13 Facts About Brajendranath De

Brajendranath De was the 8th Indian member of the ICS.

Brajendranath De was admitted to St Mary Hall, Oxford, where he spent one year, from 1874 to 1875, on a Boden Sanskrit Scholarship, having attended the lectures of Professor Max Mueller and Mr Ruslan.

Brajendranath De was the first Indian ICS officer to have studied in a college in Oxford.

Brajendranath De took up his first posting in the civil service as assistant magistrate and collector of Arrah, Behar in 1875.

Brajendranath De served in districts where the rulers of erstwhile zamindari estates, such as Darbhanga and Dumrao, had a strong presence.

Brajendranath De officiated as the district magistrate and collector of Bankura, Burdwan and Faridpore.

Brajendranath De served as the full district magistrate and collector of Khulna, where he was befriended by Dr Krishnadhan Ghosh, the civil surgeon of the district, and the father of Aurobindo Ghosh.

Brajendranath De became the magistrate and collector of Balasore in Orissa and then of Malda and Hooghly.

Brajendranath De was the first Indian to be elected as chairman of the Hooghly Municipal Corporation.

Brajendranath De was an commissioner of the Burdwan Division.

Brajendranath De edited an English-Bengali dictionary and published an article on inter dining in the Madras Social Reformer.

Brajendranath De was the translator and editor, in two volumes, Nizamuddin Ahmad's Tabaqat-i-Akbari.

Brajendranath De edited and translated a few works from those languages into English.