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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Baikuntha Nath Sen''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CIE}} (1843 – 1922) was a [[Bengalis|Bengali]] scholar, lawyer and philanthropist. His grandson [[Amarendra Nath Sen]] was a judge of [[Supreme Court of India]].<ref name=":1" /><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Sen was born in a [[Zamindar]] family of Alampur village in [[Bardhaman district]] in [[British India]]. His father Harimohan Sen came to [[Murshidabad district|Murshidabad]] in his early years and settled in [[Baharampur|Bahrampur]]. Sen completed his study from [[Krishnath College School]] in 1858 and entered into [[Presidency College, Kolkata]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://murshidabad.net/history/berhampore-topic-kncschool.htm|title=Krishnath College School|access-date=March 3, 2018}}</ref> He passed B.A. in 1863 and B.L in 1864 thereafter started practicing in the [[Calcutta High Court]] and Baharampur Judges Court. Sen was the legal advisor of [[Cossimbazar]] Royal Estate.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|title=Sansad Bangali Charitavidhan (Bengali)|last=Vol I|first=Subodh C. Sengupta & Anjali Basu|publisher=Sahitya Sansad|year=2002|isbn=81-85626-65-0|location=Kolkata|pages=367}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Sen achieved great popularity as a lawyer and orator. He was the first editor of ''Murshidabad Hitaishi'', a reputed weekly. He was a great patron of modern education and was associated with various social as well as political works. He was one of the top leaders of the [[Indian National Congress]] in [[Bengal]]. In 1916–17, he was elected Chairman of the Reception Committee of the session of the Indian national Congress held in [[Kolkata]].<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xdIoGQdclcwC&q=Baikuntha+Nath+Sen&pg=PA38|title=Encyclopaedia of Eminent Thinkers|last=K. S. Bharathi|year=1998|isbn=9788180696343|access-date=March 3, 2018}}</ref> Sen became the first unofficial Indian chairman of Berhampore Municipality, the then Murshidabad District Board which was established by [[Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://berhamporemunicipality.org/support/page/chairman.php|title=OUR TOWN IS NOT SO BIG AS OUR HEART IS !|access-date=March 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160830162952/http://www.berhamporemunicipality.org/support/page/chairman.php|archive-date=August 30, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GIAyDwAAQBAJ&q=Baikuntha+Nath+Sen&pg=PT261|title=Judges of the Supreme Court of India: 1950–1989|last=George H. Gadbois Jr.|date=2 May 2011|isbn=9780199088386|access-date=March 3, 2018}}</ref> Baikunthanath invested money to established Bengal Pottery Works along with Raja [[Manindra Chandra Nandy]].<ref name=":2" /><br />
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==Honour==<br />
In 1920, Sen was appointed a Companion of the [[Order of the Indian Empire]] (CIE) and became ''Roy Bahadur.''<br />
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