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List of people from West Bengal

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This is a list of notable people from West Bengal, India. This list does not include the significant number of prominent East Bengali refugees from East Bengal who settled in West Bengal after the partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947.

Literature

Major figures

Children's story writers

Medieval Bengal literary scene

Other authors from early modern period

Prominent foreign-language authors from Bengal

Other authors from early/mid-twentieth century and some contemporary authors

Journalists

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Language/linguistics, anthropology, history, and other social sciences

  • Haricharan Bandopadhayaya, lexicographer
  • Rajshekhar Basu, major contributor for scientific terms in Bengali and lexicographer
  • Girindrasekhar Bose, first non-European correspondent of Freud
  • Nirmal Kumar Bose, anthropologist, associate of Gandhi
  • Suniti Kumar Chatterji, linguist
  • Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya, social philosopher
  • Kirti N. Chaudhuri, historian
  • Pramatha Chaudhuri, creator of modern Bengali prose (chalit bhasha) along with Tagore
  • Harinath De, linguist
  • Romesh Chunder Dutt, historian
  • Anil Kumar Gain, fellow of the Royal Society
  • Biraja Sankar Guha, anthropologist
  • Ranajit Guha, subaltern theorist
  • R. C. Majumdar, historian
  • Vina Mazumdar, women's studies academic
  • Rajendralal Mitra, first Indian to work with Indologists
  • Bhudev Mukhopadhyay, earliest educationist
  • Niharranjan Ray, historian
  • Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri, Indian historian
  • Tapan Raychaudhuri, professor of history at Oxford University
  • Raja Ram Mohan Roy, first Bengali prose writer
  • Jadunath Sarkar, historian
  • Sumit Sarkar, historian
  • Susobhan Sarkar, historian
  • Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize awardee in Economics
  • Dinesh Chandra Sen, historian of Bengali literature and folklorist
  • Sukumar Sen, lingu
    Biography of famous personality of kolkata


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    • 15 Famous Indian Personalities and their Autobiographies

    Biographies of famous personalities are always a source of Inspiration. The biographies will tell you about the controversies, the dark sides of a person that you may have never heard of. Some people write biographies to clear up the myths about them while others invite criticism. Here's a list of the life stories of the prominent people that you must read. 

    1- The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

    In 1940, Father of Nation, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi wrote his autobiography 'The Story of My Experiments with Truth' where he covered his life from childhood days to 1921. In 1998, a committee of global spiritual and religious authorities designated it as one of the "100 Best Spiritual Books of the 20th Century". 

    Sonia Gandhi Biography: Early Life, Education, Political Career, Net Worth, Recognitions and more

    2- An Autobiography by Jawaharlal Nehru

    In 1936, Jawaharlal Nehru published an autobiographical book 'An Autobiography' which is also known as 'Toward Freedom'. The book is written in prison (1934-1935) before Nehru became the first Prime Minister of India.

    3- Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

    In 1946, Indian Yogi and Guru, Paramahansa Yogananda published his autobiographical book 'Autobiography of a Yogi'.

    4- Atmakatha (Malayalam) by Anna Chandy

    In 1973, the first female High Cout judge of India, Anna Chandy published her autobiography 'Atmakatha' in the Malayalam language. 

    5- Waiting for a Visa by B. R. Ambedkar 

    During 1935-36, Indian jurist, economist, politician and social reformer, B.R. Ambedkar wrote a 20-page autobiography in his own handwriting about his experiences with untouchability. It is currently used in Columbia University as a textbook. 

    6- All from Memory by B. V. Acharya 

    In 2014, Justice B.V. Acharya published his autobiography 'All from Memory' where he recalls his childh

    Eminent Personalities

    Freedom Fighters

    Mangal Pandey

    Indian soldier whose attack on British officers on March 29, 1857, was the first major incident of what came to be known as the Indian, or Sepoy, Mutiny. The man called to be the leader of our freedom started in 1857 i.e., the "Sepoy Mutiny". He was a legendary martyr.

     

    Surendranath Bandyopadhyay (1848-1925)

    "A pilgrim of freedom battle. As Ashoke and Akbar dreamt, the Indian National Congress achieved through Surendranath" - described by Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose. A patriot, scholar and orator. Mahatma Gandhi said, "He as ever be remembered as one of the makers of modern India".

     

    Satish Chandra Dasgupta

    A Gandhian and very close associate of Mahatma Gandhi. Founder of Khadi Prathistan (1925) at Sodepur and associate with Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray and Bengal Chemical. Mahatma Gandhi used to describe this institution as his second home and visited here on number of times. Gandhi rushed to Noakhali from this place in 1946 during riot with an eye to relief and restoration of peace. Netaji came here in 1939 for a political meet. This institution is unique for generating cottage and small-scale industries with special attention to 'Khadi'. Sri Das Gupta started publishing a magazine named 'Rastrabani' in both Bengali & English. He wrote some valuable books on Gandhi.

    Literature

    Kabiranjan Ramprasad Sen (Halisahar 1720-1782)

    An aesthetic and lyricist of 'Sakta' religions faith. He was a 'Sava-Kabi' of Maharaja Krishna Chandra. A poet, sensitive about his time and his songs are to be heard in practically every rural Bengali home even to day. A part of his lyrics have been translated in French and English.

     

    Raygunakar Bharat Chandra (Born in 1706)

    A poet contemporary to Ramprasad Sen and a 'Savakabi' of Maharaja Krishna Chandra. His creation 'Bidya Sundar' is a subject of c

    Rabindranath Tagore

    Bengali poet, philosopher, writer and novelist (1861–1941)

    For the film, see Rabindranath Tagore (film).

    "Tagore" redirects here. For other uses, see Tagore (disambiguation).

    Rabindranath ThakurFRAS (Bengali:[roˈbindɾonatʰˈʈʰakuɾ]; anglicised as Rabindranath Tagore; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was an Indian Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of Gitanjali. In 1913, Tagore became the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; where his elegant prose and magical poetry were widely popular in the Indian subcontinent. He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Referred to as "the Bard of Bengal", Tagore was known by the sobriquetsGurudeb, Kobiguru, and Biswokobi.

    A Bengali Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Burdwan district and Jessore, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-year-old. At the age of sixteen, he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha ("Sun Lion"), which were seized upon by literary authorities as long-lost classics. By 1877 he graduated to his first short stories and dramas, published under his real name. As a humanist, universalist, internationalist, and ardent critic of nationalism, he denounced the British Raj and advocated independence from Britain. As an exponent of the Bengal Renaissance, he advanced a vast canon that comprised paintings, sketches and doodles,