]
[[Category:High schools and secondary schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Private schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Primary schools in West Bengal]]
[[Category:1965 establishments in West Bengal]]

Patha Bhavan, Kolkata

2022-01-31T01:13:02Z

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{{Use Indian English|date=May 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}
{{Infobox university
| name = Patha Bhavan
| image = Patha-Bhavan_logo.jpg
| established = 1965
| type = Private school
| founder = [[Satyajit Ray]], Uma Shehanobis
| principal = Subha Gupta
| city = [[Kolkata]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| country = [[India]]
| campus = Palm Avenue, Bondel Road, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Ballygunge, Kolkata
| faculty =
| students =
| website = [http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Primary School] [http://pathabhavan.in/ Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools]
}}
'''Patha Bhavan''' (পাঠভবন) is a mixed medium independent co-educational day school in [[Kolkata]], [[India]], which is affiliated to the state secondary and higher secondary boards.<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140614/jsp/calcutta/story_18510076.jsp#.VbYvuWoVjIU|title='Humidity holiday for schools' in 'The Telegraph', Calcutta, 14 June, 2014|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="pathabhavanhighschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.org/ Official website of the High School]</ref> It was established on 28 June 1965.<ref name="pathabhavanprimaryschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Official website of the Primary School]</ref>

==History==
[[File:Patha Bhavan High School.jpg|right|240px|Secondary Branch, Ballygunge Place]]
The school was named after [[Patha Bhavana]], the university school of [[Vishva Bharati University|Vishva Bharati]]. It was inspired by the education system started by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] as well as the more progressive features of the Indian national movement. It was also influenced by the Bratachari movement of [[Gurusaday Dutt]].

The school was founded by the Patha Bhavan Society under the presidency of [[Satyajit Ray]]. [[Susobhan Sarkar]], Tarun Bose, who was a judge of the High Court of Calcutta, and Amiya Bose, an opthalmologist helped Ray set up the school. Ray designed the school's logo. Jyotirindra Moitra, an exponent of Rabindrasangeet, wrote the school's song, ''Amader Patha Bhavan'' (''আমাদের পাঠভবন''). Others who played a pivotal role in the school's establishment included [[Mira Datta Gupta]] and Uma Sehanobis, under whose guidance a group of teachers came forward to found the school. This included Nandita Mitra and Manjushree Dasgupta, the school's first-principal and first-vice principal respectively.

Later, [[Santosh Bhattacharyya]], and [[Barun De]] served as the general secretary of the Governing Body of the school.

==Objectives==
The objectives of the founders of this school, which aims to prepare its students for undergraduate level college education, was two-fold from the beginning: the establishment of a co-educational school in [[Calcutta]] which would offer education in both Bengali and English, and not placing too much stress on examinations, although half-yearly and annual tests were held from the school's inception. The first batch of students from the school took the Madhyamik (Secondary) Board Examination in 1972.

==Academic==
The school has montessori, primary, secondary and higher secondary/junior college branches at different locations. The higher secondary branch offers subject combinations in the sciences, arts and commerce.

===Language policy===
The school offers education in the mixed medium. At the start of primary school, a student is streamlined into the Bengali or the English medium. Each standard used to have four sections, of which two were held in Bengali and two in English. Now, there are five sections, of which one is held in Bengali and four in English.

The two other languages taught were Sanskrit and Hindi, which were offered as third languages from the seventh to the ninth standards. But now the only third language is Hindi. Third language is compulsory for all students.

==Cultural activities==
Since one of the main objectives of the school is to encourage education in Bengali both inside and outside the classrooms, it culturally identifies itself with the Santiniketan Patha Bhavana and holds programmes which have been traditionally held in that school, such as the ''Sahitya Sabhas''.

The ''Sahitya Sabhas'' are annual meets where the students of the school participate in the writing, reading and recitation of Bengali short stories and poems. ''Baishey Sravan'' is also celebrated and observed every year. Satyajit Ray allowed the holding of the premier of his film ''Joy Baba Phelunath'' (''The Elephant God'') in the school. Proceeds from the viewing of his other films were also donated to the school for its development.
The school also organise an annual function where students of various classes perform, plays in English and Bengali are also performed. The school observes International Mother Tongue Day on 21 February and also events like "Basanto Utsav" and Shakespeare Day.

==Houses==
Students of the school are placed in houses named after four ancient Indian universities. They are:

*[[Nalanda]] (Green)
*[[Takshashila]] (Yellow)
*[[Ujjaini]] (Blue)
*[[Vikramshila]] (Red)

==Sports==
Students play sports such as cricket, football, table tennis, badminton, etc. The school has its own cricket team and football team representing in various tournaments. Its sports ground is located on Fern Road which is close to all the four buildings of the school. It organises a sports day at the Rabindra Sarovar stadium in Kolkata.

==Administration==
Administration of the branches of the school is carried out separately. The high school is administered by an executive council which has a president and a general secretary. The daily administration of the school is in the hands of the principal.

==Branches==
There are two independent branches of the school. The first one, in Ballygunge, Kolkata and the second one, a new branch opened in 1992, at Dankuni, Hooghly, are both administered by Patha Bhavan Society.

==Affiliations==
At the time of the founding of the school, the secondary branch of the school was affiliated to the [[West Bengal Board of Secondary Education]], while the higher secondary branch was affiliated to the [[West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education]]. [https://schoolconnects.in/patha-bhavan-ballygunge-place Patha Bhavan, 8/2, Gariahat Road, Kolkata].

==Reputation==
According to a National school survey in 2008,<ref name="pathabhavankolkata">[http://educationworldonline.net/articles/Parameters%20of%20excellence%20India's%20top%2010%20day%20schools.pdf 'Cover Story' in 'EW Day School Ranking', 2008]</ref> Patha Bhavan was placed 7th in 'Academic Reputation', 7th in 'Honesty/Integrity', 10th in 'Quality of Alumni' and 4th in 'Value for Money'.

==Location==
The four branches of the school are located at four different sites of Ballygunge, Kolkata: the montessori and primary wings, which function under a single administration, are located at premises on Swinhoe Street and Palm Avenue, Kolkata, respectively. The High School and the humanities wing of the Higher Secondary branch are located at 103, A and C, Bondel Road, Kolkata, although the main gate of the school opens on Ballygunge Place (now Amiya Bose Sarani), while the science wing of the Higher Secondary branch is now located at 8/2, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Kolkata.

The Merlin Park house used to be the residence of Smt. Lakshmi Ray, a former principal of the primary branch of the school. This house, an example of late colonial architecture, was given by its owner for the establishment of the school. The building in which the high school is located, another example of late colonial architecture and popularly called 'Delta House', is a colonial two storied building. Work for the construction of a new and more modern building, meant to accommodate all the branches of the school, has started at Merlin Park.

==Notable alumni==
*[[Paroma Banerjee]], eminent singer.
*[[Kaushiki Chakrabarty]], eminent singer.
*[[Kushal Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Lagnajita Chakraborty]], rising Bengali singer.
*[[Soham Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Parambrata Chatterjee]], film and television actor.
*[[Siddartha Chatterjee]], film artist.
*[[Aparajita Ghosh Das]], television actress.
*[[Anik Dutta]], film director.
*[[Maitreesh Ghatak]], Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, University of London.
*[[Amit Kumar]], playback singer.
*[[Sandip Ray]], film director.
*[[Gargi Roychowdhury]], film and television actress.
*[[Srabani Sen]], eminent singer.

==External links==
*[http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/InstitutionsCentresSchools/Contents/SchoolsContents.htm?f=../Contents/PathaBhavana.htm Santiniketan Patha Bhavana]
*[http://www.pathabhavandankuni.org/ Dankuni Patha Bhavan]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{coord missing|West Bengal}}

[[Category:Co-educational schools in India]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1965]]
[[Category:High schools and secondary schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Private schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Primary schools in West Bengal]]
[[Category:1965 establishments in West Bengal]]

Patha Bhavan, Kolkata

2022-01-29T20:38:10Z

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{{Use Indian English|date=May 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}
{{Infobox university
| name = Patha Bhavan
| image = Patha-Bhavan_logo.jpg
| established = 1965
| type = [[Private school]]
| founder = [[Satyajit Ray]], Uma Shehanobis
| principal = Subha Gupta
| city = [[Kolkata]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| country = [[India]]
| campus = ''Palm Avenue, Bondel Road, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Ballygunge, Kolkata''
| faculty =
| students =
| website = [http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Primary School] [http://pathabhavan.in/ Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools]
}}
'''Patha Bhavan''' (পাঠ ভবন) is a mixed medium independent co-educational day school in [[Kolkata]], [[India]], which is affiliated to the state secondary and higher secondary boards.<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140614/jsp/calcutta/story_18510076.jsp#.VbYvuWoVjIU|title='Humidity holiday for schools' in 'The Telegraph', Calcutta, 14 June, 2014|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="pathabhavanhighschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.org/ Official website of the High School]</ref> It was established on 28 June 1965.<ref name="pathabhavanprimaryschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Official website of the Primary School]</ref>

==History==
[[File:Patha Bhavan High School.jpg|right|240px|Secondary Branch, Ballygunge Place]]
The school was named after [[Patha Bhavana]], the university school of [[Vishva Bharati University|Vishva Bharati]]. It was inspired by the education system started by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] as well as the more progressive features of the Indian national movement. It was also influenced by the Bratachari movement of [[Gurusaday Dutt]].

The school was founded by the Patha Bhavan Society under the presidency of [[Satyajit Ray]]. [[Susobhan Sarkar]], Tarun Bose, who was a judge of the High Court of Calcutta, and Amiya Bose, an opthalmologist helped Ray set up the school. Ray designed the school's logo. Jyotirindra Moitra, an exponent of Rabindrasangeet, wrote the school's song, ''Amader Patha Bhavan'' (''আমাদের পাঠভবন''). Others who played a pivotal role in the school's establishment included [[Mira Datta Gupta]] and Uma Sehanobis, under whose guidance a group of teachers came forward to found the school. This included Nandita Mitra and Manjushree Dasgupta, the school's first-principal and first-vice principal respectively.

Later, [[Santosh Bhattacharyya]], and [[Barun De]] served as the general secretary of the Governing Body of the school.

==Objectives==
The objectives of the founders of this school, which aims to prepare its students for undergraduate level college education, was two-fold from the beginning: the establishment of a co-educational school in [[Calcutta]] which would offer education in both Bengali and English, and not placing too much stress on examinations, although half-yearly and annual tests were held from the school's inception. The first batch of students from the school took the Madhyamik (Secondary) Board Examination in 1972.

==Academic==
The school has montessori, primary, secondary and higher secondary/junior college branches at different locations. The higher secondary branch offers subject combinations in the sciences, arts and commerce.

===Language policy===
The school offers education in the mixed medium. At the start of primary school, a student is streamlined into the Bengali or the English medium. Each standard used to have four sections, of which two were held in Bengali and two in English. Now, there are five sections, of which one is held in Bengali and four in English.

The two other languages taught were Sanskrit and Hindi, which were offered as third languages from the seventh to the ninth standards. But now the only third language is Hindi. Third language is compulsory for all students.

==Cultural activities==
Since one of the main objectives of the school is to encourage education in Bengali both inside and outside the classrooms, it culturally identifies itself with the Santiniketan Patha Bhavana and holds programmes which have been traditionally held in that school, such as the ''Sahitya Sabhas''.

The ''Sahitya Sabhas'' are annual meets where the students of the school participate in the writing, reading and recitation of Bengali short stories and poems. ''Baishey Sravan'' is also celebrated and observed every year. Satyajit Ray allowed the holding of the premier of his film ''Joy Baba Phelunath'' (''The Elephant God'') in the school. Proceeds from the viewing of his other films were also donated to the school for its development.
The school also organise an annual function where students of various classes perform, plays in English and Bengali are also performed. The school observes International Mother Tongue Day on 21 February and also events like "Basanto Utsav" and Shakespeare Day.

==Houses==
Students of the school are placed in houses named after four ancient Indian universities. They are:

*[[Nalanda]] (Green)
*[[Takshashila]] (Yellow)
*[[Ujjaini]] (Blue)
*[[Vikramshila]] (Red)

==Sports==
Students play sports such as cricket, football, table tennis, badminton, etc. The school has its own cricket team and football team representing in various tournaments. Its sports ground is located on Fern Road which is close to all the four buildings of the school. It organises a sports day at the Rabindra Sarovar stadium in Kolkata.

==Administration==
Administration of the branches of the school is carried out separately. The high school is administered by an executive council which has a president and a general secretary. The daily administration of the school is in the hands of the principal.

==Branches==
There are two independent branches of the school. The first one, in Ballygunge, Kolkata and the second one, a new branch opened in 1992, at Dankuni, Hooghly, are both administered by Patha Bhavan Society.

==Affiliations==
At the time of the founding of the school, the secondary branch of the school was affiliated to the [[West Bengal Board of Secondary Education]], while the higher secondary branch was affiliated to the [[West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education]]. [https://schoolconnects.in/patha-bhavan-ballygunge-place Patha Bhavan, 8/2, Gariahat Road, Kolkata].

==Reputation==
According to a National school survey in 2008,<ref name="pathabhavankolkata">[http://educationworldonline.net/articles/Parameters%20of%20excellence%20India's%20top%2010%20day%20schools.pdf 'Cover Story' in 'EW Day School Ranking', 2008]</ref> Patha Bhavan was placed 7th in 'Academic Reputation', 7th in 'Honesty/Integrity', 10th in 'Quality of Alumni' and 4th in 'Value for Money'.

==Location==
The four branches of the school are located at four different sites of Ballygunge, Kolkata: the montessori and primary wings, which function under a single administration, are located at premises on Swinhoe Street and Palm Avenue, Kolkata, respectively. The High School and the humanities wing of the Higher Secondary branch are located at 103, A and C, Bondel Road, Kolkata, although the main gate of the school opens on Ballygunge Place (now Amiya Bose Sarani), while the science wing of the Higher Secondary branch is now located at 8/2, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Kolkata.

The Merlin Park house used to be the residence of Smt. Lakshmi Ray, a former principal of the primary branch of the school. This house, an example of late colonial architecture, was given by its owner for the establishment of the school. The building in which the high school is located, another example of late colonial architecture and popularly called 'Delta House', is a colonial two storied building. Work for the construction of a new and more modern building, meant to accommodate all the branches of the school, has started at Merlin Park.

==Notable alumni==
*[[Paroma Banerjee]], eminent singer.
*[[Kaushiki Chakrabarty]], eminent singer.
*[[Kushal Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Lagnajita Chakraborty]], rising Bengali singer.
*[[Soham Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Parambrata Chatterjee]], film and television actor.
*[[Siddartha Chatterjee]], film artist.
*[[Aparajita Ghosh Das]], television actress.
*[[Anik Dutta]], film director.
*[[Maitreesh Ghatak]], Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, University of London.
*[[Amit Kumar]], playback singer.
*[[Sandip Ray]], film director.
*[[Gargi Roychowdhury]], film and television actress.
*[[Srabani Sen]], eminent singer.

==External links==
*[http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/InstitutionsCentresSchools/Contents/SchoolsContents.htm?f=../Contents/PathaBhavana.htm Santiniketan Patha Bhavana]
*[http://www.pathabhavandankuni.org/ Dankuni Patha Bhavan]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{coord missing|West Bengal}}

[[Category:Co-educational schools in India]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1965]]
[[Category:High schools and secondary schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Private schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Primary schools in West Bengal]]
[[Category:1965 establishments in West Bengal]]

Patha Bhavan, Kolkata

2022-01-29T20:35:29Z

BDe2021:

{{Use Indian English|date=May 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}
{{Infobox university
| name = Patha Bhavan
| image = Patha-Bhavan_logo.jpg
| established = 1965
| type = [[Private school]]
| founder = [[Satyajit Ray]], Uma Shehanobis
| principal = Subha Gupta
| city = [[Kolkata]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| country = [[India]]
| campus = ''Palm Avenue, Bondel Road, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Ballygunge, Kolkata''
| faculty =
| students =
| website = [http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Primary School] [http://pathabhavan.in/ Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools]
}}
'''Patha Bhavan''' (পাঠ ভবন) is a mixed medium independent co-educational day school in [[Kolkata]], [[India]], which is affiliated to the state secondary and higher secondary boards.<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140614/jsp/calcutta/story_18510076.jsp#.VbYvuWoVjIU|title='Humidity holiday for schools' in 'The Telegraph', Calcutta, 14 June, 2014|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="pathabhavanhighschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.org/ Official website of the High School]</ref> It was established on 28 June 1965.<ref name="pathabhavanprimaryschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Official website of the Primary School]</ref>

==History==
[[File:Patha Bhavan High School.jpg|right|240px|Secondary Branch, Ballygunge Place]]
The school was named after [[Patha Bhavana]], the university school of [[Vishva Bharati University|Vishva Bharati]]. It was inspired by the education system started by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] as well as the more progressive features of the Indian national movement. It was also influenced by the Bratachari movement of [[Gurusaday Dutt]].

The school was founded by the Patha Bhavan Society under the presidency of [[Satyajit Ray]]. [[Susobhan Sarkar]], Tarun Bose, who was a judge of the High Court of Calcutta, and Amiya Bose, an opthalmologist helped Ray set up the school. Ray designed the school's logo. Jyotirindra Moitra, an exponent of Rabindrasangeet, wrote the school's song, ''Amader Patha Bhavan'' (''আমাদের পাঠভবন''). Others who played a pivotal role in the school's establishment included [[Mira Datta Gupta]] and Uma Sehanobis, under whose guidance a group of teachers came forward to found the school. This included Nandita Mitra and Manjushree Dasgupta, the school's first-principal and first-vice principal respectively.

Later, [[Santosh Bhattacharyya]], and [[Barun De]] served as the general secretary of the Governing Body of the school.

==Objectives==
The objectives of the founders of this school, which aims to prepare its students for undergraduate level college education, was two-fold from the beginning: the establishment of a co-educational school in [[Calcutta]] which would offer education in both Bengali and English, and not placing too much stress on examinations, although half-yearly and annual tests were held from the school's inception. The first batch of students from the school took the Madhyamik (Secondary) Board Examination in 1972.

==Academic==
The school has a montessori, primary, secondary and higher secondary/junior college branches at different locations. The higher secondary branch offers subject combination in science, arts and commerce.

===Language policy===
The school offers education in the mixed medium. At the start of primary school, a student is streamlined into the Bengali or the English medium. Each standard used to have four sections, of which two were held in Bengali and two in English. Now, there are five sections, of which one is held in Bengali and four in English. The two other languages taught were Sanskrit and Hindi, which were offered as third languages from the seventh to the ninth standards. But now the only third language is Hindi. Third language is compulsory for all students.

==Cultural activities==
Since one of the main objectives of the school is to encourage education in Bengali both inside and outside the classrooms, it culturally identifies itself with the Santiniketan Patha Bhavana and holds programmes which have been traditionally held in that school, such as the ''Sahitya Sabhas''.

The ''Sahitya Sabhas'' are annual meets where the students of the school participate in the writing, reading and recitation of Bengali short stories and poems. ''Baishey Sravan'' is also celebrated and observed every year. Satyajit Ray allowed the holding of the premier of his film ''Joy Baba Phelunath'' (''The Elephant God'') in the school. Proceeds from the viewing of his other films were also donated to the school for its development.
The school also organise an annual function where students of various classes perform, plays in English and Bengali are also performed. The school observes International Mother Tongue Day on 21 February and also events like "Basanto Utsav" and Shakespeare Day.

==Houses==
Students of the school are placed in houses named after four ancient Indian universities. They are:

*[[Nalanda]] (Green)
*[[Takshashila]] (Yellow)
*[[Ujjaini]] (Blue)
*[[Vikramshila]] (Red)

==Sports==
Students play sports such as cricket, football, table tennis, badminton, etc. The school has its own cricket team and football team representing in various tournaments. Its sports ground is located on Fern Road which is close to all the four buildings of the school. It organises a sports day at the Rabindra Sarovar stadium in Kolkata.

==Administration==
Administration of the branches of the school is carried out separately. The high school is administered by an executive council which has a president and a general secretary. The daily administration of the school is in the hands of the principal.

==Branches==
There are two independent branches of the school. The first one, in Ballygunge, Kolkata and the second one, a new branch opened in 1992, at Dankuni, Hooghly, are both administered by Patha Bhavan Society.

==Affiliations==
At the time of the founding of the school, the secondary branch of the school was affiliated to the [[West Bengal Board of Secondary Education]], while the higher secondary branch was affiliated to the [[West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education]]. [https://schoolconnects.in/patha-bhavan-ballygunge-place Patha Bhavan, 8/2, Gariahat Road, Kolkata].

==Reputation==
According to a National school survey in 2008,<ref name="pathabhavankolkata">[http://educationworldonline.net/articles/Parameters%20of%20excellence%20India's%20top%2010%20day%20schools.pdf 'Cover Story' in 'EW Day School Ranking', 2008]</ref> Patha Bhavan was placed 7th in 'Academic Reputation', 7th in 'Honesty/Integrity', 10th in 'Quality of Alumni' and 4th in 'Value for Money'.

==Location==
The four branches of the school are located at four different sites of Ballygunge, Kolkata: the montessori and primary wings, which function under a single administration, are located at premises on Swinhoe Street and Palm Avenue, Kolkata, respectively. The High School and the humanities wing of the Higher Secondary branch are located at 103, A and C, Bondel Road, Kolkata, although the main gate of the school opens on Ballygunge Place (now Amiya Bose Sarani), while the science wing of the Higher Secondary branch is now located at 8/2, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Kolkata.

The Merlin Park house used to be the residence of Smt. Lakshmi Ray, a former principal of the primary branch of the school. This house, an example of late colonial architecture, was given by its owner for the establishment of the school. The building in which the high school is located, another example of late colonial architecture and popularly called 'Delta House', is a colonial two storied building. Work for the construction of a new and more modern building, meant to accommodate all the branches of the school, has started at Merlin Park.

==Notable alumni==
*[[Paroma Banerjee]], eminent singer.
*[[Kaushiki Chakrabarty]], eminent singer.
*[[Kushal Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Lagnajita Chakraborty]], rising Bengali singer.
*[[Soham Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Parambrata Chatterjee]], film and television actor.
*[[Siddartha Chatterjee]], film artist.
*[[Aparajita Ghosh Das]], television actress.
*[[Anik Dutta]], film director.
*[[Maitreesh Ghatak]], Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, University of London.
*[[Amit Kumar]], playback singer.
*[[Sandip Ray]], film director.
*[[Gargi Roychowdhury]], film and television actress.
*[[Srabani Sen]], eminent singer.

==External links==
*[http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/InstitutionsCentresSchools/Contents/SchoolsContents.htm?f=../Contents/PathaBhavana.htm Santiniketan Patha Bhavana]
*[http://www.pathabhavandankuni.org/ Dankuni Patha Bhavan]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{coord missing|West Bengal}}

[[Category:Co-educational schools in India]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1965]]
[[Category:High schools and secondary schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Private schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Primary schools in West Bengal]]
[[Category:1965 establishments in West Bengal]]

Patha Bhavan, Kolkata

2022-01-29T20:34:08Z

BDe2021: /* Objectives */

{{Use Indian English|date=May 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}
{{Infobox university
| name = Patha Bhavan
| image = Patha-Bhavan_logo.jpg
| established = 1965
| type = [[Private school]]
| founder = [[Satyajit Ray]], Uma Shehanobis
| principal = Subha Gupta
| city = [[Kolkata]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| country = [[India]]
| campus = ''Palm Avenue, Bondel Road, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Ballygunge, Kolkata''
| faculty =
| students =
| website = [http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Primary School] [http://pathabhavan.in/ Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools]
}}
'''Patha Bhavan''' (পাঠ ভবন) is a mixed medium independent co-educational day school in [[Kolkata]], [[India]], which is affiliated to the state secondary and higher secondary boards.<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140614/jsp/calcutta/story_18510076.jsp#.VbYvuWoVjIU|title='Humidity holiday for schools' in 'The Telegraph', Calcutta, 14 June, 2014|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="pathabhavanhighschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.org/ Official website of the High School]</ref> It was established on 28 June 1965.<ref name="pathabhavanprimaryschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Official website of the Primary School]</ref>

==History==
[[File:Patha Bhavan High School.jpg|right|240px|Secondary Branch, Ballygunge Place]]
The school was named after [[Patha Bhavana]], the university school of [[Vishva Bharati University|Vishva Bharati]]. It was inspired by the education system started by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] as well as the more progressive features of the Indian national movement. It was also influenced by the Bratachari movement of [[Gurusaday Dutt]].

The school was founded by the Patha Bhavan Society under the presidency of [[Satyajit Ray]]. [[Susobhan Sarkar]], Tarun Bose, who was a judge of the High Court of Calcutta, and Amiya Bose, an opthalmologist helped Ray set up the school. Ray designed the school's logo. Jyotirindra Moitra, an exponent of Rabindrasangeet, wrote the school's song, ''Amader Patha Bhavan'' (''আমাদের পাঠভবন''). Others who played a pivotal role in the school's establishment included [[Mira Datta Gupta]] and Uma Sehanobis, under whose guidance a group of teachers came forward to found the school. This included Nandita Mitra and Manjushree Dasgupta, the school's first-principal and first-vice principal respectively.

Later, [[Santosh Bhattacharyya]], and [[Barun De]] served as the general secretary of the Governing Body of the school.

==Objectives==
The objectives of the founders of this school, which aims to prepare its students for undergraduate level college education, was two-fold from the beginning: the establishment of a co-educational school in [[Calcutta]] which would offer education in both Bengali and English, and not placing too much stress on examinations, although half-yearly and annual tests were held from the school's inception. The first batch of students from the school took the Madhyamik (Secondary) Board Examination in 1972.

==Logo==
The logo of the school representing a "flame" is designed by [[Satyajit Ray]], the world-renowned film maker who was also a commercial artist.

==Academic==
The school has a montessori, primary, secondary and higher secondary/junior college branches at different locations. The higher secondary branch offers subject combination in science, arts and commerce.

===Language policy===
The school offers education in the mixed medium. At the start of primary school, a student is streamlined into the Bengali or the English medium. Each standard used to have four sections, of which two were held in Bengali and two in English. Now, there are five sections, of which one is held in Bengali and four in English. The two other languages taught were Sanskrit and Hindi, which were offered as third languages from the seventh to the ninth standards. But now the only third language is Hindi. Third language is compulsory for all students.

==Cultural activities==
Since one of the main objectives of the school is to encourage education in Bengali both inside and outside the classrooms, it culturally identifies itself with the Santiniketan Patha Bhavana and holds programmes which have been traditionally held in that school, such as the ''Sahitya Sabhas''.

The ''Sahitya Sabhas'' are annual meets where the students of the school participate in the writing, reading and recitation of Bengali short stories and poems. ''Baishey Sravan'' is also celebrated and observed every year. Satyajit Ray allowed the holding of the premier of his film ''Joy Baba Phelunath'' (''The Elephant God'') in the school. Proceeds from the viewing of his other films were also donated to the school for its development.
The school also organise an annual function where students of various classes perform, plays in English and Bengali are also performed. The school observes International Mother Tongue Day on 21 February and also events like "Basanto Utsav" and Shakespeare Day.

==Houses==
Students of the school are placed in houses named after four ancient Indian universities. They are:

*[[Nalanda]] (Green)
*[[Takshashila]] (Yellow)
*[[Ujjaini]] (Blue)
*[[Vikramshila]] (Red)

==Sports==
Students play sports such as cricket, football, table tennis, badminton, etc. The school has its own cricket team and football team representing in various tournaments. Its sports ground is located on Fern Road which is close to all the four buildings of the school. It organises a sports day at the Rabindra Sarovar stadium in Kolkata.

==Administration==
Administration of the branches of the school is carried out separately. The high school is administered by an executive council which has a president and a general secretary. The daily administration of the school is in the hands of the principal.

==Branches==
There are two independent branches of the school. The first one, in Ballygunge, Kolkata and the second one, a new branch opened in 1992, at Dankuni, Hooghly, are both administered by Patha Bhavan Society.

==Affiliations==
At the time of the founding of the school, the secondary branch of the school was affiliated to the [[West Bengal Board of Secondary Education]], while the higher secondary branch was affiliated to the [[West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education]]. [https://schoolconnects.in/patha-bhavan-ballygunge-place Patha Bhavan, 8/2, Gariahat Road, Kolkata].

==Reputation==
According to a National school survey in 2008,<ref name="pathabhavankolkata">[http://educationworldonline.net/articles/Parameters%20of%20excellence%20India's%20top%2010%20day%20schools.pdf 'Cover Story' in 'EW Day School Ranking', 2008]</ref> Patha Bhavan was placed 7th in 'Academic Reputation', 7th in 'Honesty/Integrity', 10th in 'Quality of Alumni' and 4th in 'Value for Money'.

==Location==
The four branches of the school are located at four different sites of Ballygunge, Kolkata: the montessori and primary wings, which function under a single administration, are located at premises on Swinhoe Street and Palm Avenue, Kolkata, respectively. The High School and the humanities wing of the Higher Secondary branch are located at 103, A and C, Bondel Road, Kolkata, although the main gate of the school opens on Ballygunge Place (now Amiya Bose Sarani), while the science wing of the Higher Secondary branch is now located at 8/2, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Kolkata.

The Merlin Park house used to be the residence of Smt. Lakshmi Ray, a former principal of the primary branch of the school. This house, an example of late colonial architecture, was given by its owner for the establishment of the school. The building in which the high school is located, another example of late colonial architecture and popularly called 'Delta House', is a colonial two storied building. Work for the construction of a new and more modern building, meant to accommodate all the branches of the school, has started at Merlin Park.

==Notable alumni==
*[[Paroma Banerjee]], eminent singer.
*[[Kaushiki Chakrabarty]], eminent singer.
*[[Kushal Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Lagnajita Chakraborty]], rising Bengali singer.
*[[Soham Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Parambrata Chatterjee]], film and television actor.
*[[Siddartha Chatterjee]], film artist.
*[[Aparajita Ghosh Das]], television actress.
*[[Anik Dutta]], film director.
*[[Maitreesh Ghatak]], Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, University of London.
*[[Amit Kumar]], playback singer.
*[[Sandip Ray]], film director.
*[[Gargi Roychowdhury]], film and television actress.
*[[Srabani Sen]], eminent singer.

==External links==
*[http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/InstitutionsCentresSchools/Contents/SchoolsContents.htm?f=../Contents/PathaBhavana.htm Santiniketan Patha Bhavana]
*[http://www.pathabhavandankuni.org/ Dankuni Patha Bhavan]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{coord missing|West Bengal}}

[[Category:Co-educational schools in India]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1965]]
[[Category:High schools and secondary schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Private schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Primary schools in West Bengal]]
[[Category:1965 establishments in West Bengal]]

Patha Bhavan, Kolkata

2022-01-29T20:26:57Z

BDe2021: /* History */

{{Use Indian English|date=May 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}
{{Infobox university
| name = Patha Bhavan
| image = Patha-Bhavan_logo.jpg
| established = 1965
| type = [[Private school]]
| founder = [[Satyajit Ray]], Uma Shehanobis
| principal = Subha Gupta
| city = [[Kolkata]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| country = [[India]]
| campus = ''Palm Avenue, Bondel Road, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Ballygunge, Kolkata''
| faculty =
| students =
| website = [http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Primary School] [http://pathabhavan.in/ Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools]
}}
'''Patha Bhavan''' (পাঠ ভবন) is a mixed medium independent co-educational day school in [[Kolkata]], [[India]], which is affiliated to the state secondary and higher secondary boards.<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140614/jsp/calcutta/story_18510076.jsp#.VbYvuWoVjIU|title='Humidity holiday for schools' in 'The Telegraph', Calcutta, 14 June, 2014|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="pathabhavanhighschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.org/ Official website of the High School]</ref> It was established on 28 June 1965.<ref name="pathabhavanprimaryschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Official website of the Primary School]</ref>

==History==
[[File:Patha Bhavan High School.jpg|right|240px|Secondary Branch, Ballygunge Place]]
The school was named after [[Patha Bhavana]], the university school of [[Vishva Bharati University|Vishva Bharati]]. It was inspired by the education system started by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] as well as the more progressive features of the Indian national movement. It was also influenced by the Bratachari movement of [[Gurusaday Dutt]].

The school was founded by the Patha Bhavan Society under the presidency of [[Satyajit Ray]]. [[Susobhan Sarkar]], Tarun Bose, who was a judge of the High Court of Calcutta, and Amiya Bose, an opthalmologist helped Ray set up the school. Ray designed the school's logo. Jyotirindra Moitra, an exponent of Rabindrasangeet, wrote the school's song, ''Amader Patha Bhavan'' (''আমাদের পাঠভবন''). Others who played a pivotal role in the school's establishment included [[Mira Datta Gupta]] and Uma Sehanobis, under whose guidance a group of teachers came forward to found the school. This included Nandita Mitra and Manjushree Dasgupta, the school's first-principal and first-vice principal respectively.

Later, [[Santosh Bhattacharyya]], and [[Barun De]] served as the general secretary of the Governing Body of the school.

==Objectives==
The objectives of the founders of this school, which aims to prepare its students for undergraduate level college education, was twofold from the beginning: the founders wanted to establish a co-educational school in [[Calcutta]] which would offer education in both Bengali and English. In the early years of the founding of the school it was the school management's policy not to give excessive importance to examinations, although half-yearly and yearly tests were held from the school's inception. The first batch of students from the school took the [[Madhyamik]] (Secondary) Examination in 1972.

Another aim of the school was to impart an education to its students in an open atmosphere which was favourable to the sensitive mind and was similar to the method of teaching initially followed by Tagore in his school in Santiniketan, although the medium of instruction in the school in Calcutta has always been more formal in nature. While paying heed to the importance of traditional methods of learning, the founders of the school do not allow excessive emphasis to be laid on the rote method. This institution follows the principle of secular education evident in Tagore's ''Brahmacharya Ashram'' in Santiniketan.

==Logo==
The logo of the school representing a "flame" is designed by [[Satyajit Ray]], the world-renowned film maker who was also a commercial artist.

==Academic==
The school has a montessori, primary, secondary and higher secondary/junior college branches at different locations. The higher secondary branch offers subject combination in science, arts and commerce.

===Language policy===
The school offers education in the mixed medium. At the start of primary school, a student is streamlined into the Bengali or the English medium. Each standard used to have four sections, of which two were held in Bengali and two in English. Now, there are five sections, of which one is held in Bengali and four in English. The two other languages taught were Sanskrit and Hindi, which were offered as third languages from the seventh to the ninth standards. But now the only third language is Hindi. Third language is compulsory for all students.

==Cultural activities==
Since one of the main objectives of the school is to encourage education in Bengali both inside and outside the classrooms, it culturally identifies itself with the Santiniketan Patha Bhavana and holds programmes which have been traditionally held in that school, such as the ''Sahitya Sabhas''.

The ''Sahitya Sabhas'' are annual meets where the students of the school participate in the writing, reading and recitation of Bengali short stories and poems. ''Baishey Sravan'' is also celebrated and observed every year. Satyajit Ray allowed the holding of the premier of his film ''Joy Baba Phelunath'' (''The Elephant God'') in the school. Proceeds from the viewing of his other films were also donated to the school for its development.
The school also organise an annual function where students of various classes perform, plays in English and Bengali are also performed. The school observes International Mother Tongue Day on 21 February and also events like "Basanto Utsav" and Shakespeare Day.

==Houses==
Students of the school are placed in houses named after four ancient Indian universities. They are:

*[[Nalanda]] (Green)
*[[Takshashila]] (Yellow)
*[[Ujjaini]] (Blue)
*[[Vikramshila]] (Red)

==Sports==
Students play sports such as cricket, football, table tennis, badminton, etc. The school has its own cricket team and football team representing in various tournaments. Its sports ground is located on Fern Road which is close to all the four buildings of the school. It organises a sports day at the Rabindra Sarovar stadium in Kolkata.

==Administration==
Administration of the branches of the school is carried out separately. The high school is administered by an executive council which has a president and a general secretary. The daily administration of the school is in the hands of the principal.

==Branches==
There are two independent branches of the school. The first one, in Ballygunge, Kolkata and the second one, a new branch opened in 1992, at Dankuni, Hooghly, are both administered by Patha Bhavan Society.

==Affiliations==
At the time of the founding of the school, the secondary branch of the school was affiliated to the [[West Bengal Board of Secondary Education]], while the higher secondary branch was affiliated to the [[West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education]]. [https://schoolconnects.in/patha-bhavan-ballygunge-place Patha Bhavan, 8/2, Gariahat Road, Kolkata].

==Reputation==
According to a National school survey in 2008,<ref name="pathabhavankolkata">[http://educationworldonline.net/articles/Parameters%20of%20excellence%20India's%20top%2010%20day%20schools.pdf 'Cover Story' in 'EW Day School Ranking', 2008]</ref> Patha Bhavan was placed 7th in 'Academic Reputation', 7th in 'Honesty/Integrity', 10th in 'Quality of Alumni' and 4th in 'Value for Money'.

==Location==
The four branches of the school are located at four different sites of Ballygunge, Kolkata: the montessori and primary wings, which function under a single administration, are located at premises on Swinhoe Street and Palm Avenue, Kolkata, respectively. The High School and the humanities wing of the Higher Secondary branch are located at 103, A and C, Bondel Road, Kolkata, although the main gate of the school opens on Ballygunge Place (now Amiya Bose Sarani), while the science wing of the Higher Secondary branch is now located at 8/2, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Kolkata.

The Merlin Park house used to be the residence of Smt. Lakshmi Ray, a former principal of the primary branch of the school. This house, an example of late colonial architecture, was given by its owner for the establishment of the school. The building in which the high school is located, another example of late colonial architecture and popularly called 'Delta House', is a colonial two storied building. Work for the construction of a new and more modern building, meant to accommodate all the branches of the school, has started at Merlin Park.

==Notable alumni==
*[[Paroma Banerjee]], eminent singer.
*[[Kaushiki Chakrabarty]], eminent singer.
*[[Kushal Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Lagnajita Chakraborty]], rising Bengali singer.
*[[Soham Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Parambrata Chatterjee]], film and television actor.
*[[Siddartha Chatterjee]], film artist.
*[[Aparajita Ghosh Das]], television actress.
*[[Anik Dutta]], film director.
*[[Maitreesh Ghatak]], Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, University of London.
*[[Amit Kumar]], playback singer.
*[[Sandip Ray]], film director.
*[[Gargi Roychowdhury]], film and television actress.
*[[Srabani Sen]], eminent singer.

==External links==
*[http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/InstitutionsCentresSchools/Contents/SchoolsContents.htm?f=../Contents/PathaBhavana.htm Santiniketan Patha Bhavana]
*[http://www.pathabhavandankuni.org/ Dankuni Patha Bhavan]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{coord missing|West Bengal}}

[[Category:Co-educational schools in India]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1965]]
[[Category:High schools and secondary schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Private schools in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Primary schools in West Bengal]]
[[Category:1965 establishments in West Bengal]]

Patha Bhavan, Kolkata

2022-01-29T20:03:01Z

BDe2021:

{{Use Indian English|date=May 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}
{{Infobox university
| name = Patha Bhavan
| image = Patha-Bhavan_logo.jpg
| established = 1965
| type = [[Private school]]
| founder = [[Satyajit Ray]], Uma Shehanobis
| principal = Subha Gupta
| city = [[Kolkata]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| country = [[India]]
| campus = ''Palm Avenue, Bondel Road, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Ballygunge, Kolkata''
| faculty =
| students =
| website = [http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Primary School] [http://pathabhavan.in/ Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools]
}}
'''Patha Bhavan''' (পাঠ ভবন) is a mixed medium independent co-educational day school in [[Kolkata]], [[India]], which is affiliated to the state secondary and higher secondary boards.<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140614/jsp/calcutta/story_18510076.jsp#.VbYvuWoVjIU|title='Humidity holiday for schools' in 'The Telegraph', Calcutta, 14 June, 2014|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="pathabhavanhighschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.org/ Official website of the High School]</ref> It was established on 28 June 1965.<ref name="pathabhavanprimaryschool">[http://www.pathabhavan.com/ Official website of the Primary School]</ref>

==History==
[[File:Patha Bhavan High School.jpg|right|240px|Secondary Branch, Ballygunge Place]]
The school was named after the university school of [[Visva-Bharati University]] (called [[Patha Bhavana]]). It was inspired by the education system started by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] as well as the more progressive features of the national movement. It was also influenced by the Bratachari movement of [[Gurusaday Dutt]],<ref name="liveslesforgotten">{{cite web|url=http://rajsaday.com/?p=86|title=Biography of Gurusaday Dutt, Esq.|publisher=}}</ref> The school was founded by the Patha Bhavan Society under the presidency of [[Satyajit Ray]]. [[Susobhan Sarkar]], Tarun Bose, who was a judge of the High Court of Calcutta, and Amiya Bose, an eye specialist helped Ray set up the school. Ray even designed the school's logo. '''Jyotirindra Moitra''', an exponent of Rabindrasangeet, wrote the school's song, ''Amader Patha Bhavan''. Others who played a pivotal role in the school's establishment included [[Mira Datta Gupta]], Uma Sehanobis, under whose guidance a group of teachers came forward to found the school, '''Nandita Mitra''', who was appointed as the school's first-[[principal (education)|principal]] and '''Manjushree Dasgupta''', who became its first-vice principal. In later years, the management of the school was in the hands of the economist, [[Santosh Bhattacharyya]], and [[Barun De]],<ref name="liveslessforgotten">{{cite web|url=http://rajsaday.com/?p=1958|title=Biography of Dr. Barun De|publisher=}}</ref> both of whom were its general secretary.

==Objectives==
The objectives of the founders of this school, which aims to prepare its students for undergraduate level college education, was twofold from the beginning: the founders wanted to establish a co-educational school in [[Calcutta]] which would offer education in both Bengali and English. In the early years of the founding of the school it was the school management's policy not to give excessive importance to examinations, although half-yearly and yearly tests were held from the school's inception. The first batch of students from the school took the [[Madhyamik]] (Secondary) Examination in 1972.

Another aim of the school was to impart an education to its students in an open atmosphere which was favourable to the sensitive mind and was similar to the method of teaching initially followed by Tagore in his school in Santiniketan, although the medium of instruction in the school in Calcutta has always been more formal in nature. While paying heed to the importance of traditional methods of learning, the founders of the school do not allow excessive emphasis to be laid on the rote method. This institution follows the principle of secular education evident in Tagore's ''Brahmacharya Ashram'' in Santiniketan.

==Logo==
The logo of the school representing a "flame" is designed by [[Satyajit Ray]], the world-renowned film maker who was also a commercial artist.

==Academic==
The school has a montessori, primary, secondary and higher secondary/junior college branches at different locations. The higher secondary branch offers subject combination in science, arts and commerce.

===Language policy===
The school offers education in the mixed medium. At the start of primary school, a student is streamlined into the Bengali or the English medium. Each standard used to have four sections, of which two were held in Bengali and two in English. Now, there are five sections, of which one is held in Bengali and four in English. The two other languages taught were Sanskrit and Hindi, which were offered as third languages from the seventh to the ninth standards. But now the only third language is Hindi. Third language is compulsory for all students.

==Cultural activities==
Since one of the main objectives of the school is to encourage education in Bengali both inside and outside the classrooms, it culturally identifies itself with the Santiniketan Patha Bhavana and holds programmes which have been traditionally held in that school, such as the ''Sahitya Sabhas''.

The ''Sahitya Sabhas'' are annual meets where the students of the school participate in the writing, reading and recitation of Bengali short stories and poems. ''Baishey Sravan'' is also celebrated and observed every year. Satyajit Ray allowed the holding of the premier of his film ''Joy Baba Phelunath'' (''The Elephant God'') in the school. Proceeds from the viewing of his other films were also donated to the school for its development.
The school also organise an annual function where students of various classes perform, plays in English and Bengali are also performed. The school observes International Mother Tongue Day on 21 February and also events like "Basanto Utsav" and Shakespeare Day.

==Houses==
Students of the school are placed in houses named after four ancient Indian universities. They are:

*[[Nalanda]] (Green)
*[[Takshashila]] (Yellow)
*[[Ujjaini]] (Blue)
*[[Vikramshila]] (Red)

==Sports==
Students play sports such as cricket, football, table tennis, badminton, etc. The school has its own cricket team and football team representing in various tournaments. Its sports ground is located on Fern Road which is close to all the four buildings of the school. It organises a sports day at the Rabindra Sarovar stadium in Kolkata.

==Administration==
Administration of the branches of the school is carried out separately. The high school is administered by an executive council which has a president and a general secretary. The daily administration of the school is in the hands of the principal.

==Branches==
There are two independent branches of the school. The first one, in Ballygunge, Kolkata and the second one, a new branch opened in 1992, at Dankuni, Hooghly, are both administered by Patha Bhavan Society.

==Affiliations==
At the time of the founding of the school, the secondary branch of the school was affiliated to the [[West Bengal Board of Secondary Education]], while the higher secondary branch was affiliated to the [[West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education]]. [https://schoolconnects.in/patha-bhavan-ballygunge-place Patha Bhavan, 8/2, Gariahat Road, Kolkata].

==Reputation==
According to a National school survey in 2008,<ref name="pathabhavankolkata">[http://educationworldonline.net/articles/Parameters%20of%20excellence%20India's%20top%2010%20day%20schools.pdf 'Cover Story' in 'EW Day School Ranking', 2008]</ref> Patha Bhavan was placed 7th in 'Academic Reputation', 7th in 'Honesty/Integrity', 10th in 'Quality of Alumni' and 4th in 'Value for Money'.

==Location==
The four branches of the school are located at four different sites of Ballygunge, Kolkata: the montessori and primary wings, which function under a single administration, are located at premises on Swinhoe Street and Palm Avenue, Kolkata, respectively. The High School and the humanities wing of the Higher Secondary branch are located at 103, A and C, Bondel Road, Kolkata, although the main gate of the school opens on Ballygunge Place (now Amiya Bose Sarani), while the science wing of the Higher Secondary branch is now located at 8/2, Gariahat Road (formerly Merlin Park), Kolkata.

The Merlin Park house used to be the residence of Smt. Lakshmi Ray, a former principal of the primary branch of the school. This house, an example of late colonial architecture, was given by its owner for the establishment of the school. The building in which the high school is located, another example of late colonial architecture and popularly called 'Delta House', is a colonial two storied building. Work for the construction of a new and more modern building, meant to accommodate all the branches of the school, has started at Merlin Park.

==Notable alumni==
*[[Paroma Banerjee]], eminent singer.
*[[Kaushiki Chakrabarty]], eminent singer.
*[[Kushal Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Lagnajita Chakraborty]], rising Bengali singer.
*[[Soham Chakraborty]], film and television actor.
*[[Parambrata Chatterjee]], film and television actor.
*[[Siddartha Chatterjee]], film artist.
*[[Aparajita Ghosh Das]], television actress.
*[[Anik Dutta]], film director.
*[[Maitreesh Ghatak]], Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, University of London.
*[[Amit Kumar]], playback singer.
*[[Sandip Ray]], film director.
*[[Gargi Roychowdhury]], film and television actress.
*[[Srabani Sen]], eminent singer.

==External links==
*[http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/InstitutionsCentresSchools/Contents/SchoolsContents.htm?f=../Contents/PathaBhavana.htm Santiniketan Patha Bhavana]
*[http://www.pathabhavandankuni.org/ Dankuni Patha Bhavan]

==References==
{{reflist}}

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Brajendranath De

2022-01-29T08:51:46Z

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'''Brajendranath De''' ({{lang-bn|'''ব্রজেন্দ্রনাথ দে'''}}) (23 December, 1852 – 20 September, 1932) ({{lang-bn|১০ পৌষ, ১২৫৯ - ০৪ আশ্বিন, ১৩৩৯}}) was an early Indian member of the Indian Civil Service.<ref name="indiasagawhoswho">[http://indiansaga.com/whoswho/brajendra.html Indiasaga Who's Who]</ref>

==Early life and education==
De, a member of a Kayastha-Brahmo family of Calcutta, was born to Durgadas De (দূর্গাদাস দে), an early student of Hindu College, Calcutta (later renamed Presidency University) and Trailokyamohini Debi (ত্রৈলোক্যমোহিনী দেবী). He studied at [[Hare School]], [[Calcutta]], and then Canning Collegiate School and Canning College, Lucknow,<ref name="Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari'">[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.116007/2015.116007.The-Tabaqat-i-akbari-Of-Khwajah-Nizamuddin-Ahmad-Voliii_djvu.txt Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari']</ref> where he was a pupil of Saiyid Husain Bilgrami.

Later, he travelled to England for his higher studies, joining University College, London to appear in the Open Competitive Services examination. He joined the ICS in 1873,<ref>{{cite book |last=India Office, Great Britain |date=1905 |title=The India List and India Office List 1905 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA447 |publisher=Harrison and Sons |page=447}}</ref> becoming the 8th Indian member of the steel frame.<ref name="womenofindia">Geraldine Forbes, 'Women in Modern India', The New Cambridge History of India, Volume IV.2, (Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 28–29</ref> Subsequently, he was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple on 7 June 1875.<ref>Renu Paul (in consultation with Mitra Sharafi), 'South Asians at the Inns of Court: Middle Temple, 1863-1944', compilation based on H. A. C. Sturgess, (eds.) 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 (1910-44), p. 2.</ref> He was admitted to St. Mary Hall, Oxford, where he spent one year, from 1874-1875, on a Boden Sanskrit Scholarship, attending lectures of Max Mueller and Monier-Williams.<ref name="oxforduniversitycalender">Oxford University Calendar, 1875, p. 366</ref><ref name="bkde'snote"> Note written by his third eldest son, Basanta Kumar De, on the occasion of his mother's 50th death anniversary in 1969.</ref>

His fifth eldest daughter was [[Saroj Nalini Dutt]]<ref name="womenofindia"/> and his third eldest son was [[Basanta Kumar De]], whose son was [[Barun De]].

==Career==
He took up his first posting in the civil service as assistant magistrate and collector of Arrah, Behar in 1875. After serving in a number of districts in Behar, he was posted in Raniganj, Bengal in 1881.<ref>[http://www.mocavo.com/The-New-Annual-Army-List-Militia-List-and-Indian-Civil-Service-List-1881-Volume-1881/393337/783 Military and ICS Manual]</ref> He officiated as the district magistrate and collector of Bankura, Burdwan and Faridpore. He served as the full district magistrate and collector of Khulna, where he was befriended by Dr. Krishnadhan Ghosh, the civil surgeon of the district, and the father of Aurobindo Ghosh.<ref name="sriaurobindo"> Peter Heehs, 'The Lives of Sri Aurobindo', (New York:
Columbia University Press, 2008), p. 33</ref><ref>{{cite journal |date=6 August 1893 |title=Govt. Notifications: Orders by the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3KopAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT298 |journal=The Liberal and the New Dispensation |volume=XII |issue=30 |location=Calcutta |publisher=R.S. Bhattacharji |pages=9}}</ref> He became the magistrate and collector of [[Balasore district|Balasore]] in [[Orissa]] and then of [[Malda district|Malda]] and [[Hooghly district|Hooghly]].<ref name="Bengalee">"Mr. B. De", in ''Bengalee'', 7 September 1910; see also ''Indian Daily'' News, 3 September 1910</ref> He was the first Indian to be elected as chairman of the Hooghly Municipal Corporation. He was an (acting) commissioner of the Burdwan Division.<ref name="socialthoughtofrabindranathtagore">{{cite book |last=Gupta |first=Tapati Dutta |date=1993 |title=Social Thought of Rabindranath Tagore: A Historical Analysis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0HrBJJBFutsC&pg=PA122 |publisher=Abhinav Publications |page=122|isbn=9788170173021}}</ref><ref name="liberty">"Late Mr. B. De.: Passing Away of an Old Civilian" in ''Liberty'', Friday, 30 September 1932</ref>

As the district officer of Hooghly, he started the Duke Club there which was meant to be exclusively for Indians.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Mrinalini |last=Sinha |title=Britishness, Clubbability, and the Colonial Public Sphere: The Genealogy of an Imperial Institution in Colonial India |journal=The Journal of British Studies |volume=4 |issue=44 |date=October 2001 |pages=489–521 |doi=10.1086/386265 |jstor=3070745 |s2cid=143900100 }}</ref> One of his commissioners once told him not to entertain the thought of wanting to join a British club in the district.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Tony |last1=Ballantyne | authorlink1= Tony Ballantyne |first2=Antoinette M. |last2=Burton | authorlink2 = Antoinette Burton |year=2005 |title=Bodies in Contact |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YEWulnOX_TgC&pg=PA193 |publisher=Duke University Press |page=193 |isbn=0-8223-3467-4}}</ref>

De retired from active service in 1910.

==Post-Retirement==
After retirement he remained involved in the work of the Calcutta Improvement Trust.<ref name="latemrbdepassingawayofanoldcivilian">'Late Mr. B.De: Passing Away of An Old Civilian' in ''Liberty'', Friday, 30 September 1932</ref><ref name="latemr.b.decalcuttacorporationtributes">"Late Mr. B. De, Calcutta Corporation Tributes", in ''Liberty'', Saturday, 1 October 1932</ref> He served as a vice-president of the council of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta.<ref name="birthcentenaryofbdecelebrated">"Birth Centenary of B.De Celebrated" in ''The Statesman'', Wednesday, 24 December 1952</ref><ref name="latemrbdecelebration">"He Rehabilitated Persian in Bengal: Tributes to Late B.De: Birthday Celebration" in ''Amrita Bazar Patrika'', Wednesday, 24 December 1952</ref>

==Academic==
De translated Kalidasa's 'Vikramorvasi' and 'Manichudabadana' from Sanskrit to English.<ref name="latemrbdepassingawayofanoldcivilian"/> He edited an English-Bengali dictionary<ref name="liberty"/> and published an article on inter dining in the Madras Social Reformer (1910).

He was the translator and editor, in two volumes, of [[Nizamuddin Ahmad]]'s '' The Tabaqat-i-Akbari''. The third volume, which he had left fully prepared, was posthumously published by Baini Prasad and M. Hidayat Hosain.<ref name="mr.b.dedeadretiredmemberofthecivilservice">"Mr.B.De Dead Retired Member of the Civil Service" in ''The Statesman'', 30 September 1932</ref><ref name="thestatusofmuslimwomeninmedievalindia">[https://books.google.com/books?id=yF4lDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT120&lpg=PT120&dq=Tabaqat+i+Akbari+-+Beni+Prasad&source=bl&ots=jpsDUeBIsE&sig=9Z1X7kHfL-B_-mTgLvZz8RuvAiU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJn-XwhNnOAhXLNo8KHV7XDlgQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=Tabaqat%20i%20Akbari%20-%20Beni%20Prasad&f=false Sudha Sharma, ''Status of Muslim Women in Medieval India'', Allahabad]</ref><ref name="Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari'"/>

==Legacy==
A road in Chinsura, the headquarter of Hooghly district<ref name="mapofchinsura">[https://www.google.com/maps/place/B.Dey+Rd,+Hooghly,+West+Bengal+712101/@22.9025053,88.3949378,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x39f893f96abb29e3:0x854c02d1d9d97a7d!8m2!3d22.9025053!4d88.3971265 Map of Chinsura, Hooghly, Bengal]</ref> and a hall in Malda, the headquarter of Malda district<ref name="mapofmalda"> [https://www.google.com/search?q=B.De+Hall%2C+Malda&oq=B.De+Hall%2C+Malda&aqs=chrome..69i57.15054j0j7&client=ms-android-samsung-gj-rev1&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#istate=lrl:mlt&trex=m_r:1,m_t:gwp,rc_q:B.De%2520Hall%252C%2520Malda,rc_ui:1,ru_gwp:0%252C6,ru_q:B.De%2520Hall%252C%2520Malda,trex_id:A9QtDb Map of Malda, Bengal]</ref> are named after him.

==Publications==

*(Ed. & tran.), Kālidāsa's play [[Vikramōrvaśīyam|Vikramorvasi]], Canto I., in ''[[Calcutta Review]]'', Oct. 1884, pp. 440–2.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Schuyler, Jr.|first=Montgomery|title=Bibliography of Kālidāsa's Mālavikāgnimitra and Vikramorvaçī|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|date=1902|volume=23|pages=93–101|jstor=592384|doi=10.2307/592384}}</ref>
* (Ed. & tran.), ''The Tabaqat-i-Akbari of Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmad: A History of India from the Early Musalman Invasions to the Thirty-eighth year of the Reign of Akbar'' (in 3 Vols.), (Calcutta, reprint, 1973)<ref>[http://www.lppindia.com/servlet/lppgetbiblio?bno=000476 Tabaqat-i-Akbari by Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmed]</ref>
* "Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service", in ''Calcutta Review'', (1953–5) (in 3 parts).<ref>[http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/10689/12810/10/Bibliography.pdf Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service' in the Calcutta Review]</ref><ref name="feministpostcolonialisttheory">[https://books.google.com/books?id=ccFuGe-hBt0C&pg=PA456&lpg=PA456&dq=Brajendranath+De+-+Presidency+College&source=bl&ots=K2kq_JjbhL&sig=V-I5vHvmGjlu79Vk2GPSfn-c9QY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD0cvf8u7ZAhVMo48KHYq3CRU4ChDoAQgyMAM#v=onepage&q=Brajendranath%20De%20-%20Presidency%20College&f=false Mrinalini Sinha, "Reconfiguring Hiararchies: The Ilbert Bill Controversy, 1883-84", in Reina Lewis and Sarah Mills, ''Feminist Post-Colonialist Theory: A Reader'', New York and London, Routledge, 2003, p. 456]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.asiaticsocietycal.com/ The Asiatic Society, Calcutta]

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Brajendranath De

2022-01-23T23:53:12Z

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'''Brajendranath De''' ({{lang-bn|'''ব্রজেন্দ্রনাথ দে'''}}) (23 December, 1852 – 20 September, 1932) ({{lang-bn|১০ পৌষ, ১২৫৯ - ০৪ আশ্বিন, ১৩৩৯}}) was an early Indian member of the Indian Civil Service.<ref name="indiasagawhoswho">[http://indiansaga.com/whoswho/brajendra.html Indiasaga Who's Who]</ref>

==Early life and education==
De, a member of a Kayastha-Brahmo family of Calcutta, was born to Durgadas De (দূর্গাদাস দে), an early student of Hindu College, Calcutta (later renamed Presidency University) and Trailokyamohini Debi (ত্রৈলোক্যমোহিনী দেবী). He studied at [[Hare School]], [[Calcutta]], and then Canning Collegiate School and Canning College, Lucknow,<ref name="Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari'">[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.116007/2015.116007.The-Tabaqat-i-akbari-Of-Khwajah-Nizamuddin-Ahmad-Voliii_djvu.txt Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari']</ref> where he was a pupil of Saiyid Husain Bilgrami.

Later, he travelled to England for his higher studies, joining University College, London to appear in the Open Competitive Services examination. He joined the ICS in 1873,<ref>{{cite book |last=India Office, Great Britain |date=1905 |title=The India List and India Office List 1905 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA447 |publisher=Harrison and Sons |page=447}}</ref> becoming the 8th Indian member of the steel frame.<ref name="womenofindia">Geraldine Forbes, 'Women in Modern India', The New Cambridge History of India, Volume IV.2, (Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 28–29</ref> Subsequently, he was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple on 7 June 1875.<ref>Renu Paul (in consultation with Mitra Sharafi), 'South Asians at the Inns of Court: Middle Temple, 1863-1944', compilation based on H. A. C. Sturgess, (eds.) 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 (1910-44), p. 2.</ref> He was admitted to St. Mary Hall, Oxford, where he spent one year, from 1874-1875, on a Boden Sanskrit Scholarship, attending lectures of Max Mueller and Monier-Williams.<ref name="oxforduniversitycalender">Oxford University Calendar, 1875, p. 366</ref><ref name="bkde'snote"> Note written by his third eldest son, Basanta Kumar De, on the occasion of his mother's 50th death anniversary in 1969.</ref>

His fifth eldest daughter was [[Saroj Nalini Dutt]]<ref name="womenofindia"/> and his third eldest son was [[Basanta Kumar De]], whose son was [[Barun De]].

==Career==
He took up his first posting in the civil service as assistant magistrate and collector of Arrah, Behar in 1875. After serving in a number of districts in Behar, he was posted in Raniganj, Bengal in 1881.<ref>[http://www.mocavo.com/The-New-Annual-Army-List-Militia-List-and-Indian-Civil-Service-List-1881-Volume-1881/393337/783 Military and ICS Manual]</ref> He officiated as the district magistrate and collector of Bankura, Burdwan and Faridpore. He served as the full district magistrate and collector of Khulna, where he was befriended by Dr. Krishnadhan Ghosh, the civil surgeon of the district, and the father of Aurobindo Ghosh.<ref name="sriaurobindo"> Peter Heehs, 'The Lives of Sri Aurobindo', (New York:
Columbia University Press, 2008), p. 33</ref><ref>{{cite journal |date=6 August 1893 |title=Govt. Notifications: Orders by the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3KopAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT298 |journal=The Liberal and the New Dispensation |volume=XII |issue=30 |location=Calcutta |publisher=R.S. Bhattacharji |pages=9}}</ref> He became the magistrate and collector of [[Balasore district|Balasore]] in [[Orissa]] and then of [[Malda district|Malda]] and [[Hooghly district|Hooghly]].<ref name="Bengalee">"Mr. B. De", in ''Bengalee'', 7 September 1910; see also ''Indian Daily'' News, 3 September 1910</ref> He was the first Indian to be elected as chairman of the Hooghly Municipal Corporation. He was an (acting) commissioner of the Burdwan Division.<ref name="socialthoughtofrabindranathtagore">{{cite book |last=Gupta |first=Tapati Dutta |date=1993 |title=Social Thought of Rabindranath Tagore: A Historical Analysis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0HrBJJBFutsC&pg=PA122 |publisher=Abhinav Publications |page=122|isbn=9788170173021}}</ref><ref name="liberty">"Late Mr. B. De.: Passing Away of an Old Civilian" in ''Liberty'', Friday, 30 September 1932</ref>

As the district officer of Hooghly, he started the Duke Club there which was meant to be exclusively for Indians.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Mrinalini |last=Sinha |title=Britishness, Clubbability, and the Colonial Public Sphere: The Genealogy of an Imperial Institution in Colonial India |journal=The Journal of British Studies |volume=4 |issue=44 |date=October 2001 |pages=489–521 |doi=10.1086/386265 |jstor=3070745 |s2cid=143900100 }}</ref> One of his commissioners once told him not to entertain the thought of wanting to join a British club in the district.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Tony |last1=Ballantyne | authorlink1= Tony Ballantyne |first2=Antoinette M. |last2=Burton | authorlink2 = Antoinette Burton |year=2005 |title=Bodies in Contact |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YEWulnOX_TgC&pg=PA193 |publisher=Duke University Press |page=193 |isbn=0-8223-3467-4}}</ref>

De retired from active service in 1910.

==Post-Retirement==
After retirement he remained involved in the work of the Calcutta Improvement Trust.<ref name="latemrbdepassingawayofanoldcivilian">'Late Mr. B.De: Passing Away of An Old Civilian' in ''Liberty'', Friday, 30 September 1932</ref><ref name="latemr.b.decalcuttacorporationtributes">"Late Mr. B. De, Calcutta Corporation Tributes", in ''Liberty'', Saturday, 1 October 1932</ref> He served as a vice-president of the council of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta.<ref name="birthcentenaryofbdecelebrated">"Birth Centenary of B.De Celebrated" in ''The Statesman'', Wednesday, 24 December 1952</ref><ref name="latemrbdecelebration">"He Rehabilitated Persian in Bengal: Tributes to Late B.De: Birthday Celebration" in ''Amrita Bazar Patrika'', Wednesday, 24 December 1952</ref>

==Academic==
De translated Kalidasa's 'Vikramorvasi' and 'Manichudabadana' from Sanskrit to English.<ref name="latemrbdepassingawayofanoldcivilian"/> He edited an English-Bengali dictionary<ref name="liberty"/> and published an article on inter dining in the Madras Social Reformer (1910).

He was the translator and editor, in two volumes, of [[Nizamuddin Ahmad]]'s '' The Tabaqat-i-Akbari''. The third volume, which he had left fully prepared, was posthumously published by Baini Prasad and M. Hidayat Hosain.<ref name="mr.b.dedeadretiredmemberofthecivilservice">"Mr.B.De Dead Retired Member of the Civil Service" in ''The Statesman'', 30 September 1932</ref><ref name="thestatusofmuslimwomeninmedievalindia">[https://books.google.com/books?id=yF4lDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT120&lpg=PT120&dq=Tabaqat+i+Akbari+-+Beni+Prasad&source=bl&ots=jpsDUeBIsE&sig=9Z1X7kHfL-B_-mTgLvZz8RuvAiU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJn-XwhNnOAhXLNo8KHV7XDlgQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=Tabaqat%20i%20Akbari%20-%20Beni%20Prasad&f=false Sudha Sharma, ''Status of Muslim Women in Medieval India'', Allahabad]</ref><ref name="Full Text of 'Tabaqat-i-Akbari'"/>

==Legacy==
A road in Chinsura, the headquarter of Hooghly district<ref name="mapofchinsura">[https://www.google.com/maps/place/B.Dey+Rd,+Hooghly,+West+Bengal+712101/@22.9025053,88.3949378,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x39f893f96abb29e3:0x854c02d1d9d97a7d!8m2!3d22.9025053!4d88.3971265 Map of Chinsura, Hooghly, Bengal]</ref> and a hall in Malda, the headquarter of Malda district<ref name="mapofmalda"> [https://www.google.com/search?q=B.De+Hall%2C+Malda&oq=B.De+Hall%2C+Malda&aqs=chrome..69i57.15054j0j7&client=ms-android-samsung-gj-rev1&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#istate=lrl:mlt&trex=m_r:1,m_t:gwp,rc_q:B.De%2520Hall%252C%2520Malda,rc_ui:1,ru_gwp:0%252C6,ru_q:B.De%2520Hall%252C%2520Malda,trex_id:A9QtDb Map of Malda, Bengal]</ref> are named after him.

==Publications==

*(Ed. & tran.), [[Kālidāsa]]'s play [[Vikramōrvaśīyam|Vikramorvasi]], Canto I., in ''[[Calcutta Review]]'', Oct. 1884, pp. 440–2.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Schuyler, Jr.|first=Montgomery|title=Bibliography of Kālidāsa's Mālavikāgnimitra and Vikramorvaçī|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|date=1902|volume=23|pages=93–101|jstor=592384|doi=10.2307/592384}}</ref>
* (Ed. & tran.), ''The Tabaqat-i-Akbari of Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmad: A History of India from the Early Musalman Invasions to the Thirty-eighth year of the Reign of Akbar'' (in 3 Vols.), (Calcutta, reprint, 1973)<ref>[http://www.lppindia.com/servlet/lppgetbiblio?bno=000476 Tabaqat-i-Akbari by Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmed]</ref>
* "Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service", in ''Calcutta Review'', (1953–5) (in 3 parts).<ref>[http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/10689/12810/10/Bibliography.pdf Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service' in the Calcutta Review]</ref><ref name="feministpostcolonialisttheory">[https://books.google.com/books?id=ccFuGe-hBt0C&pg=PA456&lpg=PA456&dq=Brajendranath+De+-+Presidency+College&source=bl&ots=K2kq_JjbhL&sig=V-I5vHvmGjlu79Vk2GPSfn-c9QY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD0cvf8u7ZAhVMo48KHYq3CRU4ChDoAQgyMAM#v=onepage&q=Brajendranath%20De%20-%20Presidency%20College&f=false Mrinalini Sinha, "Reconfiguring Hiararchies: The Ilbert Bill Controversy, 1883-84", in Reina Lewis and Sarah Mills, ''Feminist Post-Colonialist Theory: A Reader'', New York and London, Routledge, 2003, p. 456]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.asiaticsocietycal.com/ The Asiatic Society, Calcutta]

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