Brajendranath De: Difference between revisions

Later, he travelled to England for his higher studies, where he joined University College, London to appear in the Open Competitive Services examination. He joined the [[Indian Civil Service]] 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 [[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), ... 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>[http://hosted.law.wisc.edu/wordpress/sharafi/files/2010/07/Middle-2.0.pdf University of Wisconsin Law Library]{{Dead link|date=June 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</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 Professor [[Max Mueller]].<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 fifth daughter was the social reformer, [[Saroj Nalini Dutt]],<ref name="womenofindia"/> and his sixth son-in-law was Lieutenant Colonel Jyotish Chandra De,<ref name="livesless forgotten">[http://rajsaday.com/?p=2089 Lives Less Forgotten: Lieutenant Colonel Jyotish Chandra De]</ref> who was a member of the [[Indian Medical Service]]. His third son, [[Draft: Basanta Kumar De|Basanta Kumar De]], was a senior officer of the [[Bengal Nagpur Railway|BNR]], whose son was the historian, [[Barun De]].