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{{short description|Indian Bengali poet}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Bijay Chandra Majumdar
| image = MajumderBijayChandra.jpg
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1861|10|27|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Khanakul, [[Faridpur District|Faridpur]], [[British India]] (present-day [[Bangladesh]])
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1942|12|30|1861|10|27|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], India
| resting_place =
| occupation = poet, linguist, anthropologist and archaeologist
| education =
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}}

'''Bijay Chandra Majumdar''' ({{langx|bn|বিজয়চন্দ্র মজুমদার}}) (27 October 1861 – 30 December 1942) was an Indian [[Bengali language|Bengali]] poet, linguist, archaeologist, anthropologist and researcher known for his linguistic studies on the [[Charyapada]]. He was nominated for the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[1937 Nobel Prize in Literature|1937]] and [[1939 Nobel Prize in Literature|1939]] as ''Bensadhar Majumdar''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show_people.php?id=5830|title=Nomination archive – Bensadhar Majumdar|website=nobelprize.org|access-date=11 December 2024}}</ref>

==Biography==
===Early life===
Majumdar was born on 27 October 1861 in Khanakul, [[Faridpur District|Faridpur]], [[British India]]. He graduated at the [[Hooghly Branch Government School]] in 1885 and Metropolitan College in [[Kolkata]], India in 1895 with degrees on literature, history, science and law.<ref>( প্রথম খণ্ড)। কলকাতার সংসদ বাঙালি চরিতাভিধান। কলকাতা: সাহিত্য সংসদ। পৃষ্ঠা ৪৬৫, ৪৬৬। (in Bengali); (Part One). ''Kolkata Parliament Bengali Charitavidhan''. Kolkata: Sahitya Sangsad. Pages 465, 466. (in English)</ref>

===Career===
Majumdar started his career as a private tutor to the sons of [[Basudeb Sudhal Deb]], the [[Raja]] of [[Bamra]], and afterwards became the president of the Council of the State.<ref name=bn/> For forty years, he worked as a legal advisor for the [[Sonepur State|State of Sonepur]], a teacher at the Puri District School from 1887 to 1891, the headmaster of the Sambalpur District School since 1891, and later practiced law in the Sambalpur and Calcutta High Courts.<ref name=bn/>

Majumdar was equally proficient in [[Sanskrit]], [[Pali]] and [[Prakrit]]. He was invited to give lectures on Indian tradition and attended the Mahadharma Conference in [[London]] in 1908. In 1918, he joined the University of Calcutta as a professor despite being becoming blind since 1914. During this period, he wrote his famous book ''Odisha in the Making [ওড়িশা ইন মেকিং]'' (1925), mainly collecting information from various religious texts and deciphering the inscriptions by running his hand over the tablets.<ref name=bn/>

Despite being blind, he was able to research literature, history and science tirelessly due to his extraordinary memory. He and [[Dinesh Chandra Sen]] jointly edited the ''Bangabani'' magazine and became its sole editor for the last four years. He also edited ''Shardiya Bangla'' (1339) and ''Barshik Shishu Sathi'' (1335).<ref name=bn>{{cite web|url=https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php/Majumder,_Bijay_Chandra|title=Majumder, Bijay Chandra|access-date=11 December 2024|website=Banglapedia}}</ref>

===Death===
Majumdar died on 30 December 1942.<ref name=bn/>

==Publications==
===Poetry collections===
* ''কবিতা'' ("Poem", 1889)
* ''যুগপূজা'' ("Yug Puja", 1892)
* ''ফুলশর'' ("Fulshar", 1904)
* ''যজ্ঞভস্ম'' ("Yajnabhasma", 1904)
* ''পঞ্চকমলা'' ("Panchakamala", 1910)

===Essays===
* ''থেরীগাথা'' ("Therigatha", 1905)
* ''গীতগোবিন্দ'' ("Gitagovinda", 1906)
* ''ব্যাকরণের সন্ধি'' ("Grammar Treaty", 1911)
* ''সচ্চিদানন্দ গ্রন্থাবলী'' ("Sachchidananda Books", 1926)
* ''প্রাচীন সভ্যতা'' ("Ancient Civilizations", 1915)
* ''ভারতবর্ষের ইতিহাস'' ("History of India", 1919)
* ''ওড়িশা ইন মেকিং'' ("Odisha in the Making", 1925)

===Editorials===
* ''বঙ্গবাণী'' ("Bangabani", 1921-27)
* ''শিশুসাথী'' ("Child Companion", 1928-32)
* ''বাংলা'' ("Bengali", 1932)

==References==
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