Mahendralal Sarkar
Mahendralal Sarkar | |
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Calcutta , India | |
Occupation(s) | Physician, academic |
Spouse | Rajkumari |
Mahendralal Sarkar
Early life and education
Mahendralal Sarkar was born at Paikpara village in
At Calcutta Medical College he was so esteemed by his professors that in the second year of his course he was invited by them to deliver a series of lectures on
Career
Although educated in the traditional European system of medicine, Mahendralal Sarkar later turned to
In the course of his career, he treated several notable persons of those days, including the author
and others.Activism and reforms
Mahendralal Sarkar started a campaign with the motto of reconstructing colonial India in 1867 for a national science association. He planned for an association that would be funded, run, and managed by native Indians, with the aim of turning out a pool of scientists for national reconstruction.
Sarkar supported women's education in nineteenth-century India, when higher education among women was rare. For example, he was a supporter of
Awards and honours
He was a fellow of Calcutta University and an honorary magistrate and Sheriff of Calcutta (1887). He was made a CIE in 1883 and honoured with an honorary doctorate degree by University of Calcutta in 1898.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d Palit, Chittabrata (2012). "Sircir, Mahendralal". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
- ^ Arun Kumar Biswas. Gleanings of the past and the science movement : in the diaries of Drs. Mahendralal and Amritalal Sircar, Calcutta : The Asiatic Society, 2000; see also Collected works of Mahendralal Sircar, Eugène Lafont, and science movement, 1860–1910, Kolkata : Asiatic Society, 2003
- ^ Dr. Mahendralal Sircar – Frank Parlato Jr. Vivekananda.net. Retrieved on 12 November 2018.
- Ramtanu Lahiri O Tatkalin Banga Samaj, 1903/2001, (in Bengali), pp. 170–176, New Age Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
- ^ ISBN 81-85626-65-0
- ISBN 81-8056-573-4.
- ^ IACSCC. "Introduction(About) of IACS". www.iacs.res.in. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
- ^ a b Palit, Chittabrata (2012). "Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
- ^ Arun K. Biswas, Father Eugene Lafont and the contemporary Science movement, Kolkata, The Asiatic Society, 2001, pp.45ff
- ISBN 81-250-0843-8.