Brajendranath De
| Brajendranath De | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 23, 1852 Calcutta |
| Died | September 20, 1932 (aged 79) Calcutta |
| Occupation | Orientalist |
| Spouse(s) | Nagendranandini De (nee Bose) |
Brajendranath De (23 December 1852 – 20 September 1932) was an early Indian member of the Indian Civil Service.
De studied at Canning College, Lucknow, and later travelled to England, where he was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. He was also admitted to St. Mary Hall, Oxford, where he spent one year on a Boden Sanskrit Scholarship. He then joined the ICS, of which he was one of the earliest Indian entrants.
His fourth daughter was Saroj Nalini Dutt and one of his grandsons was Barun De.
He was assistant magistrate and collector of Shahabad, Bengal in 1881. He served as the district magistrate and collector of Khulna. He became the magistrate and collector of Balasore in Orissa and then of Malda and Hooghly. He was an acting commissioner of the Burdwan Division.
As the district officer of Hooghly, he started the Duke Club there which was meant to be exclusively for Indians. One of his Commissioners once told him not to entertain the thought of wanting to join a British club in the district.
After retirement he remained actively involved in the work of the Calcutta Improvement Trust.
In his post-retirement years he served as a vice-president of the council of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta.
He translated and edited, in two volumes, Nizamuddin Ahmad's Tabaqat-i-Akbari. The third volume, which he had left fully prepared, was published posthumously by Beni Prasad.
He was also the translator of Kalidas's 'Vikramarvasi' and 'Manichudabadana' from Sanskrit to English.
In 2001, approximately 2,000 photographs of himself and his family members were given in loan to the photographic archives of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Later, when the archive was shifted to the newly established Jadunath Sarkar Centre for Historical Research, CSSSC, Calcutta, the photographs too were deposited at 'Jadunath Bhavan', where the new Centre is located.
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