Suniti Kumar Chatterji

Bhashacharya Acharya Suniti Kumar Chatterjee
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation(s)	Linguist, Educationist and Litterateur
Awards	Padma Vibhushan (1955)
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Bhashacharya Acharya Suniti Kumar Chatterjee FRS (26 November 1890 – 29 May 1977) was an Indian linguist, educationist and litterateur. He was a recipient of the second-highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Vibhushan.^[1]

Life

Childhood

Chatterji was born on 26 November 1890 at

In 1914, he became assistant professor of English in the Post-Graduate Department of the University of Calcutta, which he held till 1919. He went abroad to study at the University of London where he studied Phonology, Indo-European Linguistics, Prakrit, Persian, Old Irish, Gothic and other languages. He then went to Paris and did research at the Sorbonne in Indo-Aryan, Slavic and Indo-European Linguistics, Greek and Latin. His teacher was the internationally acclaimed linguist, Jules Bloch. After returning to India in 1922, he joined the University of Calcutta as the Khaira Professor of Indian Linguistics and Phonetics. After retirement in 1952, he was made Professor Emeritus and later in 1965, the National Research Professor of India for Humanities.^{[citation needed]}

Foreign travel with Tagore

Suniti Kumar accompanied

• — (1921). "Bengali Phonetics" (PDF). Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London. 2 (1). London: Cambridge University Press: 1–25.
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• — (September 1923). "The Study of Kol". The Calcutta Review: 451–473.
• — (1926). The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language. Calcutta: Calcutta University Press.
• — (1927). Bengali Self-Taught. Marlborough's Self-Taught Series.
• — (1928). A Bengali Phonetic Reader. University of London Press.
• — (1931). "Calcutta Hindustani: A study of a Jargon Dialect". Indian Linguistics. 1 (2–4): 177–233.
• — (1935). "A Roman Alphabet for India". Calcutta University Phonetic Studies (4). Calcutta University Press.
• — (1936). "Purāṇa Legends and the Prakrit Tradition in New Indo-Aryan" (PDF). Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London. 8 (2/3). London: Cambridge University Press: 457–466.
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• — (1936). "Non-Aryan Elements in Indo-aryan". Journal of the Greater India Society.
• — (1940). Dwipmay Bharat দ্বীপময় ভারত [Island India] (in Bengali). Calcutta: Book Co.
• — (1951). Kirāta-jana-kṛti: the Indo-Mongoloids; their contribution to the history and culture of India. Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal.
• — (1942). Indo-Aryan and Hindi. University of Calcutta.
• — (1943). Language and Linguistic Problems. Oxford Pamphlets on Indian Affairs. Vol. 11. Oxford University Press.
• — (1953). "The Languages of the Adivasis". March of India. 6 (2).
• — (1957). Bharat - Sanskriti ভারত সংস্কৃতি [Culture of India] (in Bengali). Gupta-prakashika.
• —; Sukumar Sen (1960). A Middle Indo-Aryan Reader. Calcutta: Calcutta University.
• — (1960). "Mutual Borrowing in Indo-Aryan" (PDF). Bulletin of the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute. 20 (1). Pune: Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute: 50–62.
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• — (1963). Language and Literature of Modern India. Bengal Publishers.
• — (1965). "Race Movements and Prehistoric Culture". In R. C. Majumdar (ed.). The Vedic Age. Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan.
• — (1966). The People, Language, and Culture of Orissa. Orissa Sahitya Akademi.
• — (1968). Balts and Aryans in Their Indo-European Background. Simla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study.
• — (1968). India and Ethiopia: From the Seventh Century B.C. Asiatic Society.
• — (1978). Ramayana: its Character, Genesis, History and Exodus: A Resume. Calcutta: Prajña.
• — (1970). The place of Assam in the history and civilisation of India. Dept. of Publication, University of Gauhati.
• — (1971). World Literature and Tagore. Visva-Bharati.
• — (1983). On the development of Middle Indo-Aryan. Sanskrit College.
• — (1984). B.B. Rajapurohit (ed.). "Spoken Word in the Speech-lore of India: the Background". Papers in Phonetics and Phonology: Proceedings of an Institute. Central Institute of Indian Languages.
• — (1986). "The Name 'Assam-Ahom'". Journal of the Asiatic Society. 28 (3).
• — (1986). "The Word About Igor's Folk (Slavo O Pulku Igoreve) As a Specimen of Old Slav and Indo-European Heroic Poetry". Journal of the Asiatic Society. 28 (3).
• — (1989). "Two New Indo-Aryan Etymologies". Indian Linguistics.

Bibliographies of Suniti Kumar Chatterji's work have also been published:

• Kanjilal, Anil Kumar. Suniti Kumar Chatterji: A Select Bibliography of his Writings (PDF).

Notable students

• Sukumar Sen
• Korada Mahadeva Sastri

Death

Suniti Kumar died on May 29, 1977, in

External links

• Media related to Suniti Kumar Chatterji at Wikimedia Commons
• Works by or about Suniti Kumar Chatterji at Internet Archive