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{{Infobox person
| name = Suniti Kumar Chatterji
| image = File:Sunitikumar Chatterjee.jpg
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1890|11|26|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Shibpur, [[Howrah district|Howrah]], [[Bengal]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1977|5|29|1890|10|26|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], India
| nationality = Indian
| awards = [[Padma Bhushan]] {{small|(1955)}}
| signature = Suniti Kumar Chatterjii Bengali Sign.svg
}}

'''Bhashacharya Acharya Suniti Kumar Chatterji''' (26 November 1890 – 29 May 1977) was an [[India]]n linguist, educationist and litterateur. He has coined the name of the State, [[Meghalaya]] carved out from [[Assam]] in [[1972]]. He was a recipient of the second-highest Indian civilian honour of [[Padma Vibhushan]].<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=21 July 2015}}</ref>

==Life==
===Childhood===
Chatterji was born on 26 November 1890 at [[Shibpur]] in [[Howrah]]. He was the son of Haridas Chattopadhyay, an affluent [[Kulin Brahmin]]. Professor Chatterji's great grandfather Sri Bhairab Chatterji, had migrated to a village in the district of Hooghly from his ancestral village home in the district of Faridpur in East
Bengal, now in Bangladesh. Bhairab Chatterji, like many other Kulina Brahmins of the day, subsisted mainly on polygamy. Bhairab had a few wives, but he livedwith the one who had belonged to the village in Hooghly. Bhairab's son Isvarchandra, the grandfather of Chatterji, had served the East India Company in North India during the Mutiny. After retirement he built a modest one storied house for himself in Calcutta and shifted there the residence of thefamily from the Hooghly village. Isvar's son Haridas Chatterji was the father of Suniti Kumar. .<ref name=Banglapedia>{{cite book |last=Badiuzzaman |year=2012 |chapter=Chatterji, Suniti Kumar |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Chatterji,_Suniti_Kumar |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref>

===Education===
Suniti Kumar was a meritorious student, and passed the Entrance (school leaving) examination from the [[Motilal Seal|Mutty Lal Seal]]'s Free School (1907), ranking sixth, and the FA (pre-university examination) from the renowned [[Scottish Church College]], standing third.{{Citation needed|date=May 2018}} He did his Major (Honours) in English literature from Presidency College, Kolkata, standing first in the first class in 1911.{{Citation needed|date=May 2018}} His childhood friend was the famous industrialist [[Nagendra Nath Das]] founder of Power Tools And Appliance Co. Ltd. In 1913, he completed his M.A. in English literature, again standing first.{{Citation needed|date=May 2018}} The same year, he was appointed lecturer in English at Vidyasagar College, Kolkata where his colleague was the thespian, [[Sisir Kumar Bhaduri]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2018}}

===Profession===
In 1914, he became assistant professor of English in the Post-Graduate Department of the University of Calcutta, which he held till 1919. He went abroad to study at the [[University of London]] where he studied [[Phonology]], Indo-European [[Linguistics]], [[Prakrit]], [[Persian language|Persian]], Old [[Irish language|Irish]], [[Gothic language|Gothic]] and other languages. He then went to Paris and did research at the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]] in Indo-Aryan, [[Slavic languages|Slav]] and Indo-European Linguistics, Greek and Latin. His teacher was the internationally acclaimed linguist, [[Jules Bloch]]. After returning to India in 1922, he joined the [[University of Calcutta]] as the Khaira Professor of Indian Linguistics and Phonetics. After retirement in 1952, he was made Professor Emeritus and later in 1965, the National Research Professor of India for Humanities.{{Citation needed|date=May 2018}}


===Foreign travel with Tagore===
Suniti Kumar accompanied [[Rabindranath Tagore]] to [[British Malaya|Malaya]], [[Siam]], [[Sumatra]], [[Java]], and [[Bali]], where he delivered lectures on Indian art and culture. He was Chairman of the [[West Bengal]] Legislative Council (1952–58) and President (1969) of the [[Sahitya Akademi]].

==Bibliography==
* {{cite journal|title=Bengali Phonetics|year=1921|journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London|location=London|publisher=Cambridge University Press|volume=2|issue=1|pages=1–25|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|doi=10.1017/S0041977X0010179X|jstor=607733|author-mask=1|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/607733.pdf}}
* {{cite journal|title=The Study of Kol|date=September 1923|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.48022/page/n258/mode/1up|journal=The Calcutta Review|pages=451–473|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|author-mask=1}}
* {{cite book|title=The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.42610|publisher=Calcutta University Press|location=Calcutta|year=1926|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|author-mask=1}}
* {{cite book|title=Bengali Self-Taught|series=Marlborough's Self-Taught Series|year=1927|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|author-mask=1}}
* {{cite book|title=A Bengali Phonetic Reader|publisher=University of London Press|year=1928|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|author-mask=1}}
* {{cite journal|title=Calcutta Hindustani: A study of a Jargon Dialect|journal=Indian Linguistics|volume=1|issue=2–4|year=1931|pages=177–233|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|author-mask=1}}
* {{cite journal|title=A Roman Alphabet for India|journal=Calcutta University Phonetic Studies|issue=4|publisher=Calcutta University Press|year=1935|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|author-mask=1|url=http://cslrepository.nvli.in/handle/123456789/7138}}
* {{cite journal|title=Purāṇa Legends and the Prakrit Tradition in New Indo-Aryan|year=1936|journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London|location=London|publisher=Cambridge University Press|volume=8|issue=2/3|pages=457–466|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|doi=10.1017/S0041977X00141096|jstor=608054|author-mask=1|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/608054.pdf}}
* {{cite journal|title=Non-Aryan Elements in Indo-aryan|year=1936|journal=Journal of the Greater India Society|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|author-mask=1}}
* {{cite book|script-title=bn:দ্বীপময় ভারত|trans-title=Island India|publisher=Book Co.|location=Calcutta|year=1940|language=bn|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.336055|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|author-mask=1}}
* {{cite journal|title=Kirāta-jana-kṛti: the Indo-Mongoloids; their contribution to the history and culture of India|year=1951|journal=Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|author-mask=1}}
* {{cite book|title=Indo-Aryan and Hindi|publisher=University of Calcutta|url=https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.2478|year=1942|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|author-mask=1}}
* {{cite book|title=Language and Linguistic Problems|series=Oxford Pamphlets on Indian Affairs|volume=11|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1943|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|author-mask=1}}
* {{cite journal|title= The Languages of the Adivasis|journal=March of India|volume=6|issue=2|year=1953|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|author-mask=1}}
* {{cite book|script-title=bn:ভারত সংস্কৃতি|trans-title=Culture of India|year=1957|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.357782|publisher=Gupta-prakashika|language=bn|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|author-mask=1}}
* {{cite book|title=A Middle Indo-Aryan Reader|year=1960|publisher=Calcutta University|location=Calcutta|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|author-mask=1|author2=Sukumar Sen}}
* {{cite journal|title=Mutual Borrowing in Indo-Aryan|year=1960|publisher=Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute|location=Pune|journal=Bulletin of the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute|volume=20|issue=1|pages=50–62|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|jstor=42929737|author-mask=1|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/42929737.pdf}}
* {{cite book|title=Language and Literature of Modern India|year=1963|publisher=Bengal Publishers|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|author-mask=1}}
* {{cite book|chapter=Race Movements and Prehistoric Culture|title=The Vedic Age|year=1965|location=Bombay|publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan|editor=R. C. Majumdar|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|author-mask=1}}
* {{cite book|title=The People, Language, and Culture of Orissa|year=1966|publisher=Orissa Sahitya Akademi|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|author-mask=1}}
* {{cite book|title=Balts and Aryans in Their Indo-European Background|year=1968|publisher=Simla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|author-mask=1|url=https://books.google.com.br/books/about/Balts_and_Aryans_in_Their_Indo_European.html?id=9hEHAQAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y}}
* {{cite book|title=India and Ethiopia: From the Seventh Century B.C.|year=1968|publisher=Asiatic Society|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|author-mask=1}}
* {{cite book|title=Ramayana: its Character, Genesis, History and Exodus: A Resume|location=Calcutta|publisher=Prajña|year=1978|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|author-mask=1}}
* {{cite book|title=The place of Assam in the history and civilisation of India|year=1970|publisher=Dept. of Publication, University of Gauhati|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|author-mask=1}}
* {{cite book|title=World Literature and Tagore|publisher=Visva-Bharati|year=1971|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|author-mask=1}}
* {{cite book|title=On the development of Middle Indo-Aryan|publisher=Sanskrit College|year=1983|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|author-mask=1}}
* {{cite journal|title=Spoken Word in the Speech-lore of India: the Background|journal=Papers in Phonetics and Phonology: Proceedings of an Institute|editor=B.B. Rajapurohit|publisher=Central Institute of Indian Languages|year=1984|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|author-mask=1}}
* {{cite journal|title=The Name 'Assam-Ahom'|journal=Journal of the Asiatic Society|volume=28|issue=3|year=1986|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|author-mask=1}}
* {{cite journal|title=The Word About Igor's Folk (Slavo O Pulku Igoreve) As a Specimen of Old Slav and Indo-European Heroic Poetry|journal=Journal of the Asiatic Society|volume=28|issue=3|year=1986|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|author-mask=1}}
* {{cite journal|title=Two New Indo-Aryan Etymologies|journal=Indian Linguistics|year=1989|author=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|author-mask=1}}

Bibliographies of Suniti Kumar Chatterji's work have also been published:
* {{cite book|url=http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/10689/13206/6/Chapter%203_a_31-88p.pdf|title=Suniti Kumar Chatterji: A Select Bibliography of his Writings|last=Kanjilal|first=Anil Kumar}}

==Notable students==
*[[Sukumar Sen (linguist)|Sukumar Sen]]
*Sukumari Bhattacharya

==Death==
Suniti Kumar died on May 29, 1977 in [[Calcutta]]. A large part of his house 'Sudharma' সুধর্মা, an architectural marvel, in South [[Calcutta]] has been converted into a [[Fabindia]] store.

==References==
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