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'''Sukumar Sen''' ({{lang-bn|সুকুমার সেন}}; 16 January 1900 – 3 March 1992) was a [[Bengali language|Bengali]] [[linguist]] and historian of the Bengali literature, who was also well versed in [[Pāli]], [[Prakrit]] and [[Sanskrit]]. | '''Sukumar Sen''' ({{lang-bn|সুকুমার সেন}}; 16 January 1900 – 3 March 1992) was a [[Bengali language|Bengali]] [[linguist]] and historian of the [[Bengali literature]], who was also well versed in [[Pāli]], [[Prakrit]] and [[Sanskrit]]. | ||
== Life == | == Life == | ||
Sen was born in 1900 to Harendra Nath Sen, a lawyer and Nabanalini Devi. His hometown was [[Gotan]], near [[Shyamsundar]] in the [[Purba Bardhaman district]]. Sen was educated at the Burdwan Municipal High School, Burdwan, 1917. He obtained an F.A. in 1919 from Burdwan Raj College, then affiliated with the University of Calcutta. He received a divisional scholarship and earned first class honours in [[Sanskrit]] from the Government Sanskrit College in 1921. He studied [[Comparative Philology]] in Kolkata, scoring the highest marks in 1923. Linguists [[Suniti Kumar Chatterji]] and Irach Jehangir Sorabji Taraporewala were his teachers. He received a Premchand Roychand Scholarship and a PhD degree.<ref name=r2>[https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/66dda24b-f169-3ce2-b374-ad1c6240c405?component=284c3e6e-c894-3929-9934-536914b2f3c0 1984 – Professor Sukumar Sen]. Royal Asiatic Society</ref><ref name=r3>Nancy Charley (25 May 2018) [https://royalasiaticsociety.org/silk-road-culture-and-more-gold-medallists/ Silk Road Culture and More Gold Medallists]. Royal Asiatic Society </ref> | Sen was born in 1900 to Harendra Nath Sen, a lawyer and Nabanalini Devi. His hometown was [[Gotan]], near [[Shyamsundar]] in the [[Purba Bardhaman district]]. Sen was educated at the Burdwan Municipal High School, Burdwan, 1917. He obtained an F.A. in 1919 from Burdwan Raj College, then affiliated with the [[University of Calcutta]]. He received a divisional scholarship and earned first class honours in [[Sanskrit]] from the Government [[Sanskrit college|Sanskrit College]] in 1921. He studied [[Comparative Philology]] in Kolkata, scoring the highest marks in 1923. Linguists [[Suniti Kumar Chatterji]] and Irach Jehangir Sorabji Taraporewala were his teachers. He received a Premchand Roychand Scholarship and a PhD degree.<ref name=r2>[https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/66dda24b-f169-3ce2-b374-ad1c6240c405?component=284c3e6e-c894-3929-9934-536914b2f3c0 1984 – Professor Sukumar Sen]. Royal Asiatic Society</ref><ref name=r3>Nancy Charley (25 May 2018) [https://royalasiaticsociety.org/silk-road-culture-and-more-gold-medallists/ Silk Road Culture and More Gold Medallists]. Royal Asiatic Society </ref> | ||
Sen retired from the University in 1964. | Sen retired from the University in 1964. | ||