Surajit Chandra Sinha

Surajit Chandra Sinha
Prof. Surajit Sinha working at his home in Shantiniketan.
Born	1926 Susang, Bengal, British India
Died	27 February 2002 Santiniketan, West Bengal, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Anthropologist, administrator
Spouse(s)	Purnima Sinha (nee Sengupta)
Relatives	Mani Sinha (paternal uncle) Purba Dam (sister)

Mani Sinha (paternal uncle)

Surajit Chandra Sinha (1926–27 February, 2002) was born in Durgapur Upazila, of Netrokona District, in Mymensingh Division, then in Bengal and now in Bangladesh. He was an Indian anthropologist.

He was the eldest son of Maharaja Bhupendra Chandra Sinha of Susang, a student of Presidency College, Calcutta and a well-known landscape painter. His mother was a daughter of Jogendranath Moitra, the zamindar of Sithlai in Pabna District. Her family could trace their origins to the reign of Emperor Jahangir. Sinha's youngest sister is Purba Dam, the eminent exponent of Rabindrasangeet.

A close paternal uncle, Maharajkumar Mani Singh was a well-known Communist Party leader who wrote Jiban Sangram. and was later elected head of the communist party of East Pakistan. In his youth he followed in the footsteps of this paternal uncle. His maternal uncle was Kumar Jyotirindra Moitra (popularly called "Botukda"), an eminent exponent of Rabindrasangeet, of the Sithlai family and who later wrote the school anthem for Patha Bhavan, Kolkata.

Sinha was married to Dr. Purnima Sinha, a physicist, author and music scholar, who was the daughter of the eminent legal scholar and Bengali novelist, Dr. Nares Chandra Sen-Gupta.

In the colonial period, his father's official status was third in in the Government House of Calcutta after Coochbehar and the Burdwan. The Maharajas of Susang (a hill estate), were the most influential "zamindars" of Mymensingh division. The other major zamindars of the same division were the Maharajas of Muktagacha, who in spite of being the richest zamindars in the division, considered the chiefs of Susanga to be their chiefs.