Nilratan Sircar
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| Born |
Nilratan Sircar 1 October 1861 Netra |
| Died | 18 May 1943 (aged 81) Giridih, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Campbell Medical College |
Sir Nilratan Sircar (1 October 1861 – 18 May 1943) was an eminent Indian doctor, educationist, philanthropist and swadeshi entrepreneur.
Sircar was born on 1 October 1861 in Netra, near Diamond Harbour in the district of South 24 Parganas in Bengal. His father Nandalal Sircar came from a poor family of Jessore and later settled at Joynagar, Khulna. His maternal family belonged to Netra where he was born. However, as his mother often suffered from ill health, Sircar and his siblings spent much of their growing years with their maternal family in Netra and subsequently moved there. His mother died while he was still a child from what was later believed to be cancer. Sircar was reported to have shared with grandchildren that it was this early loss of his mother to an unknown disease that led him to study medicine, as he wanted to know the cause of her death.
Sircar passed the entrance examination from Chatra Nandalal Institution. Despite the family's modest means, Sircar moved to Calcutta to pursue his career in medicine. His efforts caught the attention of an Englishman who sponsored his study at the Campbell Medical College in the formative years from where he obtained vernacular diploma in medicine in 1879. Later, he went on to win a scholarship. He obtained the M.B. degree in 1888. Next year he earned his M.A. In 1890 he obtained the M.D. degrees from the University of Calcutta.
In 1888, Sircar married Nirmala, daughter of Girishchandra Mazumdar, a Brahmo missionary and became Brahmo. The couple went on to have six children, five daughters and one son.
Dr Sircar soon obtained a large practice and was for many years, a leading Indian consulting physician, travelling far and wide to treat some of his patients, who included the ruling heads of neighbouring countries.
Aside from his contribution to the field of medicine, Dr Sircar also contributed greatly to the cause of education, commerce and politics during his lifetime. He was directly or indirectly involved in foundation and administration of various national science institutes in Bengal.
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