Kshitimohan Sen

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Kshitimohan Sen (2 December 1880 – 12 March 1960) was an Indian scholar, writer, a Sanskrit professor and an M.A. in Sanskrit from Queen's College, Benares. He was born in a Baidya family hailing from Sonarang in Bengal Presidency (now in Bangladesh). He started his working life at the Department of Education, Chamba State. In 1908, at the call of Rabindranath Tagore, he joined Brahmacharyashram. Later he performed responsibility of Adhyaksha of Vidyabhaban. He was the first Deshikottam (1952) of Vishwa Bharati. He was an acting Upacharyas of Visva-Bharati University (1953–1954).[1] He is the maternal grandfather of Amartya Sen.[2]

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Kshitimohan Sen
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Kshitimohan Sen with Rabindranath Tagore
Born(1880-11-30)30 November 1880
Dhaka Bikrampur Now Munshiganj East Bengal (now Bangladesh), British India
Died12 March 1960(1960-03-12) (aged 79)
NationalityIndian
Occupation(s)Professor, writer
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  • Kabir (1910–11)
  • Bharatiya Madhyayuger Sadhanar Dhara (1930)
  • Dadu (1935)
  • Bharater Sangskrti (1943)
  • Banglar Sadhana (1945)
  • Yuga Guru Rammohan (1945)
  • Jatibhed (1946)
  • Banglar Baul (1947)
  • Hindu Sangskrtir Svarup (1947)
  • Bharater Hindu-Mussalman Yukta Sadhana (1949)
  • Prachin Bharate Nari (1950)
  • Chinmay Banga (1957)
  • Hinduism (1961)
  • Sadhak O Sadhana (2003)

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