Brajendranath De

Brajendranath Dey (23 December 1852 – 20 September 1932) Bharat ke ek prachin Indian Civil Service ke karmachari rahen.

Shuruati jeevan aur shiksha
Brajendranath Dey ne apni shiksha Hare School, Calcutta se shuru ki thi, fir Canning Collegiate School aur Canning College, Lucknow mein bhi padhai ki. School mein hamesha unka rank pehla hota tha aur unhone apne final exams mein pehle division mein rank kiya. Calcutta University ke Entrance exam mein unhone apne school se pehla sthal hasil kiya aur phir First Arts (F.A.) exam mein bhi pehle division mein chautha sthal paya. B.A. (Honours) mein unhone English mein shiksha li aur usmein pehle division mein chhatha sthal paya. Unhe apni M.A. ki pariksha jaldi dene ki anumati mili aur usmein unhone doosra sthal prapt kiya, jiske liye unhe Calcutta University ka silver medal bhi mila.

Baad mein, apne dada-uncle Peary Charan Sarkar aur pita ke guru Raja Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee ke salah par, Brajendranath Dey England gaye. Wahaan unhone University College, London mein Open Competitive Services exam diya, aur safal hokar 1873 mein Indian Civil Service join kiya, jahaan unhone 17th rank prapt ki, 35 safal candidates mein se jo 360 candidates mein se select huye the. Unka ICS ke liye selection pehli baar 8 Indian ke liye tha.

Unhone St. Mary Hall, Oxford mein ek saal tak Boden Sanskrit Scholarship par padhai ki thi, aur wahaan unhone Professor Max Mueller aur Mr. Ruslan ke lectures bhi attend kiye.

Parivar
Unke dusre damad Sir Sarat Kumar Ghosh, ICS the, jo Jaipur aur Kashmir ke Chief Justice the. Unki ek beti Saroj Nalini Dutt, MBE, ek prasiddh samaj sudharak thi. Unke dusre damad Gurusaday Dutt, ICS the, jo Bengal Government ke Local Self Government aur Public Health ke Secretary the. Unke parivar mein kayi aur prasiddh vyakti the, jaise unke pote Barun De, jo ek prasiddh historian aur West Bengal Heritage Commission ke chairman the.

Karriyer
Administrative
Brajendranath Dey ne apna pehla posting 1875 mein Arrah, Behar ke Assistant Magistrate aur Collector ke roop mein shuru kiya. Vahaan unhone kai jagah kaam kiya, jaise Darbhanga aur Dumrao ke zamindari shehron mein. Fir, unko Raniganj, Bengal mein bhi posting mili.

Unhone apne service ke dauran kai pramukh jagah mein kaam kiya aur unhone Khulna mein district magistrate aur collector ke roop mein bhi kaam kiya. Unhone Balasore, Malda aur Hooghly mein bhi apna karyabhar sambhala. Unhe Hooghly Municipal Corporation ke pehle Indian chairman hone ka samman bhi mila.

Academic
Brajendranath Dey ne apne service ke dauran Sanskrit aur Persian ke kai mahatvapurn granthon ko angrezi mein anudit kiya, jismein Kalidas ke "Vikramorvasi" aur "Manichudabadana" shamil hain. Unhone Tabaqat-i-Akbari ko bhi do volo mein anudit aur sampadit kiya.

Retirement ke baad, unhone Asiatic Society, Calcutta ke council mein vice-president ke roop mein kaam kiya.

Virasa
Unke virasat ko yaad karte hue, unke naam par Chinsura, Hooghly mein ek sadak bhi hai.

Publications
Brajendranath Dey ne kai prasiddh granthon ko angrezi mein anudit aur sampadit kiya tha, unmein se kuch is prakar hain:

 (ed. & tran.), Kālidāsa ka natak "Vikramorvasi", 'Vikramorvaçi', Canto I., in Calcutta Review, Oct. 1884, pp. 440–442.
 (ed. & tran.), The Tabaqat-i-Akbari of Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmad: A History of India from the Early Musalman Invasions to the Thirty-eighth year of the Reign of Akbar (3 Vols., Calcutta, reprint, 1973)
 "Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service", in Calcutta Review, (1953–5).

References

External Links

 [(http://www.asiaticsocietycal.com/) The Asiatic Society, Calcutta]

Category:1852 janam
Category:1932 maut
Category:Alumni of St Mary Hall, Oxford
Category:Bengali historians
Category:Indian Civil Service (British India) officers
Category:Indian orientalists
Category:Sanskrit–English translators
Category:Persian–English translators
Category:19th-century Indian historians
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Category:Scholars from Kolkata
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Category:University of Lucknow alumni
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