Ashutosh Mukherjee, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ashutosh Mukherjee

Indian academic

Date of Birth: 29-Jun-1864

Place of Birth: Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Date of Death: 25-May-1924

Profession: judge, lawyer, professor

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Ashutosh Mukherjee

  • Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee CSI, FRSE, FRAS, FPSL, MRIA (anglicised, originally Asuto?h Mukhopadhya?a, also anglicised to Asutosh Mookerjee) (29 June 1864 – 25 May 1924) was a prolific Bengali educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician.
  • He was the first student to be awarded a dual degree (MA in Mathematics and Physics) from Calcutta University.
  • Perhaps the most emphatic figure of Indian education, he was a man of great personality, high self-respect, courage and towering administrative ability.
  • The second Indian Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta for four consecutive two-year terms (1906–1914) and a fifth two-year term (1921–23), Mukherjee was responsible for the foundation of the Bengal Technical Institute in 1906 and the College of Science of the Calcutta University in 1914. Mukherjee also played a vital role in the founding of the University College of Law popularly known as Hazra Law College.
  • The Calcutta Mathematical Society was also founded by Mukherjee in 1908 and he served as the president of the Society from 1908 to 1923.
  • He was also the president of the inaugural session of the Indian Science Congress in 1914.
  • The Ashutosh College was also founded under his stewardship in 1916, when he was Vice-chancellor of University of Calcutta. He was often called "Banglar Bagh" ("Tiger of Bengal") for his high self-esteem, courage, academic integrity and a general intransigent attitude towards the British Government.

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