Basanta Kumar De: Difference between revisions

Dey, who was a member of a Bengali (বাঙালি) Hindu (হিন্দু) Uttar Rarhi Kayastha (উত্তর রার্হি কায়স্থ)-Brahmo (ব্রাহ্ম)  family of Calcutta, was the third son of [[Brajendranath De|Brajendranath Dey]] 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 completed his B.A. (Hons.) in English. He matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1919, where he read English. His moral tutor was James Drummond Anderson. Later, he was admitted to The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple in 1920.<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|Barun Dey]].<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"/>