List of alumni of Scottish Church College
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This list contains notable alumni of Scottish Church College, an undergraduate and postgraduate college affiliated with the University of Calcutta, India.
Social reformers and religious leaders
[edit]- Swami Vivekananda, Monk, philosopher, social reformer and founder of the Ramakrishna Mission.
- Rev. Lal Behari Dey, theologian of the Free Church of Scotland
- Brahmabandhav Upadhyay, theologian and preacher of New Dispensation Brahmoism, Protestantism, and Roman Catholicism
- Sitanath Tattwabhushan, theologian and former president of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj[1]
- Krishna Kumar Mitra, former president of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj[2]
- Paramahansa Yogananda, proponent of Kriya Yoga in the West and founder of the Self-Realization Fellowship
- A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, proponent of Gaudiya Vaishnavism and founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness[3][4]
- Rev. Aurobindo Nath Mukherjee, first Indian to serve as the bishop of Calcutta and as the Metropolitan bishop of India within the Church of India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon
- Swami Gambhirananda, former president of the Ramakrishna Mission[5]
- Mohanananda
Independence activists and politicians
[edit]- Subhas Chandra Bose, former president of the Indian National Congress, founder president of the All India Forward Bloc, co-founder of the Indian National Army and head of state, Provisional Government of Free India
- Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala, first democratically elected prime minister of Nepal[6]
- Amarendranath Chatterjee, revolutionary associated with Anushilan Samiti, and Jugantar
- Saroj Dutta, veteran communist leader, co-founder of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) and the Naxalite movement.
- Ambica Charan Mazumdar, former president of the Indian National Congress
- Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee, former president of the All India Hindu Mahasabha
- Gopinath Bordoloi, prominent freedom fighter, first chief minister of Assam[7]
- Prafulla Chandra Sen, former chief minister of West Bengal
- Yangmasho Shaiza, former chief minister of Manipur
- Brington Buhai Lyngdoh, former chief minister of Meghalaya
- S.C. Marak, former chief minister of Meghalaya
- S.C. Jamir, former chief minister of Nagaland, former governor of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa, and governor of Odisha
- Rishang Keishing, former chief minister of Manipur
- George Gilbert Swell, former deputy speaker of the Lok Sabha and former ambassador to Norway and Burma
- Birendra Narayan Chakraborty, former governor of Haryana
- Banwari Lal Joshi, former governor of Uttar Pradesh, Delhi,[8] Meghalaya[9] and Uttarakhand
- Ajit Kumar Panja, former minister of state for external affairs[10]
- Shawkat Ali Khan, a framer of the Constitution of Bangladesh[11]
Jurists
[edit]- Sir Gooroodas Banerjee, former judge at the Calcutta High Court
- Sudhi Ranjan Das, former Chief Justice of India
- Amal Kumar Sarkar, former Chief Justice of India[12]
- Subimal Chandra Roy, former judge of the Supreme Court of India[13]
- Sambhunath Banerjee, former judge of the Calcutta High Court
- Amarendra Nath Sen, former chief justice of the Calcutta High Court, and former judge of the Supreme Court of India[14]
- Samarendra Chandra Deb, former chief justice of the Calcutta High Court
- Anil Kumar Sen, former chief justice of the Calcutta High Court
- Anandamoy Bhattacharjee, former chief justice of the Sikkim, Calcutta and the Bombay High Courts[15]
- Ganendra Narayan Ray, former chief justice of the Gujarat High Court, and former judge of the Supreme Court of India[16]
- Umesh Chandra Banerjee, former chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court and former judge of the Supreme Court of India[17]
- Mukul Gopal Mukherjee, former chief justice of the Rajasthan High Court
- Shyamal Kumar Sen, former chief justice of the Allahabad High Court, and former governor of West Bengal
Scholars and academic administrators
[edit]- Chandramukhi Basu, one of the first female graduates of the British Empire, and the first female head of an undergraduate college in South Asia (as principal of Bethune College, Calcutta)[18]
- Sir Gooroodas Banerjee, first Indian vice chancellor of the University of Calcutta
- Sir Brajendra Nath Seal, first chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, former vice chancellor of the University of Mysore[19]
- Sir Jnan Chandra Ghosh, formerly director of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, founder-director of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and former vice chancellor of the University of Calcutta
- Tarak Nath Das, formerly professor of political science at Columbia University
- Sarat Chandra Roy, pioneering anthropologist, often regarded as the father of Indian ethnography, and as the first Indian anthropologist
- Biraja Sankar Guha, pioneering anthropologist, one of the first PhD recipients in anthropology in the world (Harvard University, 1924)[20] and founder-director of the Anthropological Survey of India[21]
- Nirmal Kumar Bose, eminent anthropologist and freedom fighter[22]
- Ramaprasad Chanda, anthropologist and archaeologist[23]
- Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri, formerly Carmichael Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture, University of Calcutta
- Kalidas Nag, historian, author and parliamentarian
- Kaliprasanna Vidyaratna, Sanskrit scholar, author and academician
- Tapan Raychaudhuri, ad hominem professor of Indian history and civilization and emeritus fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford
- Rabindra Kumar Das Gupta, formerly Tagore professor of Bengali literature, University of Delhi, and former director of the National Library of India
- Asima Chatterjee, first Indian woman to earn a doctorate in science, first female recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, and first female president of the Indian Science Congress[24]
- Animesh Chakravorty, recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in chemistry, formerly chair of the department of chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
- Sambhunath Banerjee, Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta, Ramendra Kumar Podder, and Santosh Bhattacharyya, former vice chancellors of the University of Calcutta
- Nityananda Saha, former vice chancellor of the University of Kalyani
- Purabi Roy, noted scholar, author and Netaji researcher
Performing arts, theater and cinema
[edit]- Sisir Bhaduri, noted playwright[25]
- Pankaj Mullick, Bollywood and Bengali cinema music director and composer
- Birendra Krishna Bhadra, broadcaster, playwright, and theater director
- Suchitra Mitra, Rabindra Sangeet exponent
- Manna Dey, Bollywood film music exponent[26][27]
- Mrinal Sen, internationally acclaimed art film director and cultural commentator[28][29]
- Buddhadeb Dasgupta, noted parallel cinema director and poet[30]
- Tarun Majumdar, film director. the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri.[31]
- Utpalendu Chakrabarty, film director and thespian
- Mithun Chakraborty, Bollywood action hero and social activist
- Shyamanand Jalan, thespian and theatre director[32]
- Kaushik Sen, noted theatre personality, director of Swapnasandhani theatre group
- Silajit Majumder, singer and actor
- Badal Sircar, dramatist[33]
- Rudraprasad Sengupta, eminent theatre personality, director of Nandikar theatre group and cultural critic
- Partha Pratim Chowdhury, film director and playwright
- Manoj Mitra, dramatist[34]
- Madhav Sharma, actor, comedian, theater director[35]
- Pulak Bandyopadhyay, lyricist and composer
- Puja Banerjee, actress
- Tridha Choudhury, actress
- Padmanabha Dasgupta, Screenplay Writer, actor.
- Sailajaranjan Majumdar, distinguished exponent and teacher of Rabindrasangeet.
- Anamika Saha, actress
Writers, poets and journalists
[edit]- Dhan Gopal Mukerji, socio-cultural critic and first successful Indian man of letters in the United States of America; winner of Newbery Medal (1928)
- Nirad C. Chaudhuri, polymath, historian and commentator on culture, and Commander of the Order of the British Empire[36]
- Dipendranath Bandyopadhyay, author[37]
- Ajit Kumar Chakravarty, translator and critic[38]
- Satyendranath Dutta, poet[39]
- Sudhindranath Dutta, author and poet[40][41]
- Ashok Kumar Sarkar, former editor of Desh literary magazine and editor-in-chief of the Anandabazar Patrika (1958–1983)
- Lakshminath Bezbaroa, writer, editor and social critic
- Parvati Prasad Baruwa, litterateur[42]
- Premendra Mitra, novelist, short story and science fiction writer, and film director
- Subhas Mukhopadhyay, poet[43]
- Samaresh Majumdar, novelist
- Sajanikanta Das, critic, poet and editor of Shanibarer Chithi
- Sanjib Chattopadhyay, journalist, author and critic
- Bani Basu, essayist, novelist, and poet[44][45][46]
- Kanhaiyalal Sethia, poet
- Kali Nath Roy, editor in chief of The Tribune magazine
- Farrukh Ahmed, poet, writer, activist of the Language Movement
- Derek O'Brien, quiz-master and author
- Bina Sarkar Ellias, poet, fiction writer, art curator & founder-editor and publisher of International Gallerie, a global arts and ideas magazine[47]
- Mustafa Manwar, artist and media personality[48]
- Madhu Rye, playwright, novelist and short story writer
Administrators and organization leaders
[edit]- Binay Ranjan Sen, former director general of the Food and Agriculture Organization (1956–1967)
- Nitish Chandra Laharry, first Indian (and Asian) president of Rotary International (1962–63)
- Jagmohan Dalmiya, former president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India and the first Indian chairman of the International Cricket Council[49]
- Mani Lal Bhaumik, scientist (laser technology) turned entrepreneur, inventor of the excimer laser and author[50][51]
- Diptendu Pramanick, first secretary of the Eastern India Motion Pictures Association, and secretary of the Film Federation of India (1953–54)
- Evelyn Norah Shullai, pioneer of the Girl Guides Movement in India[52]
Sportspersons
[edit]- Gourgopal Ghosh, football player for the Mohun Bagan club and mathematician[53]
- Dharma Bhakta Mathema, bodybuilder, political activist and anti-royalist martyr in the Kingdom of Nepal[54][55]
- Surya Shekhar Ganguly, chess grandmaster[56][57] and national champion[58]
- Sreerupa Bose, former member, India national women's cricket team
Industrialists, businessmen and philanthropists
[edit]- Rameshwarlall Daulatram Nopany - founder of Nopany group based in Calcutta and a philanthropist
- Samson H. Chowdhury - Industrialist
References
[edit]- ^ From the Brahmo Samaj website
- ^ Mohanta, Sambaru Chandra (2012). "Mitra, Krishna Kumar". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
- ^ Entertainment Homepage Archived 17 July 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Ghosh, Monoranjan (2012). "International Society for Krishna Consciousness". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
- ^ Reflections around Swami Gambhirananda
- ^ Bisheshwor Prasad Koirala Archived 11 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Gopinath Bordoloi
- ^ 'Big cities have big problems'
- ^ B L Joshi sworn-in as new Meghalaya Governor
- ^ Panja, Ajit Kumar
- ^ "Shawkat Ali passes away". The Daily Star. 1 July 2006.
- ^ Justice Amal Kumar Sarkar
- ^ Justice Subimal Chandra Roy
- ^ Justice Amarendra Nath Sen Archived 15 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Justice Anandamoy Bhattacharjee
- ^ Hon'ble Mr. Justice G.N. Ray
- ^ Justice Umesh Chandra Banerjee Archived 28 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Sen, Asit and John Abraham (2009-12-22). "Glimpses of college history, 2008 (1980)" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2009-12-22. Retrieved 2009-03-10.
- ^ Roy, Pradip Kumar (2012). "Seal, Brajendra Nath". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
- ^ AnthroSource: Error
- ^ "Guha family wiki". Guha.pbwiki.com. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
- ^ Nirmal Kumar Bose – Scholar wanderer
- ^ Chowdhury, Saifuddin (2012). "Chanda, Ramaprasad". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
- ^ Chemistry alumni, Scottish Church College Archived 6 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Mohanta, Sambaru Chandra (2012). "Bhaduri, Shishir Kumar". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
- ^ Padmabhusan Manna
- ^ "A Cultural Colossus". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 19 June 2007.
- ^ Chasing the Truth: The Films of Mrinal Sen
- ^ Sen, Mrinal
- ^ Merchant of Dreams
- ^ 175th Year Commemoration Volume. Scottish Church College. April 2008. p. 591. OCLC 243677369.
Tarun Majumdar (Film personality)
- ^ "Eminent theatre actor Shyamanand Jalan dead". The Times of India. 25 May 2010.
- ^ Mustard memories
- ^ Campus Buzz
- ^ A tale of two cities
- ^ Vita of Nirad Chaudhuri
- ^ 175th Year Commemoration Volume. Scottish Church College. April 2008. p. 588. OCLC 243677369.
Dipendra Nath Bandyopadhyay (Novelist)
- ^ Islam, Muhammad Saiful. "Chakravarty, Ajit Kumar". Banglapedia.
- ^ Harun-or-Rashid, Md (2012). "Dutta, Satyendranath". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
- ^ Guha, Bimal (2012). "Dutta, Sudhindranath". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
- ^ Sudhindranath Dutta (1901–1960)
- ^ Parvati Prasad Baruva Archived 23 January 2013 at archive.today
- ^ "People's poet of Bengal-Subhas Mukhopadhyay" Archived 8 July 2006 at the Wayback Machine By Dr Ashok K Choudhury
- ^ Bani Basu Archived 18 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Stranger than fiction[usurped]
- ^ Meenakshi Mukherjee: Bani Basu's Novels Archived 24 November 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Gallerie
- ^ Mustafa Monwar: A legend of our times Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jagmohan Dalmiya: Cricket's face of change
- ^ Code Name Success
- ^ Photo News
- ^ Adventure of knowledge – Evelyn Norah Shullai
- ^ Gourgopal Ghosh (1893–1940)
- ^ fitnessNEPAL.com (fitnessNEPAL/History) Archived 3 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Encounter with a martyr's daughter" By Sudha Shrestha
- ^ 'Unexpected' finish by Surya Sekhar
- ^ Ganguly, Surya Shekhar Archived 14 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Indian National Championship won by Surya Ganguly
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