Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s9.t10.1

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Surendranath Dasgupta (1885-1952 CE), an Indian modern philosopher and pundit, was born in a Sanskrit scholarly family in Bengal Kushtia. He received education in his early life at the school established by Krishna Gal Society. Later he went to Cambridge University to study Western philosophy. He devoted his life to philosophy and the teaching of Sanskrit, and also the research of Indian philosophy history. Dasgupta had been the professor at Chittagong College, head of Department of Philosophy at Calcutta Provincial