1. Surendranath Dasgupta was an Indian scholar of Sanskrit and Indian philosophy.
21 Facts About Surendranath Dasgupta
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Surendranath Dasgupta studied at Ripon College in Calcutta and graduated with honours in Sanskrit.
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Surendranath Dasgupta got a second master's degree in Western philosophy in 1910 from the University of Calcutta.
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Surendranath Dasgupta earned the Griffith Prize in 1916 and his doctorate in Indian philosophy in 1920.
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Surendranath Dasgupta was appointed lecturer at Cambridge and nominated to represent Cambridge University at the International Congress of Philosophy in Paris.
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Surendranath Dasgupta received his Cambridge doctorate for an elaborate thesis on contemporary European philosophy.
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Surendranath Dasgupta was invited in 1925 to the second centenary of the Academy of Science, Leningrad, but he could not attend for lack of Government sanction.
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Surama Surendranath Dasgupta went on to postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge, taking a PhD in philosophy from Cambridge in 1948.
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Surendranath Dasgupta went on to become a Reader in the Philosophy Department at Lucknow University.
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Dasgupta's former wife was upset at his remarriage, alleging that she and Surendranath had not been divorced.
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Surendranath Dasgupta was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Kind and simple and gentle as he was, Surendranath Dasgupta was always undaunted in challenging scholars and philosophers.
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Surendranath Dasgupta inflicted this treatment on many other scholars, particularly Fyodor Shcherbatskoy and Sylvain Levi.
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Originally Surendranath Dasgupta's plan was to write out the history of Indian systems of thought in one volume.
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Surendranath Dasgupta spared no pains and underwent a tremendous amount of drudgery in order to unearth the sacred, buried treasures of Indian thought.
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Surendranath Dasgupta revised his original plan of writing only one volume and thought of completing the task in five consecutive volumes constituting a series.
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Surendranath Dasgupta shouldered this gigantic task all alone, with the sincerest devotion and unparalleled enthusiasm and zeal.
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Surendranath Dasgupta worked there for three years and delivered the Stephanos Nirmalendu lectures on the history of religions.
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Surendranath Dasgupta had been suffering from heart trouble since 1940 but was still carrying on his various activities and research work.
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Surendranath Dasgupta had planned to write out his own system of philosophy in two volumes.
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Surendranath Dasgupta died peacefully at eight in the evening, while discussing problems of modern psychology.