SUKUMAR SEN

(1900-1992)Sen was born in 1900. Their original home was at Gotan,under Raina P.S.near Shyamsundar in the district of Bardhaman. He got his education from Burdwan Municipal High School and got divisional scholarship in Matriculation examination in 1917. He passed F.A. from Burdwan Raj College then affiliated with the University of Calcutta, and earned his first class honours mark in Sanskrit. Then he studied comparative philology in Kolkata in which he got highest record marks. Linguist Suniti Kumar Chatterji and Taraporewala were his teachers there. Thereafter he received the prestigious Premchand Roychand Scholarship and PhD degree. The London Asiatic Society honoured him with a gold medal. He published numerous important and valuable articles and research papers during his long academic career. 'Diner pore din je Gelo'(The Days pass by)published by Ananda Publishers,Calcutta is the title of his famous autobiography. Recently a college named after him has been founded in his native village Gotan to perpetuate his memory

Vishnu Pala's Manasa Mangala edited by Sukumar Sen is another of his work. The legend of Manasa, the snake Goddess, became a popular literary theme in Bengal from the 16th century with local and regional variations. The present edition of Vishnu Pala's Manasa Mangala was prepared by Prof. Sukumar Sen for the Bibliotheca Indica on the basis of the Asiatic Society manuscript no. 4993 (government collection). The interesting point is that the manuscript prepared from that were used by the singers who came from the common people; it was written sometimes between 1775 and 1825. Despite the late character of it, its linguistic importance cannot be gainsaid. Apart from that, it is a sample of folk treatment of Mangal poetry. Hence it is also of some interest to folklorists.
He showed gradual emergence of the Bengali language from Prakrit and Apabhramsa. At the beginning, devotional and lyric songs and mystical poetry, followed by narrative poetry, can be found. Gradually literary prose develops, and drama, as well as fiction. Sen gives many details about past writers and a broad sweep of the progress of the Bengali language, especially in its development during more or less recent times when it was reacting to Western influences
was a Bengali linguist. He had also vast knowledge in Pāli, Prakrit and Sanskrit. He wrote the book History of Bengali literature.

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Name	Sen, Sukumar
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Date of birth	1900
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Date of death	1992
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BANGLA SAHITTER ITHIHAS-RABINDRANATH