Subodh Chandra Sengupta Explained

Subodh Chandra Sengupta
Birth Date:27 June 1903
Birth Place:Banari, Dhaka, Bengal Province, British India
Death Date:3 December 1998
Death Place:Kolkata West Bengal, India
Occupation:Academic
Scholar
Writer
Yearsactive:1929–1998
Known For:Shakesperean literature
Parents:Hemchandra Sengupta (Father)
Mrinalini Debi (Mother)
Awards:Padma Bhushan

Subodh Chandra Sengupta (27 June 1903 – 3 December 1998) was an Indian scholar, academic and critic of English literature,[1] known for his scholarship on Shakespearean works.[2] His books on William Shakespeare, which included Aspects of Shakespearian Tragedy,[3] Shakespearian Comedy[4] and Shakespeare's Historical Plays[5] are critically acclaimed for scholarship and academic rigor.[6] He was a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Presidency College (now Presidency University), Calcutta, and after retirement from Presidency College, became Professor of English Language and Literature at Jadavpur University, Calcutta,[7] as well as a professor of English literature at 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 Dhaka, in the Bengal Province of British India (present-day Bangladesh)[10] and did his college studies at Presidency College, Calcutta during 1924-26 where he had the opportunity to learn under such academics as Harendra Coomar Mookerjee, Prafulla Chandra Ghosh and Srikumar Banerjee.[11] After securing his MA in 1927, he continued his doctoral studies with Premchand Roychand scholarship during which time he started his career as a faculty member at the Presidency College, Calcutta. He served the institution from 1929 till 1960, barring two interludes from 1933 to 1935 and from 1942 to 1946.[12] In between, he secured his PhD in 1934 and also taught at Ramakrishna Mission Residential College for a while.

Sengupta published five books on Shakespeare, The whirlgig of Time: The problem of Duration in Shakespeare's Plays (1961),[13] A Shakespeare Manual (1977),[14] Aspects of Shakespearian Tragedy (1972), Shakespearean Comedy (1950), and Shakespeare's Historical Plays (1964), which are known to be reference texts on the English playwright. He also wrote on other literary figures such as George Bernard Shaw (The Art of Bernard Shaw[15]), Rabindranath Tagore (The Great Sentinel: A Study of Rabindranath Tagore[16]), Saratchandra Chatterjee (Saratchandra: Man and Artist[17]) and Bankimchandra Chatterjee (Bankimchandra Chatterjee[18]). His other major works included two original books, Towards a Theory of Imagination, a philosophical treatise,[19] India Wrests Freedom, a historical interpretation of 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, 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]

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Notes and References

  1. Shyam Prasad – A Hindutva British Stooge . Somesh . People's March . November 2000 . 1 . 9.
  2. Web site: Pedagogy: the academic Shakespeare . Internet Shakespeare Editions . 2016 . 22 July 2016.
  3. Book: Aspects of Shakespearian Tragedy . Oxford University Press . S. C. Sengupta . 1972 . 176 . 9780195602920. 832557.
  4. Book: Shakespearian Comedy . Oxford University Press . S. C. Sengupta . 1950 . 287 . 6476690.
  5. Book: Subodh Chandra SenGupta. Shakespeare's Historical Plays. 1966. Oxford University Press. 9780198116219.
  6. Book: Subodh Chandra Sen Gupta. Portraits and memories. 1 January 2003. Thema. 978-81-86017-40-1.
  7. Web site: Department of English Language & Literature . Jadavpur University, Calcutta . 2016 . 22 July 2016.
  8. Web site: English . Ramakrishna Mission Residential College . 2016 . 22 July 2016.
  9. Web site: Padma Awards . Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India . 2016 . 3 January 2016 . 19 October 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171019215108/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf . dead .
  10. Book: Mohan Lal. Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay to Zorgot. 1992. Sahitya Akademi. 978-81-260-1221-3. 3921–.
  11. Web site: The Coming on its Own . University of Vermont . 2016 . 22 July 2016.
  12. Book: Hema Dahiya. Shakespeare Studies in Colonial Bengal: The Early Phase. 3 July 2014. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 978-1-4438-6353-7. 181–.
  13. Book: The whirlgig of Time: The problem of Duration in Shakespeare's Plays . Orient Longmans . S. C. Sengupta . 1961 . 201 . 1940902.
  14. Book: A Shakespeare Manual . Oxford University Press . S. C. Sengupta . 1977 . 157 . 9780195609530 .
  15. Book: Subodh Chandra Sen Gupta. The art of Bernard Shaw. 1936. Folcroft Library Editions. 9780841444393.
  16. Book: The Great Sentinel: A Study of Rabindranath Tagore . Mukherjee . 1948 . S. C. Sengupta.
  17. Book: Subodh Chandra Sen Gupta. Saratchandra: Man and Artist. 1975. Sahitya Akademi.
  18. Book: Subodhchandra Sengupta. Bankimchandra Chatterjee. 1 January 1996. Sahitya Akademi Publications. 978-81-260-0001-2.
  19. Book: Towards a Theory of Imagination . Oxford University Press . S. C. Sengupta . 1959 . 315 . B0007J1C6U.
  20. Book: Subodh Chandra Sen Gupta. India wrests freedom. 1982. Sahitya Samsad.
  21. Book: Raghunath Ghosh. Humanity, Truth, and Freedom: Essays in Modern Indian Philosophy. 1 January 2008. Northern Book Centre. 978-81-7211-233-2. 159–.
  22. Book: Prafulla Chandra Ghosh. Mahatma Gandhi: As I Saw Him. 1968. S. Chand & Company.
  23. Book: Samsad Bengali-English dictionary . Calcutta Sahitya Samsad . Sailendra Biswas . Birendramohan Dasgupta . S C Sen Gupta . 1982 . 932 . 9418239.
  24. Web site: List of Annual Publications . Presidency College Alumni Association . 2016 . 23 July 2016.
  25. Web site: Sen Gupta, S. C. (Subodh Chandra) 1903-1998 . WorldCat . 2016 . 23 July 2016.
  26. Book: Mohit K. Ray. Studies in Literary Criticism. 1 January 2001. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. 978-81-269-0002-2. 3–.
  27. Book: Kanailal Basu. Netaji: Rediscovered. 19 January 2010. AuthorHouse. 978-1-4490-5569-1. 9–.
  28. Book: Sen Gupta Sen Gupta. Subodh Chandra Sen Gupta. Professor Subodh Chandra Sen Gupta: Scholar Extraordinary. 2000. Subodh Chandra Sengupta Foundation.
  29. Web site: Subodh Chandra Sengupta Foundation . Open Library . 2016 . 23 July 2016.

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