Sukumar Sen
Sukumar Sen may refer to: * Sukumar Sen (civil servant) (1899–1963), India's first Chief Election Commissioner *Sukumar Sen (linguist) Sukumar Sen (16 January 1900 – 3 March 1992) was an Indian linguist and historian of the Bengali literature, who was also well versed in Pāli, Prakrit and Sanskrit. Life Sen was born in 1900 to Harendra Nath Sen, a lawyer and Nabanalini De ...

Sukumar Sen (civil Servant)
Sukumar Sen (2 January 1898 – 13 May 1963) was an Indian civil servant who was the first Chief Election Commissioner of India, serving from 21 March 1950 to 19 December 1958. Under his leadership, the Election Commission successfully administered and oversaw independent India's first two general elections, in 1951–52 and in 1957. He also served as first Chief Election Commissioner in Sudan. Sen was the elder brother of Ashoke Kumar Sen (1913–1996), Union Law Minister and a noted Indian barrister. Another brother was Amiya Kumar Sen, an eminent doctor, who was the last man to see Rabindranath Tagore alive. says that Sen preserved Tagore's last poem, which he had written down at the poet's dictation, and later donated it to Indian Museum in Kolkata. Sen was born on 2 January 1899 in a Bengali Baidya-Brahmin family. He was the elder or eldest son of a civil servant Akshoy Kumar Sen. He was educated at Presidency College, Kolkata and at the University of London. He was awa ...
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