Basanta Kumar De: Difference between revisions

De, who was a member of a Kayastha-Brahmo family of Calcutta, was the third son of [[Brajendranath De]], Esq., ICS and Nagendranandini De (née Bose).<ref name="awomanofindia">Kundu, Rajib, (tr. & ed.), Saroj Nalini: Shankhipta Jibani, (Ababhash, Kolkata, 2014) (in Bengali), (translation of her husband Gurusaday Dutt's, 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> He completed his education at [[Hare School|Hare School, Calcutta]] and [[Presidency College, Calcutta]], where he completed his B.A. (Hons.) in English. He attended [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], where his moral tutor was [[James Drummond Anderson]], Esq., ICS. Later, he was admitted to The Honourable Society of [[Middle Temple]].<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 the historian, [[Barun De]].