Brajendra Kishore Roy Chowdhury (1874 AD - 1957 AD; Bengali Year: 1281-1364 ) was a patron of Indian classical music and national education of the Indian national movement.
Background
He was the
zamindar
A zamindar in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semi-autonomous feudal lord of a ''zamindari'' (feudal estate). The term itself came into use during the Mughal Empire, when Persian was the official language; ''zamindar'' is the ...
of
Gouripur in
Mymensingh
Mymensingh () is a metropolis, metropolitan city and capital of Mymensingh Division, Bangladesh. Located on the bank of the Old Brahmaputra River, Brahmaputra River, about north of the national capital Dhaka, it is a major financial center ...
, Bengal. His son was Pandit Birendra Kishore Roy Chaudhuri, the eminent sitar player, a founder of the music department of
Rabindra Bharati University
Rabindra Bharati University is a public research university in Kolkata, India. It was founded on 8 May 1962, under the Rabindra Bharati Act of the Government of West Bengal in 1961, to mark the birth centenary of the poet Rabindranath Tagore. I ...
,
Calcutta
Kolkata, also known as Calcutta (List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern ba ...
and author of ''Indian Music and Mian Tansen''.
Work
He was one of the principal patrons of the
National Council of Education
The National Council of Education - Bengal (or NCE - Bengal) was an organisation founded by Satyendranath Tagore and other Indian nationalists in Bengal in 1906 to promote science and technology as part of a ''swadeshi'' industrialisation moveme ...
that later became
Jadavpur University
Jadavpur University ( abbr. JU) is a public state funded research university with its main campus located at Jadavpur, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was established on 25 July in 1906 as ''Bengal Technical Institute'' and was converted into ...
,
Calcutta
Kolkata, also known as Calcutta (List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern ba ...
. He was a member of the Floud Commission in 1939.
Writings
* Marxism and the Indian Ideal (1941)
See also
*
Dawn (Bengali educational society)
*
National Council of Education
The National Council of Education - Bengal (or NCE - Bengal) was an organisation founded by Satyendranath Tagore and other Indian nationalists in Bengal in 1906 to promote science and technology as part of a ''swadeshi'' industrialisation moveme ...
*
Jadavpur University
Jadavpur University ( abbr. JU) is a public state funded research university with its main campus located at Jadavpur, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was established on 25 July in 1906 as ''Bengal Technical Institute'' and was converted into ...
References
Indian male writers
Bengali writers
1874 births
1957 deaths
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