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'''Pabitra Kumar Sen''' (15 May, 1906, [[Comilla]], [[Bangladesh]],- 15 September, 1997 [[Calcutta]]) <ref name="Sansad">{{cite book | title=Sansad Bengali Charitabhidhan Vol.II | publisher= Sahitya Sansad,Kolkata | author= Anjali Bose | year=2019 | pages=211 | isbn=978-81-7955-292-6}}</ref> was the Khaira Professor of Agriculture, [[Calcutta University]], and founder of the College of Agriculture at Calcutta University in the 1950s. <br />
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Sen obtained his doctoral degree from the [[Imperial College]] in [[London, England]] in the 1920s and served as plant [[physiologist]] and [[horticulturist]] under the British India government during the 1930s in Sabore, [[Bihar, India]]. He was invited by [[Syama Prasad Mookerjee]] to start a college. He was highly influenced by [[Gandhi]] and [[Rabindranath Tagore|Tagore]] and worked on village reconstruction in [[Santiniketan]] during the 1940s. He founded Seva-Bharati, in the village of Kapgari, [[Midnapur]], [[West Bengal]] in 1948 as an experiment of applying education to elevate the living conditions of the very poor. Sen started with Kapgari, one of the poorest villages in [[India]], and created schools ranging from nursery school up through research centers.<ref>[http://www.kapgari.org www.kapgari.org]</ref> Sen wrote a research article about several interesting developmental projects in the area in a paper entitled ''The village situation in India and reorganisation of its agricultural resources: A case study'',<ref>{{cite journal | doi=10.1016/0309-586X(76)90032-7 | volume=3 | title=The village situation in India and reorganisation of its agricultural resources: A case study | journal=Agricultural Administration | pages=53–77| year=1976 | last1=Sen | first1=P.K. | last2=Ghoshal | first2=S.N. }}</ref> published in Agricultural Administration, Elsevier.<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://propoor.org/ngos/?id=1873 Seva-Bharati at propoor.org]<br />
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Some of the contributions<br />
* http://www.caluniv.ac.in/academic/department/Horticulture.html<br />
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