Brajendra Nath Seal

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Brajendra Nath Seal
Scottish Church College (BA)
  • University of Calcutta (PhD)
    • Occupations
    • Philosopher
    • Lawyer
    SpouseIndumati Rakshit[1]
    ParentMahendra Nath Seal (father)

    Mysore University
    .

    He began his career as a lecturer at the

    Visva-Bharati.[2]

    Life

    Brajendranath Seal was born in

    Keshub Chunder Sen's New Dispensation (and later on to found his own religious movement, the Ramakrishna Mission) and Seal staying on as an initiated member.[citation needed
    ]

    Seal was the inaugural chair of philosophy at India's first graduate school in philosophy at the

    Krishnath College in Berhampore.[5][6]

    Seal was the keynote speaker at the first session of the First Universal Races Congress of 1911 on 26 July 1911, which gathered speakers and attendees from across the world to discuss racial issues and encourage international cooperation. Part of his address included the declaration that

    We are assisting at a solemn function, the conferring of a new charter, the charter of the modern conscience, on each race and nation as a member of the world-system... From this watch-tower of Humanity, we seem to hear the measureless tread of generations behind and before, to witness the universal march and procession of Humanity, at the opening of a new era...[7]

    Michael Biddiss notes that Seal's opening words 'set the tone of effusion and euphoria' which pervaded much of the Congress as a whole.[7] Seal served as the vice chancellor of Mysore University from 1921 and retired in 1930 following a paralytic stroke.[8]

    Books

    • A Memoir on the Co-efficient of Numbers: A Chapter on the Theory of Numbers (1891)
    • Neo-Romantic Movement in Bengali Literature (1890–91)
    • A Comparative Study of Christianity and Vaishnavism (1899)
    • New Essays in Criticism (1903)
    • Introduction to Hindu Chemistry (1911)
    • Positive Sciences of the Ancient Hindus (1915)
    • Race-Origin (1911)
    • Syllabus of Indian Philosophy (1924)
    • Rammohan Roy: The Universal Man (1933)
    • The Quest Eternal (1936)

    Source: [2]

    See also

    References

    1. ^ Chatterjee, Srikanta. "Polymath Extraordinaire: Life and Works of Brajendranath Seal". practiceconnect.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in. Azim Premji University. Archived from the original on 16 January 2023. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
    2. ^ a b c d Roy, Pradip Kumar. "Seal, Brajendra Nath – Banglapedia". en.banglapedia.org. Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia. Archived from the original on 30 January 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
    3. ^ "Brajendra Nath Seal (1864–1938), by William Sweet". people.stfx.ca. Archived from the original on 16 January 2023. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
    4. ^ a b "Indian philosophy - 19th- and 20th-century philosophy in India and Pakistan". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 3 November 2018. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
    5. S2CID 250345494. Archived
      from the original on 17 February 2022. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
    6. ^ The Calcutta Review. 1888. Archived from the original on 16 January 2023. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
    7. ^
      S2CID 143076765
      – via Sage Journals.
    8. JSTOR 24099981. Archived
      from the original on 12 April 2022. Retrieved 12 April 2022.

    Further reading

    • Kopf, David. 1979. The Brahmo Samaj and the Shaping of the Modern Indian Mind. Princeton, NJ. Princeton University Press
    • Scottish Church College Magazine (Year – 1999, 2000, and 2001.Volume – 87, 88, and 89).

    External links
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