M. C. Sharma is the son of Pandit Din Dayal Sharma, a sanathanist Sanskrit scholar, promoter of the Hindu Mahasabha in the 1920s and an associate of Madan Mohan Malaviya. Mauli Chandra grew up in Delhi and attended the Hindu College. He went on to study law, but gave that up in 1923 to join political activity. Sharma had been a member of the Indian National Congress up to the time of independence. He worked as the Chief Minister of a princely state and as the Secretary to the Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes. He attended the Round Table Conference in London in 1930 and 1931 as a member of the States delegation.
Life and early career
Mauli Chandra Sharma
Mauli Chandra Sharma | Life and early career
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A senior Indian politician, originally of the Indian National Congress. He was a founding member of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh
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M. C. Sharma is the son of Pandit Din Dayal Sharma, a sanathanist Sanskrit scholar, promoter of the Hindu Mahasabha in the 1920s and an associate of Madan Mohan Malaviya. Mauli Chandra grew up in Delhi and attended the Hindu College. He went on to study law, but gave that up in 1923 to join political activity. Sharma had been a member of the Indian National Congress up to the time of independence. He worked as the Chief Minister of a princely state and as the Secretary to the Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes. He attended the Round Table Conference in London in 1930 and 1931 as a member of the States delegation.
Mauli Chandra Sharma | Life and early career
During this period, he also passed Matriculation and Intermediate examinations. In 1953, he obtained the "Shastri" degree (equivalent to Bachelor of Arts) with Sociology, History and Political Science specializations from the Kashi Vidyapith. In 1957, he obtained a Master of Arts degree in Ancient Indian History and Culture from the Banaras Hindu University.
Ajay Mitra Shastri | Early life and education
The lone polytechnic institute in the region – Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Polytechnic maintains that Ghosh did not pass the diploma from the college between 1975 and 1990.
Dilip Ghosh (politician) | Early life
Born in Allahabad, India, Agrawal earned a Bachelor's degree of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Agrawal then moved to the United States, earning a Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Clemson University in 1985, and a PhD in mechanical engineering from Duke University in 1989.
C. Mauli Agrawal | Early life and education
Posani later joined Presidency College and graduated with a MPhil degree, which was his second master's degree. He wanted to obtain a PhD degree. Although he joined a college to do so, he later discontinued his studies because of his work.
Posani Krishna Murali | Early life and education
Born in Ludhiana, Punjab, India, he was the eldest of nine children. The loss of his father at an early age placed the responsibility for the family on his shoulders. He believed strongly in the power of education and ensured that all his brothers and sisters studied hard. He sent his brother K. C. to Cambridge. Mahindra received his degree from Victoria Jubilee Technological Institute (VJTI) Bombay (University of Bombay), one of India's premier engineering and technical institutes.
Jagdish Chandra Mahindra | Early life and education
He entered the University of Allahabad in 1973, graduated in 1975 and then completed his masters in 1977. He received the Doctor of Philosophy award from the same university in 1986. He was selected for the Indian Civil Services, but opted for an academic career.
Lakshmi Raj Sharma | Early life and education
On learning some English he secured admission in Hare School as a free student in 1840. In 1849, he passed the junior scholarship examination and joined Hindu College, where he studied up to 1854. At that time, Hindu College did not have facilities for teaching science and as he was bent upon studying medicine, he transferred to Calcutta Medical College. At Calcutta Medical College he was so esteemed by his professors that in the second year of his course he was invited by them to deliver a series of lectures on optics to his fellow students, a task he performed honourably.
Mahendralal Sarkar | Early life and education
Upon his release after 15 months in 1944, he enrolled at Allahabad University, where he topped the University in M.A. (Political Science); he continued his education with an LLB from the same university, and was elected as the President of the Students' Union of the Allahabad University in 1947. Meanwhile, he remained Secretary of the All India Student Congress from 1947 to 49.
N. D. Tiwari | Early life and education
His days in Banaras were spent under the guidance of Madan Mohan Malviya and with fellow students such as Ram Manohar Lohia, Rudra Dutt Bharadwaj, Janardan Jha, and Brij Lal. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1929. He achieved first class and ranked second among all students in Allahabad University, the Oxford of India. He spent his days among many brilliant students and teachers including Dr. Amarnath Jha, Professor A. B. Lal, Professor R. N. Deb, Sri Aditya Nath Jha (Later Governor of Delhi), Harivansh Rai Bachchan, and Mahadevi Verma, who later became literary colleagues.
P. C. Gupta | Early years and education
He was born on 29 May 1912. He was educated at the Presidency College, and the Scottish Church College, both within the University of Calcutta during 1928 and 1932. Thereafter he studied at the University College London (1932–35), and subsequently studied at the Lincoln's Inn (1936–37), from where he passed his Barrister-at-Law examination in January 1937.
Subimal Chandra Roy | Early life and education
He attended Lexington High School. Mukherjee attended Harvard College, where he graduated magna cum laude as a Harry S. Truman Scholar, and received his MBA at Harvard Business School.
Anjan Mukherjee | Early life and education
She did her schooling from the Maharaja Girls' School, Jaipur, the Lady Maclegan High School, Lahore and the Kanya Mahavidyalaya at Jalandhar. She obtained a master's degree in Political Science from the Forman Christian College, Lahore. It was during her college days that she became involved with political activities.
Subhadra Joshi | Early life and education
After his schooling from Modern School, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi, he did his further studies in Business Management at University of Massachusetts and completed his MBA in Finance from Graphic Era University, Dehradun.
Sanjay Chandra | Early life and education
He did his primary schooling from Fatima High School, Vidhya Vihar, and secondary schooling from Shardashram High school, Dadar, First-year College was Ambedkar College for Commerce, Second year in Kirti College, Prabhadevi, and three-year secondary till the final Year college from Lala Lajpat Rai College of Commerce at Worli, Haji Ali and Post Graduation i.e. M.Com. from The University of Mumbai.
Milind Gawali | Early life
He completed his early education, as well as the Undergraduate education, at Varanasi, with B.A. (1957) from Banaras Hindu University; M. A. (1959, Hindi Literature, University of Allahabad); and M.A. (1962, General Linguistics, K.M. Institute, Agra University). He received his Ph.D. (1971, General Linguistics) from the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.
Rama Nath Sharma | Education
Mahan Mitra studied at St. Xavier's Collegiate School, Calcutta, till Class XII. He then entered the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, with an AIR (All India Rank) rank of 67 in the Joint Entrance Examination, where he initially chose to study electrical engineering but later switched to mathematics. He graduated with a Masters in mathematics from IIT Kanpur in 1992.
Mahan Mj | Early education
and did his Intermediate in Pilani, Rajasthan. He took a BA degree at the Sanatan Dharma College, Kanpur. In 1939 he moved over to Agra and joined St. John's College, Agra to pursue a master's degree in English literature but could not continue his studies. The reason was a cousin of his Ramadevi passed away. He became depressed and lost interest and did not take up his MA exams. His scholarship from the Maharaja of Sikar and from Shri Birla were discontinued as well.
Deendayal Upadhyaya | Early life and education
During this period, he attended Sen's Sunday evening sermons and was deeply influenced by his "Sulabha Samachar". In 1878, he passed the school's Entrance Examination (matriculation exams) with a First Division, and was admitted as an FA (First Arts) student to the Metropolitan Institution (later Vidyasagar College) which was established by Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. The English literature teacher at the Institution was Surendranath Banerjee, the prominent Indian nationalist and future president of the Indian National Congress, whose passionately held ideals including an emphasis on the value of service and the need to continually strive for India's rejuvenation left a definite and lasting impression on Ray, who took those values to heart.
Prafulla Chandra Ray | Childhood and early education (1866-1882)
He studied at D. G. Ruparel College, Matunga, Mumbai-400016 (Mumbai University) and D.G. Ruparel College. He did his schooling from D.B. Kulkarni School.
Ajit Parab | Early life
Born in a lower-middle class family from a village in Nalanda, Bihar, he attended Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi where he completed his doctorate in Theatre and Performance Studies at School of Arts & Aesthetics.
Mrityunjay Prabhakar | Early life and education
Born on 1 October 1920, he studied at the Saidabad Hardinge H.E. School in Murshidabad, the Krishnath College in Berhampore, the Scottish Church College and the Hazra Law College of the University of Calcutta. Subsequently, he passed his Barrister-at-Law examinations from the Inner Temple in London.
Amarendra Nath Sen | Early life and education
His professional career was started through the post of a "Demonstrator" at Physics department of Presidency College, later he joined the faculty there. Till 1940, he performed this duty for nearly 35 years. He got Jagadish Chandra Bosu as a teacher when he was a student; and Meghnad Saha, Satyendra Nath Bosu, Shishir Kumar Mitra & Prashanta Chandra Mahalnabish as students when he was a teacher of Presidency College. Another student, Pratul Chandra Gupta once told that, "...he could explain complex matters in a very simple way."
Charu Chandra Bhattacharya | Early life and career
Duara attended the Doon School in India and studied history at St. Stephen's College, Delhi. After obtaining BA and MA in history from St. Stephen's College, Duara received his M. Phil in Chinese Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University. He then completed his PhD at Harvard University in History and East Asian languages in 1983.
Prasenjit Duara | Early life and education
After graduating with a gold medal in 1954, Bhatia won a Rockefeller Scholarship (1954–58) as well as a French Government Scholarship (1957–58) that allowed him to study with Nadia Boulanger at the Conservatoire de Paris for five years.
Vanraj Bhatia | Early life and education
Fellow at the Harvard University 1963-64. Vice-Chairman International Committee for adult education(UNESCO) Founder and Secretary Vaisali Sangha Bihar connected with Sangit Natak Akademi and National School of Drama for some years.
Jagdish Chandra Mathur | Early life
(Hons) degree (1966) and M.Sc. in Chemistry degree (1968) from the then Ravenshaw College, Cuttack (now a unitary University).
Ramesh Chandra Parida | Early life and education
In all school functions, he used to do mimicry. He did his pre-university course from Vaishnava College, Madras. He did BSc in Geology from the Presidency College, Madras and then Law from Madras Law College, Madras.
M. N. Krishnamani | Early life
Manushya Puthiran born as the second of four children on 15 March 1968, in Thuvarankurichi, Tiruchirappalli District. He started his schooling at the age of 7 and he describes his early life: Completed his schooling in private, continued his first year degree in Bachelor of Arts through Distance Learning Programs, Annamalai University. Just not to miss the fun and experience of campus, from 2nd year onwards he started attending college. Later he did dual master's degree one in Mass Communication and other in History.
Manushyaputhiran | Early life and education
De studied at Hare School, Calcutta, and then Canning Collegiate School and Canning College, Lucknow. Always ranking at the top of his class in school, he was placed in the first division in all his final examinations. He came first from his school in the Entrance examination of Calcutta University and fourth in the first division in the First Arts (F.A.) examination of Calcutta University. A student of English (Honours), he ranked sixth in the first division in his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) examination. Since he was a first divisioner, he was allowed to take the Master of Arts (M.A.) examination of the Calcutta University soon after the completion of his B.A.
Brajendranath De | Early life and education
He graduated in economics from Delhi University, and then did a two-year B.A. in Tripos in economics at Trinity Hall, Cambridge at the University of Cambridge which, in the Oxbridge tradition, became an M.A. with the passage of time. He was a member of Trinity Hall. He was also an active member of the Marxist Society in Cambridge. At Cambridge, Aiyar joined student politics and once even tried to win a presidential contest. Rajiv Gandhi, who was his junior both at Doon and Cambridge, supported him in his campaign.
Mani Shankar Aiyar | Early life and education
He pursued his undergraduate studies at Stanford University, in the United States, where he majored in industrial engineering, and earlier graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy. Prior to that he attended the elite Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai.
Kabir Mulchandani | Early life and education
Pratap Chandra Sen, a student of history at Presidency College, Calcutta, who rose to a high position in a mercantile firm in Calcutta in spite of remaining a closet communist. Mohit Sen had his early education at the Presidency College, Calcutta, where he was a student of Professor Susobhan Sarkar. Later he studied at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Mohit Sen | Early life and education
Prasad studied in Nalhati HP High School, Krishnath College Berhampore, received his B.Sc. from the Presidency College, Calcutta University and M.Sc. from Rajabazar Science College campus of Calcutta University followed by a Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore in 1968.
Phoolan Prasad | Early life and education
He also participated in intercollegiate ramp shows (fashion shows) and dance competitions. During his college days, he was CS (cultural secretary) of PD Lions college. He actively participated in college annual days in drama (theatre plays). He did his Master of Theatre Arts (MA in Natyashashastra) from University of Mumbai. Also called as Ramgabhimi Kala Adhisnatak.
Sanjay Shejwal | Early life
In 1904, he obtained a scholarship to S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia for his secondary education. He passed Cambridge Junior and Cambridge Senior examinations with merits.
T. B. Jayah | Early Education
Mauli Chandra Sharma (M. C. Sharma) was a senior Indian politician, originally of the Indian National Congress. He was a founding member of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, serving as its Vice-President and President, before being forced out by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh activists in the party in 1954.
Mauli Chandra Sharma | Introduction
In 1918 he passed the Intermediate exam from the Government College, Mangalore and went to Bombay and joined the Mechanical Engineering Course at the Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute, Bombay (VJTI). After 3 years as a top ranking student, he gave up his studies in response to Mahatma Gandhi's non-cooperation movement and returned to Udupi. He worked as a volunteer teacher in a national school started by the Congress Party under Gandhiji's call to replace English aided schools.
Vaman Srinivas Kudva | Early life and education
Born into a wealthy household in Hazaribagh, he completed his schooling from St. Xavier's School and passed his Indian School Examination conducted by the University of Cambridge Local examination Syndicate, U.K. by securing first Division in 1970. He graduated from St. Columba's College, Hazaribag in 1974. He passed his LL.B. Examination from Chotanagpur Law College Ranchi in 1979.
Tapen Sen | Early life
He did theatre and was active in college politics as a member of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. Out of fear of failure in acting he also worked briefly for a Five Star hotel in Patna. After his stay of about seven years in Patna, he moved to Delhi to enroll in the National School of Drama, from where he graduated in 2004.
Pankaj Tripathi | Early life
Midway through it, the institution was closed for while due to student agitation, so he came to Bombay, started working, and never went back to complete the course.
Prakash Jha | Early life and education
In 1990, he joined Jawaharlal Nehru University for a MPhil degree in English literature. He later started working on a PhD on Bihar's popular folk theater form "Bidesia" but was assassinated before he could complete it.
Chandrashekhar Prasad | Early life and education
He received a M.A. in history in 1866 and a degree in law, the following year.
Chandranath Basu | Early life and education
He again stood First in the First Class in his M.A. examination in 1913 and was awarded the Griffith Prize in 1919. His nephews were Tapan Kumar Raychaudhuri and Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri.
Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri | Early life and education
However, when Dr Annie Besant tried to impose norms of attire on the lecturers, Ramavtar Sarma reacted,'Clothes are for comfort. I shall not wear coat and trousers to college.' He went back home but the fledgling university at Patna needed someone to head its combined department of Hindi and Sanskrit and invited him over. He joined Patna University in 1907. In 1908 he was asked by Sir Asutosh Mukherji of Calcutta University to deliver the famous Basu-Mallick lecture. This was an exposition on Vedantism which was later delivered at Oxford University. This was regarded as the final word on the subject and stands unrefuted to this day.
Ram Avatar Sharma | Career
Gupta was born in India to R.S. Gupta and Minnie Gupta, one of 3 children. He attended St. Columba's High School before going on to pursue a Bachelor of Arts (honours) degree in economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University. After graduating, he enrolled at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad for his postgraduate diploma in management.
Piyush Gupta | Early life and education
He graduated with an M. Sc. from IIT Bombay. He later obtained a post-graduate degree from Harvard University. He obtained a doctorate from the University of Mumbai in 2004.
Jairaj Phatak | Early life and education
Back in Delhi in the early 1950s, Bipan Chandra was appointed lecturer in History at the Hindu College, Delhi. Later he completed his Ph.D. from Delhi University in 1963.
Bipan Chandra | Early life and education
Jha completed his BA (Hons.) in History at Presidency College of the University of Calcutta and then his MA in History at Patna University where he was a student of Professor R.S. Sharma.
D. N. Jha | Education
Following the first dissection, the College authorities requested that Gupta should complete formal medical qualifications to avoid any future student objections to being taught by a "mere kaviraja" or non-doctor. He received a medical degree in 1840.
Madhusudan Gupta | Later career
Mridha passed his matriculation examination from Rajshahi Muslim Higher Secondary School in 1961 and the intermediate examination in 1963 from Rajshahi College. He completed his bachelor's and master's from Rajshahi University in political science.
Khoda Box Mridha | Early life and education
Following a first division placement in the Entrance and Intermediate Arts examinations, Bandyopadhyay completed his undergraduate degree in economics, history, and sanskrit at the Surendranath College (then Ripon College) in Kolkata. He was admitted to the master's degree (MA) and Law classes, but could not afford to enroll for the postgraduate course at the University of Calcutta, and joined as a teacher in a school in Jangipara, Hooghly.
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay | Early life and education
Born to doctors, he comes from a family of Rajvaidyas (Sen Sharma) and is the 17th generation physician of his family. He was born in Lucknow, brought up in Delhi, and used to stay in Connaught Place's Railway Colony and Srinagar. He did his schooling from St. Columba's School, Delhi. He was active in theatre and singing right from his school days and that's where he realised his singing capabilities. Thereafter he studied medicine at the University College of Medical Sciences (UCMS) and Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, New Delhi, and received an M.B.B.S. degree.
Palash Sen | Early life and education
After completing his graduation from the University of Dacca, he came to India following the partition of India in 1947. Although he attended postgraduate classes in economics at the University of Calcutta, he was refused admission there. He moved to Banaras Hindu University where he earned an M.A. in economics. He joined the newly established Delhi School of Economics in the early 1950s. Later, he attended the Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands. Under the guidance of Professor Jan Tinbergen of the University of Rotterdam, he was awarded a doctorate in economics there in 1953.
Ashok Mitra | Early life and education
He started his school life in Malda Zilla School and Then he earned his Undergraduate and Postgraduate Degrees in Economics from the University of Calcutta. Thereafter he secured a doctorate (PhD) in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He started his career as a college lecturer and retired as a professor of economics at the University of Calcutta, before moving on to a career in politics.
Asim Dasgupta | Education and early life
He joined the Presidency College to obtained his MA in 1886 and BL in 1890, and enrolled himself as a pleader of the Calcutta High Court. In 1887, he was appointed a lecturer in history and economics in the Berhampore College. In 1895 he founded the Bhagavat Chatuspathi, a first attempt to an alternate system of higher studies.
Satish Chandra Mukherjee | Early life
Sharma was born on . He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Sherubtse College, Bhutan and a Master of Arts in Economics degree from University of Allahabad, India. He completed his Advance Diploma in Community Services from the Canberra Institute of Technology, Australia.
Loknath Sharma | Early life and education
Patil grew up in Jamshedpur, India. His father was the first person in the family to go to a university and get an engineering degree and worked at Tata Steel while Patil was growing up. Patil went to study intermediate science at St. Xavier's College, Kolkata and then to the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur for his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his masters and doctorate degrees, graduating in 1967 and 1970 respectively.
Suhas Patil | Early life and education
Seshadri had his higher education at the Calicut Provincial School and the Trivandrum High School from where he matriculated in first class in 1863 winning the Connoly Scholarship. Seshadri was admitted to the Presidency College, Madras where he was mentored by E. B. Powell. Seshadri graduated in 1866 emerging first in the B. A. examinations.
K. Seshadri Iyer | Early life
It was at Scottish Church that he got initiated to theatre. There were regular shows at the college where the likes of Badal Sarkar, Rudraprasad Sengupta and others were students. He did his MA in Philosophy from the University of Calcutta and began research for a doctorate. But by then he and friends like theatre and film director Partha Pratim Chowdhury had begun the group Sundaram. He began by teaching philosophy in the Suri Vidyasagar College (only one day) and later joined the drama department at the Rabindra Bharati University, where he became the head of department and retired as Sisirkumar Bhaduri professor of RBU.
Manoj Mitra | Early life
He Secured degree of Bachelor of Science in the year 1981 with distinction in three subjects. Awarded National Merit Scholarship for Post Graduate Studies. Enrolled as a student of law in Dr. Hari Singh Gour University, Sagar in 1981. Graduated on top of the class and obtained L.L.B degree in 1984 with three university Gold Medals.
Satish Chandra Sharma | Education
Manindra Agrawal obtained a B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur (1986 batch). He later joined as a Ph.D. student in the same institute.
Manindra Agrawal | Early life and Education
Sharma was born on 12 October 1923 in Kankhal, Haridwar, India. He completed his primary education there. As part of this education he studied Hindi literature in Banaras. His teachers included Ram Chandra Shukla, Nand Dulare Bajpai, Keshav Prasad Mishra, Jagannath Sharma and Hazari Prasad Dwivedi. He studied Buddhism and Pali and completed his BA, MA, and LLB at Banaras Hindu University. Nand Dulare Bajpai encouraged him to write and patiently read all that he had written during the week. He married Shakuntala Sharma in 1953. They have one daughter Shubhra Sharma.
Krishna Chandra Sharma | Early life
He was born in on 9 July 1921 to Kashinathpant and Sarasvatibai in Kadus, Pune district. He joined the Sarasvati Mandir School in Pune and matriculated in 1939. He earned LLB and MA, as well as cleared the bar council exam. He was regional secretary of the RSS in 1950-54. He was also involved with running the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of RSS. On urging of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), he went to Kerala as a RSS pracharak.
Rambhau Mhalgi | Early life and education
However, he learnt to overcome his fear of large classes very quickly and now teaches up to 1,000 students per lecture. In NTU, his students remembered him for his style of teaching, as well as his distinctive moustache and bald pate. He had started losing his hair from the age of 18; according to him, the baldness might be hereditary.
Lalit Goel | Early life and accolades
Chandra Shekhar was born on 1 July 1927 in a Rajput family at Ibrahimpatti, a village in Uttar Pradesh. He came from a poor farming family. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (graduate) degree at Satish Chandra P.G. College. He attended Allahabad University, obtaining his master's degree in political science in 1950. He was known as a firebrand in student politics and started his political career with Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia. After he had completed his graduation, he became active in socialist politics.
Chandra Shekhar | Early years and Education
Hiralal Jain, Dr. A.N. Upadhye. After completing his secondary education here, he went to Arts College at Nashik where he took the degree of BA hons in 1947 in Sanskrit and Prakrit. During this time he supported himself by taking a job as a superintendent of a Jain Svetambara Hostel and thus coming in contact with the Svetambara community for the first time.
Padmanabh Jaini | Early life and education
He was a brilliant student and topped state matriculation examination in the year 1949 from Ballygunge Government High School. He then joined Presidency College Calcutta and graduated in history by getting highest marks and was given prestigious Eshan scholarship awarded for the highest marks in West Bengal. Fellow students that year included Amartya Sen and Sukhamoy Chakravarty. He went to England to continue his higher studies from Queen's College, Oxford University. He graduated in modern history specialising in the English civil war. He worked closely with his teachers like Christopher Hill and Keith Thomas. He became friends with his batchmates Raphael Samuel and Peter Sedgwick.
Partha Sarathi Gupta | Early life
While preparing for his final M.Sc. examination at Presidency College, Kolkata, Atul had to interrupt his studies for his political commitment. The College and its hostel were humming with his radical associates, all future celebrities mostly in scientific research, like Satyendra Nath Bose, Megh Nad Saha, Jnan Ghosh, Jnan Mukherjee, Sishir Mitra, Sushil Acharya, Sailen Ghosh, Harish Simha, Jatin Sheth, Hiralal Ray.
Atulkrishna Ghosh | Early life
He was born in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh on 17 June 1961 into a family of lawyers. He received his early education at St. Mary's Academy, Meerut, which is affiliated to the Indian School Certificate (I.S.C.) Board. He joined B.Com (Honours) at the University of Allahabad and graduated in 1982. Later he joined Meerut College, for his legal studies and obtained his law degree from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut.he is now living in allahabad.
Pankaj Mithal | Early life and education
Sharma, had founded an informal school centered around "nationalist education" to educate the young activists in their nation's heritage. With the support of a wealthy philanthropist and ardent Congress nationalist, Shiv Prasad Gupta, the Kashi Vidyapith was inaugurated by Gandhi in Benares as a national institution of higher education on 10 February 1921. Among the first students of the new institution, Shastri graduated with a first-class degree in philosophy and ethics from the Vidyapith in 1925. He was given the title "Shastri" ("scholar"). The title was a bachelor's degree awarded by the institution but it stuck as part of his name.
Lal Bahadur Shastri | Gandhi's disciple (1921–1945)
In the year 1924, he was the student from Maroigaon Primary school who topped the Darrang Scholarship exam when he was studying only in class three. He received Khagendra Narayan award when he topped Assam Scholarship Exam and he was studying in Sixth standard of Patharighat High school. He passed his matriculation exam from Mangaldoi Govt. School by holding 1st division and got letter marks in two subjects in the year 1936. In the year 1940, he passed B.A. exam from Cotton College. For further education he went to Calcutta University to acquire M.A. degree. He passed M.A. in 2nd class 1st place in the year 1944.
Atul Chandra Barua | Education
He joined Presidency College in Madras (now Chennai) the following year, graduated in 1875, and the same year was appointed a lecturer there. He was transferred to the Government College, Mangalore, and after three years resigned his post. Subsequently, he joined the Salem Municipal College as a lecturer in English and mathematics.
C. Vijayaraghavachariar | Early years
He graduated from Colgate University with a major in European history and a minor in philosophy. During college he spent a semester at Chicago's Loyola University.
Jay Chandrasekhar | Early life and education
After his early education, he moved to Cuttack High School (later known as Ravenshaw Collegiate School) which offered English education. In 1864, he passed the entrance examination and went to Calcutta University. In spite of extremely challenging conditions he lived in Calcutta for almost fifteen years, from 1866 to 1881. In 1870, he became the first Odia to complete his B.A. He continued his studies at Calcutta and earned his M.A. in 1873, and an LL.B degree in 1878, thus becoming the first scholar from Orissa to be thus educated.
Madhusudan Das | Early life and education
College in Muzaffarpur, where he was influenced by the faculty who carried on the legacy of nationalist leaders who had taught at that college a generation earlier, such as Dr. Rajendra Prasad, India's first President (1950–62), Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, a Hindi nationalist poet, and J.B. Kripalani, President of Indian National Congress at the time of the country's independence in 1947. Sahu received his Bachelor's degree in Political Science (honors) and History from Bihar University in India, his Master's degrees in Political Science from Bihar University and the University of Chicago, and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago.
Sunil Sahu | Introduction
Chandranath was born on 31 August 1844 in Koikala village at Hooghly district, Bengal Presidency, British India. He was the second son of Kashinath Basu and had 3 sisters. Chandranath studied at the Hedore School, a missionary institute for a while, before dropping out due to a fear of being baptized; he then joined the Oriental Seminary especially because it had a teacher who took care of English pronunciation among the students. He pursued his B.A. (1862-1865) from Presidency College on an economic scholarship provided by Department of Public Instruction and went on to secure fifth place in the First AArts examination, before eventually topping the list of graduates in 1865.
Chandranath Basu | Early life and education
After studying Economics, English Literature and History at the graduation level at Bhopal University, Shastri studied ancient Indian History at the MA level at the centre for Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi where he played an important role in building the Free Thinkers movement among the freshers of 1978.
Lalit Shastri | Education and early career
He has done MBBS from Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal and LLB from Narmada Mahavidyalaya, Hoshangabad.
Sitasharan Sharma | Education
He then returned to the University of Nebraska for a master's degree in Educational Administration, which he completed in 2001.
Mahabir Pun | Early life and education
After Mehrotra graduated from Allahabad University, his father expected him to join the Indian Administrative Service. However, he wanted to become an academic and won two fellowships to study abroad, first to obtain a master's degree in Economics at a well-known radical university in New York city, The New School for Social Research. Here he was taught by well-known economists, like Edward J. Nell, Robert Heilbroner, Ross Thomson, and Gita Sen. Mehrotra then moved to Cambridge University to do a PhD in Economics.
Santosh Mehrotra | Early life and education
Singh studied at Mayo College, Ajmer. He received his master's degree in Sanskrit from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, where he studied with the famous grammarian, Vagish Shastri. He was a scholar of Sanskrit, Veda and Purana.
Vibhuti Narayan Singh | Education
After doing his B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur in 1988, he got enrolled at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities for M.S. program. He then received his Ph.D. and worked as a research associate under Tayfun Tezduyar.
Sanjay Mittal | Early life and education
He was vice-president of the Students Federation of India (SFI), which is politically linked to the Communist Party of India (Marxist), at the time of its formation in 1970 in Thiruvananthapuram.
N. Ram | Early life and education
from the University of Allahabad in 1914, with first merit position in the first class.
Gopinath Kaviraj | Early life and education
He completed high school in 1979 and was one of the top 10 matriculants nationally, which afforded him bursaries and scholarships that led him to complete a university degree. He started his tertiary education at the University of the Western Cape in 1980, but due to delays from being politically active, he ended up completing his BA (Bachelor of Arts) degree through the University of Cape Town a few years later.
Ebrahim Patel | Education
He was the first alumnus of Daly College to pass. He obtained his B.A. degree in 1899 and M.A. degree 2 years later from the Muir Central College, Allahabad.
Madhav Vinayak Kibe | Education
He did his schooling from Perks Matriculation Higher Secondary School and completed his graduation in electronics and communications engineering from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore. He worked for three years at Focus Academy for Career Enhancement before joining the IIM Ahmedabad to pursue an PGDM in 2013. In an interview with Rediff.com, he said that he joined the party when he was 18.
Ramachandran Govindarasu | Early life & education
He attended Acharya Patha Shaala in Basavanagudi and graduated in Bachelor of Arts (BA) in music.
Anoor Anantha Krishna Sharma | Early life and background
Maheshwari was born at Jaipur and educated at Ewing Christian College in Allahabad, intending to pursue a career in medicine. At Ewing, Maheshwari came under the mentorship of Winfield Dudgeon, and changed his studies from medicine to science. He received is Bachelor of Science (1925), Master of Science (1931), and Doctor of Science (1931) degrees, all under Dudgeon's influence. Maheshwari was an atheist.
Panchanan Maheshwari | Education
degree (Hons) from Pachaiyappa's College in Chennai. He then earned an MA degree in Economics and Politics from the same college. He worked as an English teacher in Pachaiyappa High School. Later he quit the teaching job and began involving himself in journalism and politics.
C. N. Annadurai | Early life
Moolgavkar was born on 14 August 1920 in Bombay. He attended the St. Mary's School, Mumbai and the St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. Moving to the United Kingdom for higher education, he attended the Malvern College. He was studying there when World War II broke out.
Hrushikesh Moolgavkar | Early life and education
Although he showed promise in Mathematics, he took Sanskrit, the classical language of India, because of his desire to study ancient Indian history. He joined Calcutta University for his post-graduation studies in Ancient History and Culture, obtaining a First Class M.A. in 1920. He was awarded a Gold Medal in the Religion Section and overall had stood first in the University.
Prabodh Chandra Bagchi | Early life and education
Sharma was born in 1932, in Bawal, Haryana. He attended Meerut College where he graduated in drawing and paintings in 1951. Sharma earned The National Diploma in Fine Arts in 1958 from Delhi Polytechnic with First Class and Distinction. From 1964 to 1966, Sharma attended Columbia University and Art Students League of New York as a Fulbright scholar where he completed his postgraduate studies in Fine Arts and Art History.
Om Prakash Sharma (artist) | Early life and education
Sharma hails from New Delhi. Mrinalini did her schooling in Carmel Convent School, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi. Thereafter she did her graduation from Jesus and Mary College, Delhi (University of Delhi).
Mrinalini Sharma | Early life and education
Chaudhuri was born in Calcutta and spent his childhood in Kolkata and Delhi. In his early life, he was also a pianist and a general musician. He sat for the entrance examination for the University of London and studied history at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University College London, Birkbeck College, and the London School of Economics. His teachers included Arthur Llewellyn Basham, Cyril Philips, William G. Beasley, C. R. Boxer, Bernard Lewis, Eric Hobsbawm, G.J. Renier, Michael Oakeshott, and Karl Popper. In 1959, he was the first undergraduate since Bernard Lewis in 1936 to obtain First Class Honours in Final BA Examinations in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Kirti N. Chaudhuri | Early life and education
He was born in Mukundgarh, Rajasthan, India. He studied at Hindi Vidya Bhavan and earned a bachelor's degree from VJTI, University of Mumbai and a master's degree from the University of Southern California.
Hareesh Tibrewala | Early life and education
Noorani was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1930. He attended a Jesuit school, St. Mary's, and got his law degree from Government Law College, Mumbai.
A. G. Noorani | Early life and education
Vivek Agnihotri was born in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh to Sharda Agnihotri and Dr. Prabhu Dayal Agnihotri. He studied at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication before enrolling at Harvard Extension School for a Certificate of Special Studies in Administration and Management. In interviews with media, he has also mentioned Bhopal School of Social Sciences and Jawaharlal Nehru University among his "almae matres".
Vivek Agnihotri | Early life and education
In 1955 he had completed his MBBS from Calcutta University. In 1965 he had gone to England to do FRCS from Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, England.
Saroj Gupta | Early life and education