List of Kolkata Presidencians

The following is the list of notable people associated with Presidency University, Kolkata.

Social reformers

Politicians

Presidents

Governors

Prime Ministers

  • Mohammad Ali Bogra, 3rd Prime Minister of Pakistan (1953–55)
  • A.K. Fazlul Huq, Prime Minister of Bengal (1939–43)

Chief Ministers and Deputy Chief Ministers

  • Jyoti Basu, 6th Chief Minister of West Bengal
  • Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, 7th Chief Minister of West Bengal (2001–11)
  • Bishnu Ram Medhi, Chief Minister of Assam (1950–57)[1][2]
  • Siddhartha Shankar Ray, 5th Chief Minister of West Bengal (1972–77); Education Minister of India; Governor of Punjab; Ambassador to U.S.A.
  • Anugrah Narayan Sinha, 1st Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar (1946–57)

Ministers

  • MJ Akbar, Minister of State for External Affairs, Government of India(2016–present)[3]
  • Bratya Basu, Playwright and actor; Higher Education Minister, Government of West Bengal (2011–14)
  • Surendranath Banerjea, Minister in Bengal in the 1920s; 11th President of the Indian National Congress
  • Bhupendra Nath Bose, Bar-at-Law, Under Secretary in the Council for the Secretary of State for India;Vice Chancellor, University of Calcutta, and President, Indian National Congress.
  • Sarat Chandra Bose, Bengal Congress President; Works, Mines and Power Member, Government of India (1946) and first central cabinet Minister (1947)
  • Subhas Chandra Bose, Mayor of Calcutta; 53rd President of the Indian National Congress; founder of the Forward Bloc;[4]
  • Somnath Chatterjee, Speaker of Lok Sabha, India (2004–2009)
  • Sachindra Chaudhuri, Finance Minister of India
  • Pratap Chandra Chunder, Education and Social Welfare Minister, Government of India (1977–1980)
  • Chittaranjan Das, known as "Deshbandhu", founder of Swaraj Party
  • Asim Dasgupta, Finance Minister, Government of West Bengal (1987–2011)
  • B.K. Handique, Union Minister of Mines & Development of North Eastern Region, GOI.
  • Azizul Haque, B.L, C.I.E, K.C.S.I, D.Litt., former Education Minister, Government of Bengal
  • Humayun Kabir, Education Minister, Government of India (1958–67)
  • Fazlul Karim, Mayor of Cox's Bazar
  • Amit Mitra, Finance Minister of West Bengal (2011–present)
  • Syama Prasad Mukherjee, founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh; Industry and Supply Member, Government of India (1946–50)
  • Debi Prasad Pal, Minister of State for Finance, Government of India (1991–96)
  • Abdur Rahim, Member of the Bengal Executive Council (Administration of Justice, Jail and other Allied Subjects) (1921–25); later President of the Central Legislative Assembly
  • Saugata Roy, Minister of State for Urban Development, Government of India (2009–12)
  • Ashoke Kumar Sen, Law and Justice Minister, Government of India (1984–89)
  • Jatindra Mohan Sengupta, former Mayor of Calcutta; President of Indian National Congress
  • Atish Chandra Sinha, Minister of State for Public Undertaking, Cottage and Small Scale Industries, Government of West Bengal (1972–77) & Zamindar of Kandi, Bengal

Members of Parliament and Legislative Assembly

  • Nawaab Syed Shamsul Huda K.C.I.E. (1884), first Indian Muslim President of the reformed legislative council of undivided Bengal in 1921
  • Pandit Yamuna Karjee, Member of the Bihar and Orissa Legislative Assembly (1937–42)
  • Maharajadhiraja Sir Uday Chand Mahtab, Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly (1937–52), Member, Indian Constituent Assembly, 1946-47 & Maharajadhiraja Bahadur of Burdwan.[5]
  • Hirendranath Mukherjee, Member of Lok Sabha,Leader of the Opposition, India (1952–77)
  • Arjun Kumar Sengupta, Member of Rajya Sabha (2006-2010)

Maharajas and Zamindars

Members of Political Parties

Lawyers

Administrators

Officers of the Armed Forces

Industrialists

Academicians

Languages

Bengali

English

Sanskritists

Mathematical Sciences

Mathematicians

Statisticians

Natural Sciences

Biologists

Chemists

Computer Scientists

Engineers

  • Fazlur Rahman Khan, structural engineer; designed Chicago's 100-story John Hancock Center and 110-story Sears Tower

Geologists

  • Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay; Paleographist; archeologist; a household name as one of the discoverers of Mahenjodaro civilization.
  • Kshitindramohan Naha, geologist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
  • Subir Kumar Ghosh, geologist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate

Physicists

Psychologists

  • P. K. Roy, first Indian Principal of Presidency College, Calcutta

Social Sciences

Anthropologists

  • Surajit Chandra Sinha, former Vice Chancellor, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan; Maharajkumar of Susanga, Bengal[11]
  • Nirmal Kumar Bose; he was also a leading sociologist, urbanist, Gandhian, and educationist. Also active in the Indian freedom struggle with Mahatma Gandhi;served as Gandhi's private secretary in 1940's. Studied also Honors in Geology.

Economists

  • Abhijit Banerjee,Professor at Massachusetts institute of technology;Winner of the Nobel prize in Economics in 2019
  • Amartya Sen, Master, Trinity College, Cambridge (1998–2004); winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1998[12]
  • Amitava Bose, former Director, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
  • Amiya Bagchi, Chancellor, Tripura University, Agartala
  • Anindya Sen, Professor of Economics, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
  • Bibek Debroy, former Director, Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, New Delhi
  • Bimal Jalan, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (2000-4)
  • Debraj Ray, Julius Silver Professor of Economics, New York University
  • Dilip Mookerjee, Professor of Economics, Boston University
  • Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Chairperson, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations
  • Maitreesh Ghatak, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics
  • Mihir Rakshit, Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
  • Pranab Bardhan, Professor at University of California at Berkeley
  • Radhakamal Mukerjee, former Vice-Chancellor of University of Lucknow
  • Ratan Lal Basu, Fiction writer in English & Bengali, Indologist and author of books on ancient Indian Economics
  • Sugata Marjit, former Director, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (2007–2012), Vice-Chancellor, University of Calcutta; author.
  • Sukhamoy Chakravarty, Professor of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi; was a key architect of the Five-Year plans of India; Chakravarty Committee on Monetary Policy (1985)

Historians

  • A.F. Salahuddin Ahmed, Professor (retd) of History, Dhaka University; awarded the Ekushe Padak by the Government of Bangladesh
  • Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay, discoverer of Mohenjodaro, the principal site of the Harappa Culture
  • Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University, US
  • Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Professor of South Asian History, University of Chicago (B.A. [Hons.], Physics)
  • Barun De, former Chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission.[13]
  • Dwijendra Narayan Jha, Professor (retd) of History, University of Delhi
  • Romesh Chandra Majumdar, former Vice Chancellor, University of Dacca
  • Rajat Kanta Ray, Vice Chancellor (retd), Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan
  • Hemchandra Raychaudhuri, Charmichael Professor (retd.) of Ancient Indian History and Culture, University of Calcutta
  • Tapan Raychaudhuri, Padma Bhushan, Ad Hominem Professor (retd) of Indian History and Civilization, University of Oxford
  • Jadunath Sarkar, Kt.,Vice Chancellor (retd), University of Calcutta
  • Tanika Sarkar, Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University
  • Sumit Sarkar, Professor (retd) of History, University of Delhi
  • Susobhan Chandra Sarkar, Professor and Head of Department of History, Presidency College, Calcutta
  • Gautam Bhadra, Member of Subaltern
  • Ranajit Guha, Founder of Subaltern

Political Scientists

  • Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York, US
  • Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science, Columbia University, New York

Writers

Journalists

Poets, novelists and Non-Fiction Writers

Artists and Musicians

  • Pritam Chakraborty, Bollywood music director; sound engineer
  • Devajyoti Ray, artist
  • Dilipkumar Roy, singer
  • Atulprasad Sen, composer & singer of devotional and love songs of his own genre

Filmmakers, Theatre Personalities and Actors

SIDDHARTH chettri filmmaker

Sportspersons

  • Vece Paes, member of the bronze medal-winning Indian hockey team at the Munich Olympics (1972)

Faculty Members

References

  1. Assam Legislative Assembly
  2. Eminent Personalities Archived 10 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  3. http://www.mea.gov.in/ministers.htm
  4. 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)
  5. Indian Princely States: Burdwan
  6. Indian Princely States: Coochbehar
  7. Lives Less Forgotten: Sir Sarat Kumar Ghosh
  8. Lives Less Forgotten: Gurusaday Dutt
  9. "Indian fellow - Joyoti Basu". Indian National Science Academy. 6 December 2017. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
  10. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1131216/jsp/calcutta/story_17684419.jsp
  11. Indian Princely States: Susanga
  12. Encyclopædia Britannica Online: Amartya Sen
  13. Lives Less Forgotten: Barun De
  14. 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.
  15. Bio
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