Kshitimohan Sen

Kshitimohan Sen
Kshitimohan Sen with Rabindranath Tagore
Born	(1880-11-30)30 November 1880 Benaras United Province, British India
Died	12 March 1960(1960-03-12) (aged 79) Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation(s)	Professor, writer

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 Brahmin 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]

Books

• 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)

References

External links

• Works by or about Kshitimohan Sen at Internet Archive
• Biography at Visva-Bharati University's official website