List of Kolkata Presidencians

The following is a list of notable people associated with the old Presidency College, Calcutta.

Academics

Abhijit Banerjee, professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2019
Abhijit Basu, professor of geology, Indiana University Bloomington
Joyoti Basu, cell biologist, N-Bios laureate^[1]
Ratan Lal Basu, Specialist in ancient economics and Indologist
Birendra Bijoy Biswas, Botanist and molecular biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
Barun De, Former Chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission and Founder-Director, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.^[2]
Jitendra Nath Mohanty, philosopher, former president of the Indian Philosophical Congress
Sankar Das Sarma, eminent theoretical condensed matter physicist and Richard E Prange Chaired Professor at University of Maryland, US^[3]
Amartya Sen, Master, Trinity College, Cambridge (1998–2004); winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1998^[4]
Ashoke Sen, professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore, winner of Dirac Medal in 2014
Surajit Chandra Sinha, former Vice Chancellor, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan; Maharajkumar of Susanga, Bengal^[5]
Sourindra Mohan Sircar, one of the greatest botanist of India. Was appointed the General President of ISCA
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic, holder of University Professor at Columbia University

Actors and Film Makers

Chhabi Biswas, Actor
Dhritiman Chatterjee, Actor
Ritwik Ghatak, Film Maker
Pritish Nandy, Film Maker
Satyajit Ray, Film Maker
Bikash Roy, Actor
Aparna Sen, Actor, Film Maker

Administration

Gurusaday Dutt, ICS, Secretary, Local Self Government and Public Health Secretary, Government of Bengal^[6]

Faculty Members

Dipak Banerjee, former Head of the Department of Economics of Presidency College, Kolkata^[7]

Judiciary

Sir Sarat Kumar Ghosh, I.C.S, Chief Justice of Jaipur and Kashmir.^[8]

Politics

Subhas Chandra Bose, Freedom Fighter, Commander of INA, First Leader of Free Indian Territory, Mayor of Calcutta; 53rd President of the Indian National Congress; founder of the Forward Bloc;^[9]
Syama Prasad Mukherjee, founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh; Industry and Supply Member, Government of India (1946–50)
Bidhan Chandra Roy, 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal (1948–1962); 5th Mayor of Kolkata (1931–1933)
Ajoy Mukherjee, 4th Chief Minister of West Bengal (1 March 1967 – 21 November 1967)^[10]
Siddhartha Shankar Ray, 5th Chief Minister of West Bengal (1972–77); Education Minister, Government of India; Governor of Punjab; Ambassador to U.S.A.
Jyoti Basu, 6th Chief Minister of West Bengal (1977-2000)
Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, 7th Chief Minister of West Bengal (2000–11)
Ashim Chatterjee, Communist Revolutionary^[11]
Bishnu Ram Medhi, Chief Minister of Assam (1950–57)^[12]^[13]
MJ Akbar, Minister of State for External Affairs, Government of India (2016–2018)^[14]
Abdus Salam Khan, Minister of Public Works and Communication (1955–1956) in the East Pakistan provincial cabinet^[15]
Md. Hafizur Rahman, Minister of Food and Agriculture of Pakistan (1958–1960); Minister of Commerce of Pakistan (1960–1962); Provincial Minister of Finance and Planning of East Pakistan (1962–1965)
Amit Mitra, Finance Minister of West Bengal (2011–21)
Maharajadhiraja Sir Uday Chand Mahtab, Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly (1937–52), Member, Indian Constituent Assembly, 1946-47 & Maharajadhiraja Bahadur of Burdwan.^[16]
Colonel H.H. Maharaja Nripendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur of Coochbehar^[17]
Raja Narasingha Malla Deb, OBE, MP, of Jhargram Raj

Religious leader

Swami Vivekananda, the great Nationalist Indian Hindu monk, a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian teacher Ramakrishna, key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world and is credited with raising interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century and founded the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission.

Sports

Vece Paes, Indian Hockey Player, studied Pre-Medical at Presidency College, Calcutta during 1964-65

Writers

Manik Bandyopadhyay, Fiction Author
Rajshekhar Basu, Fiction Author
Ratan Lal Basu, Fiction Author
Shakti Chattopadhyay, Poet
Henry Louis Vivan Derozio, poet^[18]
Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Poet, Dramatist
Sankha Ghosh, Poet
Binoy Majumdar, Poet
Pritish Nandy, Poet
Satyajit Ray, Fiction Author

References

^ "Indian fellow - Joyoti Basu". Indian National Science Academy. 6 December 2017. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
^ Lives Less Forgotten: Barun De
^ "Prod to be the best". www.telegraphindia.com. Archived from the original on 3 July 2015.
^ Encyclopædia Britannica Online: Amartya Sen
^ Indian Princely States: Susanga
^ Lives Less Forgotten: Gurusaday Dutt
^ Bio
^ Lives Less Forgotten: Sir Sarat Kumar Ghosh
^ ; President, Indian National Congress- 1938, 1939 (resigned), founded the Indian National Army (The Azad Hind Fauz); revered across the nation as 'Netaji' (Encyclopædia Britannica Online: * * Subhas Chandra Bose)
^ Arild Engelsen Ruud: “Land and Power: The Marxist Conquest of Rural Bengal”; Modern Asian Studies; Vol. 28, No. 2 (May, 1994), pp. 357-380; Cambridge University Press
^ অসীম চট্টোপাধ্যায় (Asim Chattopadhyay) (2022): নকশালবাড়ি নামা (Nakshalbari Nama), Ananda Publishers, Kolkata
^ Assam Legislative Assembly
^ Eminent Personalities Archived 10 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^ "MEA | About MEA : Organization Structure : Ministers".
^ Karim, ASM Enayet (2012). "Khan, Abdus Salam". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
^ Indian Princely States: Burdwan
^ Indian Princely States: Coochbehar
^ Black, Joseph; Conolly, Leonard; Flint, Kate; Grundy, Isobel; Lepan, Don; Liuzza, Roy; McGann, Jerome J.; Prescott, Anne Lake; Qualls, Barry V.; Waters, Claire, eds. (4 December 2014). "Henry Louis Vivian Derozio". The Broadview anthology of British literature (Third ed.). Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. ISBN 978-1-55481-202-8. OCLC 894141161.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[Indian_fellow_-_Joyoti_Basu-1] "Indian fellow - Joyoti Basu". Indian National Science Academy. 6 December 2017. Retrieved 6 December 2017.

[wbhc-2] Lives Less Forgotten: Barun De

[3] "Prod to be the best". www.telegraphindia.com. Archived from the original on 3 July 2015.

[amartyaseninencyclopaediabritannica-4] Encyclopædia Britannica Online: Amartya Sen

[indianprincelystates:susanga-5] Indian Princely States: Susanga

[icsexe-6] Lives Less Forgotten: Gurusaday Dutt

[7] Bio

[icsjud-8] Lives Less Forgotten: Sir Sarat Kumar Ghosh

[subhaschandraboseinencyclopaediabritannica-9] ; President, Indian National Congress- 1938, 1939 (resigned), founded the Indian National Army (The Azad Hind Fauz); revered across the nation as 'Netaji' (Encyclopædia Britannica Online: * * Subhas Chandra Bose)

[10] Arild Engelsen Ruud: “Land and Power: The Marxist Conquest of Rural Bengal”; Modern Asian Studies; Vol. 28, No. 2 (May, 1994), pp. 357-380; Cambridge University Press

[11] অসীম চট্টোপাধ্যায় (Asim Chattopadhyay) (2022): নকশালবাড়ি নামা (Nakshalbari Nama), Ananda Publishers, Kolkata

[assamlegislativeassembly-12] Assam Legislative Assembly

[13] Eminent Personalities Archived 10 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine

[14] "MEA | About MEA : Organization Structure : Ministers".

[15] Karim, ASM Enayet (2012). "Khan, Abdus Salam". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.

[burdwan-16] Indian Princely States: Burdwan

[coochbehar-17] Indian Princely States: Coochbehar

[Broadview-18] Black, Joseph; Conolly, Leonard; Flint, Kate; Grundy, Isobel; Lepan, Don; Liuzza, Roy; McGann, Jerome J.; Prescott, Anne Lake; Qualls, Barry V.; Waters, Claire, eds. (4 December 2014). "Henry Louis Vivian Derozio". The Broadview anthology of British literature (Third ed.). Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. ISBN 978-1-55481-202-8. OCLC 894141161.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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