Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee

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BORN TO BE REMEMBER AFTER 150 YEARS...SIR ASHUTOSH MUKHERJEE .... WATERCOLOUR...A4 ...2014 .... Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee, CSI (Bengali: ?????? ????????????) (29 June 1864 – 25 May 1924) was a prolific Bengali educator and the second Indian Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta for four consecutive two-year terms (1906–1914) and a fifth two-year term (1921–23). Perhaps the most emphatic figure of Indian education, he was a man of great personality, high self-respect, courage and towering administrative ability. He became the first student to be awarded a dual degree (MA in Mathematics and Physics) from Calcutta University and received the prestigious Premchand-Roychand scholarship. Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was responsible for the foundation of the Bengal Technical Institute in 1906 and the College of Science of the Calcutta University in 1914. The Calcutta Mathematical Society was also founded by Mukherjee in 1908 and he served as the president of the Society from 1908 to 1923. He was also the president of the inaugural session of the Indian Science Congress in 1914. The Asutosh College was also founded under his stewardship in 1916, when he was Vice-chancellor of University of Calcutta. Ashutosh Mukherjee was knighted in 1911 for his contributions to education in India. He was often called the "Tiger of Bengal" for his high self-esteem, courage, academic integrity and a general intransigent attitude towards the British Government. Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee died in 1924 at Patna, Bihar soon after losing a hotly contested Hindu law inheritance case to the Shia Bihari Barrister Syed Hasan Imam. His son Syama Prasad Mookerjee founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh. The epitaph beneath his marble bust at the Ashutosh Museum of Arts at the University of Calcutta reads: “His noblest achievement, surest of them all/ A place for his mother tongue --- in step mother's hall.” [INFO : WIKIPEDIA]