Sisir Kumar Ghosh

Sisir Kumar Ghosh (1840–1911) was a noted Indian journalist, founder of the Amrita Bazar Patrika, a noted Bengali language newspaper in 1868[1][2] and a freedom fighter from Bengal. He was one of the founding members of the India League.[3] He was also a Vaishnavite, remembered for writings on mystic-saint Lord Chaitanya, and penning a book on him titled Lord Gauranga or Salvation for All in 1897.[4][5]

He was one of the first batch of students who passed in the first entrance examination of the Calcutta University in 1857.[6]

Sisir Ghose lived most of the time in Santiniketan, West Bengal, where he was a Professor of English, an authority on the writings of Rabindranath Tagore and a world-renowned scholar of mysticism.

References

  1. ↑ "JSTOR: Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 32, No. 4 (Jan. 25-31, 1997), pp. 141-144". Retrieved 2013-12-24.
  2. ↑ Raj Kumar (2003). Essays on Indian Renaissance. Discovery Publishing House. pp. 78–. ISBN 978-81-7141-689-9.
  3. ↑ Sen, Sailendra Nath (2010). An Advanced History of Modern India. Delhi: Macmillan India. p. 236.
  4. ↑ Haripada Adhikary (2012). Unifying Force of Hinduism: The Harekrsna Movement. AuthorHouse. pp. 131–. ISBN 978-1-4685-0393-7.
  5. ↑ http://www.lotusimprints.com/new/blog/category/mahatma-sisir-kumar-ghosh/
  6. ↑ Jitendra Nath Basu (1979). Romance of Indian Journalism. Calcutta University. p. 195.
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