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{{Short description|Indian academic and scholar}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Brajendra Nath Seal
| image = Brajendranath_Seal.jpg
| caption = Brajendra Nath Seal
| birth_date = 3 September 1864
| birth_place = [[Haripal]], [[Hooghly district|Hoogly]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]], [[British India]]<br />{{Small|(now in [[West Bengal]], [[India]])}}
| death_date = 3 December 1938
| death_place = [[Calcutta]], British India
| occupation = Philosopher
| spouse =
| nationality = [[India]]n
}}

'''Sir Brajendra Nath Seal''' ({{lang-bn|ব্রজেন্দ্রনাথ শীল}}; 3 September 1864 – 3 December 1938) was a [[Bengali people|Bengali]] Indian [[humanism|humanist]] philosopher.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Seal, Brajendra Nath - Banglapedia|url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Seal,_Brajendra_Nath|access-date=2020-09-17|website=en.banglapedia.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Brajendra Nath Seal (1864-1938), by William Sweet|url=https://people.stfx.ca/wsweet/seal.html|access-date=2020-09-17|website=people.stfx.ca}}</ref> He served as the second vice chancellor of [[Mysore University]].

== Life ==
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Brajendranath Seal was born in [[Haripal]], [[Hooghly district|Hoogly District]] (in [[West Bengal]]), in 1864. His father Mohendranath Seal was one of the earliest followers of [[Auguste Comte|Comte]]an [[positivism]] in Bengal. As a student of philosophy at the General Assembly's Institution (now [[Scottish Church College, Calcutta]]), he became attracted to Brahmo theology. And along with his better-known classmate and friend Narendranath Dutta, the future [[Swami Vivekananda]], he regularly attended meetings of the [[Sadharan Brahmo Samaj]]. Later they would part ways with Dutta aligning himself with [[Keshub Chunder Sen]]'s New Dispensation (and later on to found his own religious movement, the [[Ramakrishna Mission]]) and Seal staying on as an initiated member.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}

Seal was the inaugural chair of philosophy at India's first graduate school in philosophy at the [[University of Calcutta]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Indian philosophy - 19th- and 20th-century philosophy in India and Pakistan|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Indian-philosophy|access-date=2020-09-17|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref> Seal was regarded as 'a versatile scholar in many branches of learning, both scientific and humanistic,' and in his major work ''The Positive Sciences of Ancient Hindus'' demonstrated 'interrelations among the ancient Hindu philosophical concepts and their scientific theories.'<ref name=":0" /> He was appointed as the principal of [[Krishnath College]] in [[Berhampore]].<ref>{{Cite journal|date=April 1892|title=V. Notices of Books - A Memoir on the Coefficients of Numbers. Being a Chapter in the Theory of Numbers. By Brajendranath Seal, M.A., Principal Berhampore College, Bengal. (Calcutta, Hare Press, 1891.)|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-royal-asiatic-society/article/abs/v-notices-of-books-a-memoir-on-the-coefficients-of-numbers-being-a-chapter-in-the-theory-of-numbers-by-brajendranath-seal-ma-principal-berhampore-college-bengal-calcutta-hare-press-1891/760C3C35C215347E84CCC817032600F9|journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society|language=en|volume=24|issue=2|pages=397|doi=10.1017/S0035869X00021857|issn=2051-2066}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VV8oAAAAYAAJ&dq=Brajendra+Nath+Seal+Baharampur&pg=PR33|title=The Calcutta Review|date=1888|language=en}}</ref>

Seal was the keynote speaker at the first session of the [[First Universal Races Congress]] of 1911 on 26 July 1911, which gathered speakers and attendees from across the world to discuss racial issues and encourage international cooperation. Part of his address included the declaration that<blockquote>We are assisting at a solemn function, the conferring of a new charter, the charter of the modern conscience, on each race and nation as a member of the world-system.... From this watch-tower of Humanity, we seem to hear the measureless tread of generations behind and before, to witness the universal march and procession of Humanity, at the opening of a new era...<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Biddiss|first=Michael D.|date=1 July 1971|title=The Universal Races Congress of 1911|url=https://doi.org/10.1177/030639687101300103|journal=Race|volume=13|issue=1|pages=37–46|doi=10.1177/030639687101300103|s2cid=143076765|via=Sage Journals}}</ref></blockquote>Michael Biddiss notes that Seal's opening words 'set the tone of effusion and euphoria' which pervaded much of the Congress as a whole.<ref name=":1" /> Seal served as the vice chancellor of Mysore University from 1921 and retired in 1930 following a paralytic stroke.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gupta |first=Sujata |last2=Gupta |first2=Prabir K. |last3=Gupta |first3=Supratim |date=2014 |title=Brajendra Nath Seal – a sesquicentenary birth anniversary tribute |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24099981 |journal=Current Science |volume=106 |issue=5 |pages=760–762 |issn=0011-3891}}</ref>

==Books==
* ''A Memoir on the Co-efficient of Numbers: A Chapter on the Theory of Numbers'' (1891)
* ''Neo-Romantic Movement in Bengali Literature'' (1890–91)
* ''A Comparative Study of Christianity and Vaishnavism'' (1899)
* ''New Essays in Criticism'' (1903)
* ''Introduction to Hindu Chemistry'' (1911)
* ''Positive Sciences of the Ancient Hindus'' (1915)
* ''Race-Origin'' (1911)
* ''Syllabus of Indian Philosophy'' (1924)
* ''Rammohan Roy: The Universal Man'' (1933)
* ''The Quest Eternal'' (1936)

==References==
<references />
*Kopf, David. 1979. ''The Brahmo Samaj and the Shaping of the Modern Indian Mind''. Princeton, NJ. Princeton University Press
*Scottish Church College Magazine (Year – 1999, 2000, and 2001.Volume – 87, 88, and 89).

==External links==
* William Sweet (2003), [http://people.stfx.ca/wsweet/seal.html''About Brajendra Nath Seal'']
* {{cite book |last=Roy |first=Pradip Kumar |year=2012 |chapter=Seal, Brajendra Nath |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Seal,_Brajendra_Nath |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}
* ICHHIMUDDIN SARKAR, [http://journals.mindamas.com/index.php/tawarikh/article/view/714/688 Acharya Brajendra Nath Seal’s Insights on Spiritualism and Humanity: Exposition and Reality], Tawarikh (International Journal for Historic Studies), Vol 8, No. 1(2016)

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