List of alumni of Scottish Church College explained
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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]
- 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[46]
- Mustafa Manwar, artist and media personality[47]
- Madhu Rye, playwright, novelist and short story writer
Administrators and organization leaders
Sportspersons
Industrialists, businessmen and philanthropists
Notes and References
- http://www.thebrahmosamaj.org/impact/impact.html From the Brahmo Samaj website
- Book: Mohanta, Sambaru Chandra. Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. 2012. Islam. Sirajul. Sirajul Islam. Second. Mitra, Krishna Kumar. Jamal. Ahmed A.. http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Mitra,_Krishna_Kumar.
- http://www.krishna.com/main.php?id=7 Entertainment Homepage
- Book: Ghosh, Monoranjan. Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. 2012. Islam. Sirajul. Sirajul Islam. Second. International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Jamal. Ahmed A.. http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=International_Society_for_Krishna_Consciousness.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20050601073304/http://www.geocities.com/bibhasde/swami.html Reflections around Swami Gambhirananda
- http://www.spinybabbler.org/literature/personalities/bp_koirala.htm Bisheshwor Prasad Koirala
- https://archive.today/20080306105433/http://www.assam.org/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=90406&page_id=175 Gopinath Bordoloi
- http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/Cities/Delhi/Big_cities_have_big_problems/articleshow/msid-725169,curpg-2.cms 'Big cities have big problems'
- http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=365358&sid=REG&ssid= B L Joshi sworn-in as new Meghalaya Governor
- http://www.calcuttayellowpages.com/ajitpanja.html Panja, Ajit Kumar
- News: 1 July 2006. Shawkat Ali passes away. The Daily Star.
- http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/rcji/08aksarkar.htm Justice Amal Kumar Sarkar
- http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/27_scroy.htm Justice Subimal Chandra Roy
- http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/ansen.htm Justice Amarendra Nath Sen
- http://bombayhighcourt.nic.in/cjshow.php?auth=amdldGlkPTI4JnBhZ2Vubz0z Justice Anandamoy Bhattacharjee
- http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/78_gnray.htm Hon'ble Mr. Justice G.N. Ray
- http://saarclaw.org/getbio.php?mid=1055 Justice Umesh Chandra Banerjee
- Web site: Sen, Asit and John Abraham. 2009-12-22. Glimpses of college history, 2008 (1980). live. https://web.archive.org/web/20091222083113/http://scottishchurch.ac.in/College%20History02.pdf. 2009-12-22. 2009-03-10.
- Book: Roy, Pradip Kumar. Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. 2012. Islam. Sirajul. Sirajul Islam. Second. Seal, Brajendra Nath. Jamal. Ahmed A.. http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Seal,_Brajendra_Nath.
- http://www.anthrosource.net/doi/pdfplus/10.1525/aa.2002.104.2.551?cookieSet=1 AnthroSource: Error
- Web site: Guha family wiki. 14 July 2012. Guha.pbwiki.com.
- http://nlindia.org/exhib_nirmal.html Nirmal Kumar Bose – Scholar wanderer
- Book: Chowdhury, Saifuddin. Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. 2012. Islam. Sirajul. Sirajul Islam. Second. Chanda, Ramaprasad. Jamal. Ahmed A.. http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Chanda,_Ramaprasad.
- http://www.scotchem.org/alumni_frame_2.htm Chemistry alumni, Scottish Church College
- Book: Mohanta, Sambaru Chandra. Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. 2012. Islam. Sirajul. Sirajul Islam. Second. Bhaduri, Shishir Kumar. Jamal. Ahmed A.. http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Bhaduri,_Shishir_Kumar.
- http://www.mannadey.in/about_him.php Padmabhusan Manna
- Web site: A Cultural Colossus. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070927221509/http://www.screenindia.com/fullstory.php?content_id=10431. 27 September 2007. 19 June 2007.
- http://www.filmref.com/journal/archives/2005/08/ Chasing the Truth: The Films of Mrinal Sen
- http://rajyasabha.nic.in/kiosk/rsfinal3/whoswho/alpha_s7.htm Sen, Mrinal
- http://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080531/saturday/main1.htm Merchant of Dreams
- Book: 175th Year Commemoration Volume . Scottish Church College . April 2008 . 591 . 243677369 . Tarun Majumdar (Film personality).
- News: 25 May 2010. Eminent theatre actor Shyamanand Jalan dead. The Times of India.
- https://archive.today/20130203203340/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060805/asp/calcutta/story_6571527.asp Mustard memories
- https://archive.today/20130204164823/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050810/asp/careergraph/story_5093436.asp Campus Buzz
- https://archive.today/20130204193709/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040620/asp/look/story_3392067.asp A tale of two cities
- http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~naras/ncc/vita.html Vita of Nirad Chaudhuri
- Book: 175th Year Commemoration Volume . Scottish Church College . April 2008 . 588 . 243677369 . Dipendra Nath Bandyopadhyay (Novelist).
- Web site: Islam . Muhammad Saiful . Chakravarty, Ajit Kumar . Banglapedia.
- Book: Harun-or-Rashid, Md. Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. 2012. Islam. Sirajul. Sirajul Islam. Second. Dutta, Satyendranath. Jamal. Ahmed A.. http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Dutta,_Satyendranath.
- Book: Guha, Bimal. Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. 2012. Islam. Sirajul. Sirajul Islam. Second. Dutta, Sudhindranath. Jamal. Ahmed A.. http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Dutta,_Sudhindranath.
- http://www.parabaas.com/translation/database/authors/texts/sudhindranathdutta.html Sudhindranath Dutta (1901–1960)
- http://www.geetikavi.com/html/biography/younger.aspx Parvati Prasad Baruva
- http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/web1/03aug07/edit.htm#5 "People's poet of Bengal-Subhas Mukhopadhyay"
- http://www.indiaclub.com/shop/authorselect.asp?author=Bani+Basu Bani Basu
- http://www.museindia.com/showcont.asp?id=98 Meenakshi Mukherjee: Bani Basu's Novels
- http://www.gallerie.net Gallerie
- http://www.newagebd.com/2005/dec/09/arts.html Mustafa Monwar: A legend of our times
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/cricket/733289.stm Jagmohan Dalmiya: Cricket's face of change
- http://www.indianlifeandstyle.com/ILS-Sept-Oct05/looking%20glass.htm Code Name Success
- http://www.newkerala.com/news2.php?action=fullnews&id=60910 Photo News
- https://archive.today/20120918043201/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1031023/asp/northeast/story_2488487.asp Adventure of knowledge – Evelyn Norah Shullai
- http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/GreatMasters/Contents/GreatMasters_Contents.htm?f=../Contents/gourgopalghosh.htm Gourgopal Ghosh (1893–1940)
- http://www.fitnessnepal.com/history_dbb.htm fitnessNEPAL.com (fitnessNEPAL/History)
- http://www.nepalnews.com.np/contents/englishdaily/ktmpost/2003/jan/jan25/local.htm "Encounter with a martyr's daughter"
- http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-636599412,prtpage-1.cms 'Unexpected' finish by Surya Sekhar
- http://www.fide.com/ratings/card.phtml?event=5002150 Ganguly, Surya Shekhar
- http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3590 Indian National Championship won by Surya Ganguly