| Name(s) |
SURENDRANATH
DASGUPTA |
| Date of
Birth |
October 1887 (Date
not known) |
| Date of
Death |
December 18, 1952 |
|
Identity |
Indian Scholar of
Sanskrit and Philosophy |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- 1916: He received the
Griffith Prize.
- 1920: He completed his
doctorate in Indian Philosophy.
- 1920-1922: He was sent to
Europe.
- 1921: The Cambridge
University Press published the first volume of the History
of Indian Philosophy.
- 1926: He was sent on
deputation by the Government of Bengal to the International
Congress at Harvard.
- 1932: He served as
President of the Indian Philosophical Congress.
- November 1945: He delivered
his last public lecture on Hinduism in Trinity College,
Cambridge.
- 1945 to 1950: He was confined to
bed with acute heart trouble and stayed in England for five
years. Despite his illness, he published the fourth volume
of his History of Indian Philosophy at the Cambridge
University Press, the History of Sanskrit Literature at
Calcutta University, Rabindranath the Poet and Philosopher
with his Calcutta publishers, and a book on aesthetics in
Bengali.
- 1950: He returned to
Lucknow, India.
- 1951: He started writing
the fifth and final volume of the History of Indian
Philosophy.
|
|
Other Events &
Developments |
- His own philosophy was known as Theory of Dependent
Emergence.
- The University of Warsaw made him an honorary Fellow of
the Academy of Sciences.
- He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of
Literature.
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