Subodh Chandra Sengupta

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Subodh Chandra Sengupta
Born27 June 1903
Banari,
British India
Died3 December 1998
Kolkata West Bengal, India
Occupation(s)Academic
Scholar
Writer
Years active1929–1998
Known forShakesperean literature
Parent(s)Hemchandra Sengupta (Father)
Mrinalini Debi (Mother)
AwardsPadma Bhushan

Subodh Chandra Sengupta (27 June 1903 – 3 December 1998) was an Indian scholar, academic and critic of English literature,

Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, an autonomous college in Greater Calcutta under the University of Calcutta.[8] The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 1983, for his contributions to literature and education.[9]

Biography

Subodh Chandra Sengupta was born in 1903 in

Ramakrishna Mission Residential College for a while.[8]

Sengupta published five books on Shakespeare, The whirlgig of Time: The problem of Duration in Shakespeare's Plays (1961),

Indian freedom movement,[20]
and two translations, Dhvanyaloka, a commentary on aesthetics by Anandavardhana translated into Bengali by Sengupta,[21] and Mahatma Gandhi, As I Saw Him, a critical account of the life of
Mohandas KaramChand Gandhi written by Prafulla Chandra Ghosh and translated by Sengupta.[22] He also assisted in the publication of a dictionary, Samsad Bengali-English Dictionary[23] and edited the annual publications of Presidency College Alumni Association.[24]

Sengupta, who was honored by the Government of India with the civilian award of the Padma Bhushan in 1983,[9] died in 1998, at the age of 95.[25] Several writers have recorded their indebtedness to Sengupta in their works.[26][27] The story of his life has been documented in a work, Professor Subodh Chandra Sen Gupta: Scholar Extraordinary,[28] published by the foundation bearing his name.[29]

Selected bibliography

  • Subodh Chandra Sen Gupta (1936). The art of Bernard Shaw. Folcroft Library Editions.
    ISBN 9780841444393
    .
  • Subodhchandra Sengupta (1 January 1996). Bankimchandra Chatterjee. Sahitya Akademi Publications.
    ISBN 978-81-260-0001-2
    .
  • Subodh Chandra Sen Gupta (1975). Saratchandra: Man and Artist. Sahitya Akademi.
  • S. C. Sengupta (1948). The Great Sentinel: A Study of Rabindranath Tagore. Mukherjee.
  • S. C. Sengupta (1950). Shakespearian Comedy. Oxford University Press. p. 287.
    OCLC 6476690
    .
  • S. C. Sengupta (1959). Towards a Theory of Imagination. Oxford University Press. p. 315.
    ASIN B0007J1C6U
    .
  • S. C. Sengupta (1961). The whirlgig of Time: The problem of Duration in Shakespeare's Plays. Orient Longmans. p. 201.
    OCLC 1940902
    .
  • Subodh Chandra SenGupta (1966). Shakespeare's Historical Plays. Oxford University Press.
    ISBN 9780198116219
    .
  • Prafulla Chandra Ghosh (1968). Mahatma Gandhi: As I Saw Him. Translated by S. C. Sengupta. S. Chand & Company.
  • S. C. Sengupta (1972). Aspects of Shakespearian Tragedy. Oxford University Press. p. 176.
    OCLC 832557
    .
  • S. C. Sengupta (1977). A Shakespeare Manual. Oxford University Press. pp. 157.
    ISBN 9780195609530
    .
  • Subodh Chandra Sen Gupta (1982). India wrests freedom. Sahitya Samsad.
  • Sailendra Biswas; Birendramohan Dasgupta; S C Sen Gupta (1982). Samsad Bengali-English dictionary. Calcutta Sahitya Samsad. p. 932.
    OCLC 9418239
    .

See also

References

  1. ^ Somesh (November 2000). "Shyam Prasad – A Hindutva British Stooge". People's March. 1 (9).
  2. ^ "Pedagogy: the academic Shakespeare". Internet Shakespeare Editions. 2016. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  3. OCLC 832557
    .
  4. OCLC 6476690
    .
  5. ISBN 9780198116219
    .
  6. ISBN 978-81-86017-40-1
    .
  7. ^ "Department of English Language & Literature". Jadavpur University, Calcutta. 2016. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  8. ^ a b "English". Ramakrishna Mission Residential College. 2016. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  9. ^ a b "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  10. ISBN 978-81-260-1221-3
    .
  11. ^ "The Coming on its Own". University of Vermont. 2016. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  12. ISBN 978-1-4438-6353-7
    .
  13. OCLC 1940902
    .
  14. ISBN 9780195609530
    .
  15. ISBN 9780841444393
    .
  16. ^ S. C. Sengupta (1948). The Great Sentinel: A Study of Rabindranath Tagore. Mukherjee.
  17. ^ Subodh Chandra Sen Gupta (1975). Saratchandra: Man and Artist. Sahitya Akademi.
  18. ISBN 978-81-260-0001-2
    .
  19. ASIN B0007J1C6U
    .
  20. ^ Subodh Chandra Sen Gupta (1982). India wrests freedom. Sahitya Samsad.
  21. ISBN 978-81-7211-233-2
    .
  22. ^ Prafulla Chandra Ghosh (1968). Mahatma Gandhi: As I Saw Him. S. Chand & Company.
  23. OCLC 9418239
    .
  24. ^ "List of Annual Publications". Presidency College Alumni Association. 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
  25. ^ "Sen Gupta, S. C. (Subodh Chandra) 1903-1998". WorldCat. 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
  26. ISBN 978-81-269-0002-2
    .
  27. ISBN 978-1-4490-5569-1
    .
  28. ^ Sen Gupta Sen Gupta; Subodh Chandra Sen Gupta (2000). Professor Subodh Chandra Sen Gupta: Scholar Extraordinary. Subodh Chandra Sengupta Foundation.
  29. ^ "Subodh Chandra Sengupta Foundation". Open Library. 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2016.

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