List of Kolkata Presidencians
The following is a list of notable people associated with the old Presidency College, Calcutta .
Academics
Abhijit Banerjee , professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2019Abhijit Basu , professor of geology , Indiana University BloomingtonJoyoti Basu , cell biologist, N-Bios laureate[ 1] Ratan Lal Basu , Specialist in ancient economics and IndologistBirendra Bijoy Biswas , Botanist and molecular biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureateBarun De , Former Chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission and Founder-Director, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta .[ 2] Jitendra Nath Mohanty , philosopher, former president of the Indian Philosophical CongressSankar Das Sarma , eminent theoretical condensed matter physicist and Richard E Prange Chaired Professor at University of Maryland , US[ 3] Amartya Sen , Master, Trinity College, Cambridge (1998–2004); winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1998[ 4] Ashoke Sen , professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore, winner of Dirac Medal in 2014Surajit Chandra Sinha , former Vice Chancellor, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan; Maharajkumar of Susanga, Bengal[ 5] Sourindra Mohan Sircar , one of the greatest botanist of India. Was appointed the General President of ISCA Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak , scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic, holder of University Professor at Columbia University
Actors and Film Makers
Ashok Kumar , ActorChhabi Biswas , ActorDhritiman Chatterjee , ActorRitwik Ghatak , Film MakerPritish Nandy , Film MakerPramathesh Barua , Actor and Film MakerSatyajit Ray , Film MakerBikash Roy , ActorAparna Sen , Actor, Film Maker
Administration
Gurusaday Dutt , ICS, Secretary, Local Self Government and Public Health Secretary, Government of Bengal[ 6]
Faculty Members
Dipak Banerjee , former Head of the Department of Economics of Presidency College, Kolkata[ 7]
Judiciary
Politics
Subhas Chandra Bose , Freedom Fighter, Commander of INA, First Leader of Free Indian Territory, Mayor of Calcutta; 53rd President of the Indian National Congress; founder of the Forward Bloc;[ 9] Syama Prasad Mukherjee , founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh ; Industry and Supply Member, Government of India (1946–50)Bidhan Chandra Roy , 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal (1948–1962); 5th Mayor of Kolkata (1931–1933)Ajoy Mukherjee , 4th Chief Minister of West Bengal (1 March 1967 – 21 November 1967)[ 10] Siddhartha Shankar Ray , 5th Chief Minister of West Bengal (1972–77); Education Minister, Government of India; Governor of Punjab; Ambassador to U.S.A.Jyoti Basu , 6th Chief Minister of West Bengal (1977-2000)Buddhadeb Bhattacharya , 7th Chief Minister of West Bengal (2000–11)Ashim Chatterjee , Communist Revolutionary[ 11] Bishnu Ram Medhi , Chief Minister of Assam (1950–57)[ 12] [ 13] MJ Akbar , Minister of State for External Affairs, Government of India (2016–2018)[ 14] Abdus Salam Khan , Minister of Public Works and Communication (1955–1956) in the East Pakistan provincial cabinet[ 15] Md. Hafizur Rahman , Minister of Food and Agriculture of Pakistan (1958–1960); Minister of Commerce of Pakistan (1960–1962); Provincial Minister of Finance and Planning of East Pakistan (1962–1965)Amit Mitra , Finance Minister of West Bengal (2011–21)Maharajadhiraja Sir Uday Chand Mahtab , Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly (1937–52), Member, Indian Constituent Assembly, 1946-47 & Maharajadhiraja Bahadur of Burdwan.[ 16] Colonel H.H. Maharaja Nripendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur of Coochbehar[ 17] Raja Narasingha Malla Deb , OBE , MP , of Jhargram Raj
Religious leader
Sports
Vece Paes , Indian Hockey Player, studied Pre-Medical at Presidency College, Calcutta during 1964-65
Writers
Manik Bandyopadhyay , Fiction AuthorRajshekhar Basu , Fiction AuthorRatan Lal Basu , Fiction AuthorShakti Chattopadhyay , PoetHenry Louis Vivan Derozio , poet[ 18] Michael Madhusudan Dutt , Poet, DramatistSankha Ghosh , PoetBinoy Majumdar , PoetPritish Nandy , PoetSatyajit Ray , Fiction Author
Musician
References
^ "Indian fellow - Joyoti Basu" . Indian National Science Academy. 6 December 2017. Retrieved 6 December 2017 .^ Lives Less Forgotten: Barun De ^ "Prod to be the best" . www.telegraphindia.com . Archived from the original on 3 July 2015.^
Encyclopædia Britannica Online: Amartya Sen
^ Indian Princely States: Susanga ^ Lives Less Forgotten: Gurusaday Dutt ^ Bio ^ Lives Less Forgotten: Sir Sarat Kumar Ghosh ^ ; 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 )
^ Arild Engelsen Ruud: “Land and Power: The Marxist Conquest of Rural Bengal”; Modern Asian Studies; Vol. 28, No. 2 (May, 1994), pp. 357-380; Cambridge University Press
^ অসীম চট্টোপাধ্যায় (Asim Chattopadhyay) (2022): নকশালবাড়ি নামা (Nakshalbari Nama), Ananda Publishers, Kolkata
^ Assam Legislative Assembly ^ Eminent Personalities Archived 10 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine ^ "MEA | About MEA : Organization Structure : Ministers" .^ Karim, ASM Enayet (2012). "Khan, Abdus Salam" . In Islam, Sirajul ; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh . ^ Indian Princely States: Burdwan ^ Indian Princely States: Coochbehar ^ 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 . {{cite book }}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link )
