death_place death_date birth_place birth_date article_title name occupation
kolkata , west bengal , india 21 july 1964 chandrahar , bengal presidency 1911 shashibhusan dasgupta
 shashibhusan dasgupta , shashi bhushan dasgupta scholar critic , author , theologian in philosophy , languages and literature , literary
shashibhusan dasgupta

shashibhusan dasgupta , or shashi bhushan dasgupta , shashibhusan and shashi bhusan das gupta -lrb- 1911 -- 1964 -rrb- was a bengali scholar of philosophy , languages , literature -lrb- particularly bengali literature -rrb- , literary critic , author and theologian .
dasgupta was born in chandrahar village in modern barisal division , south-central bangladesh .
he obtained his ia from b m college , barisal , his ba -lrb- hons -rrb- in philosophy from scottish church college , kolkata , west bengal , india .
his ma in bengali language and literature was from calcutta university in 1935 , and he subsequently joined calcutta university 's bengali department as a researcher .
winning the 1937 premchand roychand studentship due to his scholarship contributions , dasgupta was appointed in bengali department a lecturer , and received his phd in that department in 1939 .
dasgupta 's chief opus is the identification of indian spiritual meditation forms and demonstration of their relationship to tantric buddhism , to saivite , sakta and vaishnava religious philosophies , and to bengali literature .
he won the 1961 sahitya akademi award for his work `` bharater shakti-sadhana o shakta sahitya . ''
dasgupta had authored novels , plays , poems and children 's books .
some editions of his works are published posthumously or in recently updated versions , and their exact or cited titles in english depend on the language variants being transliterated .
