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'''Brajendra Kishore Roy Chowdhury''' (1874 AD - 1957 AD;<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Raychowdhuri,_Acharya_Brajendra_Kishore|title=Raychowdhuri, Acharya Brajendra Kishore - Banglapedia}}</ref> Bengali Year: 1281-1364 <ref>(1281-1364 Bengali Year http://www.thedailystar.net/gouripur-house-needs-urgent-attention-35277)</ref>) was a patron of Indian classical music and national education of the Indian national movement.<br />
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==Background==<br />
He was the [[zamindar]] of [[Gouripur, Bangladesh|Gouripur]] in [[Mymensingh district|Mymensingh]], Bengal. His son was Pandit Birendra Kishore Roy Chaudhuri, the eminent sitar player, a founder of the music department of [[Rabindra Bharati University]], [[Calcutta]] and author of ''Indian Music and Mia Tansen''.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}<br />
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==Work==<br />
He was one of the principal patrons of the [[National Council of Education]] that later became [[Jadavpur University]], [[Calcutta]]. He was a member of the Floud Commission in 1939.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}<br />
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==Writings==<br />
* Marxism and the Indian Ideal (1941)<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Dawn (Bengali educational society)]]<br />
* [[National Council of Education]]<br />
* [[Jadavpur University]]<br />
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