16 Notable alumni of
Sanskrit College and University
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Sanskrit College and University is 2148th in the world, 513th in Asia, and 55th in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 16 notable alumni from Sanskrit College and University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
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- writerprofessorhead teacher
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Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay, popularly known as Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (lit. 'Vidyasagar, the Sea of Knowledge'), was an Indian educator and social reformer of the nineteenth century. His efforts to simplify and modernise Bengali prose were significant. He also rationalised and simplified the Bengali alphabet and type, which had remained unchanged since Charles Wilkins and Panchanan Karmakar had cut the first (wooden) Bengali type in 1780.
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Kumaran Asan
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- poetwriter
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Mahakavi Kumaran Asan was a poet of Malayalam literature, Indian social reformer and a philosopher. He is known to have initiated a revolution in Malayalam poetry during the first quarter of the 20th century, transforming it from the metaphysical to the lyrical and his poetry is characterised by its moral and spiritual content, poetic concentration and dramatic contextualisation. He is one of the triumvirate poets of Kerala and a disciple of Sree Narayana Guru. He was awarded the prefix "Mahakavi" in 1922 by the Madras university which means "great poet".
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Abanindranath Tagore
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- writerpainter
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Abanindranath Tagore CIE was an Indian painter who was the principal artist and creator of the Indian Society of Oriental Art in 1907. He was also the first major exponent of Swadeshi values in Indian art. He founded the influential Bengal school of art, which led to the development of modern Indian painting. He was also a noted writer, particularly for children. Popularly known as 'Aban Thakur', his books Rajkahini, Buro Angla, Nalak, and Khirer Putul were landmarks in Bengali language children's literature and art.
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Haraprasad Shastri
- Enrolled in Sanskrit College and University
- In 1877 graduated with Master of Arts
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- writerteacherscholar
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Hara Prasad Shastri, also known as Hara Prasad Bhattacharya, was an Indian academic, Sanskrit scholar, archivist, and historian of Bengali literature. He is most known for discovering the Charyapada, the earliest known examples of Bengali literature.
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Bijoy Krishna Goswami
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- writer
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Bijoy Krishna Goswami, also known by the honorific Gosaiji, was a Hindu social reformer and religious figure in India during the British period.
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Surendranath Dasgupta
- Enrolled in Sanskrit College and University
- In 1908 graduated with Master of Arts
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- botanistpoetteacherwriterhistorian of religion
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Surendranath Dasgupta was an Indian scholar of Sanskrit and Indian philosophy.
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Krishna Kanta Handique
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- Indologist
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Krishna Kanta Handique was a Sanskrit scholar, an Indologist and philanthropist from Assam. He was a recipient of the civilian honour of the Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan.
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Madhusudan Gupta
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- anatomistphysician
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Pandit Madhusudan Gupta was a Bengali Baidya Brahmin translator and Ayurvedic practitioner who was also trained in Western medicine and is credited with having performed India's first human dissection at Calcutta Medical College (CMC) in 1836, almost 3,000 years after Susruta.
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Narendranath Dhar
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- philosopherwriterauthoryogi
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Sri Anirvan, born Narendra Chandra Dhar, was an Indian Hindu monk, writer and philosopher. Widely known as a scholar, his principal works were a Bengali translation of Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine and the three-volume treatise Veda Mimamsa.
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Madan Mohan Tarkalankar
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- 1817-1858 (aged 41)
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- judgepoetprofessoreditor
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Madanmohan Tarkalankar is one of the Sanskrit scholars of the Indian subcontinent in the nineteenth century who has made a special contribution to the development of written Bengali language. He is also considered as one of the pioneers of the Bengali renaissance. He was a professor at Fort William College and authored several textbooks on early childhood education.
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Shibnath Shastri
- Enrolled in Sanskrit College and University
- In 1872 graduated with Master of Arts in Sanskrit
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- writereditorhead teacher
- Biography
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Sivanath Shastri or Sibanath Sastri was a Bengali social reformer, writer, translator, scholar, editor philoshoper and historian.
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Bhudev Mukhopadhyay
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- editorwritercivil servantteacher
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Bhudev Mukhopadhyay was a writer and intellectual in 19th century Bengal. His works were considered ardent displays of nationalism and philosophy in the period of the Bengal renaissance. His novel Anguriya Binimoy (1857) was the first historical novel written in Bengal.
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Bimal Krishna Matilal
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- philosopher
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Bimal Krishna Matilal was an eminent philosopher whose writings presented the Indian philosophical tradition as a comprehensive system of logic incorporating most issues addressed by themes in Western philosophy. Born in Calcutta, he lived and worked in Calcutta, Harvard, Toronto and Oxford. From 1977 to 1991, he served as the Spalding Professor of Eastern Religion and Ethics at the University of Oxford.
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Saradaranjan Ray
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- 1858-1925 (aged 67)
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- Sanskrit scholarcricketerteacher
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Saradaranjan Ray was a Bengali teacher of mathematics and Sanskrit who worked at Aligarh University and at Calcutta. He was also a cricket enthusiast and promoter who has been called the "W.G. Grace of India" and as the father of cricket in Bengal. He founded "The Town Club", a cricket club in Calcutta that played against European teams in the Eden Gardens from 1895. He was the elder brother of Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury and hence a paternal great-uncle of Satyajit Ray.
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Jamini Bhushan Ray
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- scientistAyurvedacharya
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Jamini Bhushan Ray was an Indian physician, as well as an Ayurvedic doctor (Kabiraj), an erudite Sanskrit scholar, and a philanthropist.
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Jogendranath Bandyopadhyay
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- professorjudgeeditorwriterjournalist
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Yogendra Vidyabhushan (Banerjee) (1845–1904) was an Indian Bengali scholar in Sanskrit, thinker, journalist and popular author of biographies which stirred patriotic zeal in the readers' heart. Loved by Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar, admired by Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo, he helped the rise of militant nationalism.
