Rajendralal Mitra
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Rajendralal Mitra
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Raja Rajendralal Mitra was among the first Indian cultural researchers and historians writing in English. A polymath and the first Indian president of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, he was a pioneering figure in the Bengali Renaissance. Mitra belonged to a respected family of Bengal writers. After studying by himself, he was hired in 1846 as a librarian in the Asiatic Society of Bengal, for which he then worked throughout his life as second secretary, vice president, and finally the first native
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Bengali scholar
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendralal_Mitra
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2024-03-09T14:19:07Z
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