Surendranath Dasgupta

Surendranath Dasgupta
Surendranath Dasgupta
Native name	সুরেন্দ্রনাথ দাশগুপ্ত
Born	October 1887 Kushtia, Nadia, Bengal, British India
Died	18 December 1952 (aged 65) Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Nationality	India
Occupation	Professor
Spouse(s)	Himani Devi
Children	Maitreyi Sen Chitrita Gupta Sumitra Majumdar Subhayu Dasgupta Sugata Dasgupta Subhachari Dasgupta

Surendranath Dasgupta (Bengali: সুরেন্দ্রনাথ দাশগুপ্ত) (October 1887 – 18 December 1952) was a scholar of Sanskrit and philosophy.

Dasgupta was born in Kushtia, Bengal (now in Bangladesh)in a Vaidya family. His ancestral home was in the village Goila in Barisal District. He studied in Ripon College Calcutta and graduated with honours in Sanskrit. Later, he received his master's degree from Sanskrit College, Calcutta in 1908. He got a second master's degree in Western Philosophy in 1910 from the University of Calcutta.

Prof. Dasgupta married Himani Devi, a beautiful lady and the younger sister of India's pioneer film director and founder of Bombay Talkies Himanshu Rai [Ray]and had six children with her. Dasgupta had three daughters Maitreyi Devi (Sen) (1914-1989), Chitrita Devi (Gupta) and Sumitra Majumdar. Maitreyi Devi and Chitrita Devi (Gupta) were also famous writers. His sons Subhayu Dasgupta, Sugata Dasgupta and Prof. Subhachari Dasgupta also left behind valuable works in nation building. Subhayu Dasgupta wrote the famous book "Hindu Ethos and the Challenge of Change", while Sugata Dasgupta was a featured speaker and a noted Gandhian and author of several books, while his youngest son, Subhachari Dasgupta, erstwhile professor at the National Institute for Bank Management (NIBM) and author of several books like "Understanding Social Reality", "The rural energy crisis, poverty, and women's roles in five Indian villages" , "Forest, ecology, and the oppressed, Dynamics of change in Karimuddinpur ; Land reforms in West Bengal and Karnataka ; Towards alternative banking ; A study into the Proshika process  ; Acculturation of the child to schooling; Impact of the employment guarantee scheme in Maharashtra on disadvantaged groups ; developed civil society leaders in India for three decades through the People's Institute for Development and Training.(www.peoplesinstitute,com) .