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|name=Haridas Bhattacharya<br />
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|birth_date=1891<br />
|birth_place = [[Bhatpara]], Calcutta, [[Bengal Presidency]]<br />
|alma_mater=[[Scottish Church College]] <br/> [[University of Calcutta]] <br />
|spouse = [[Tapobala Devi]]<br />
|death_date={{death year and age|1956|1891}}<br />
|death_place = Calcutta, India<br />
|occupation= Philosopher, Educationist, Author <br />
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'''Haridas Bhattacharyya''' (1891–1956) was a Bengali Indian philosopher, author and educationist, known for his works on comparative religion.<ref name=Banglapedia_article>{{cite book |last=Roy |first=Pradip Kumar |year=2012 |chapter=Bhattacharya, Haridas |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Bhattacharya,_Haridas |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]]}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
He was born in an orthodox Brahmin family on 7 November 1891, at [[Bhatpara]], [[West Bengal]] to Pandit Ramprasanna Bhattacharyya, a scholar at the princely court of Krishnanagar and a Sanskrit scholar.<ref name=Banglapedia_article/><br />
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==Education==<br />
After school, Bhattacharyya joined Calcutta's [[Scottish Church College]] from where he graduated in 1912. He obtained a master's degree in philosophy from the [[University of Calcutta]] in 1914, and a law degree in 1917. During this time, he passed the poetry examination of the Board of Sanskrit Studies. He also won the Roychand-Premchand scholarship and the Mowat gold medal at the Scottish Church College for his thesis on the ''Evolution of the Soul''.<ref name=Banglapedia_article/><br />
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==Career==<br />
Bhattacharyya joined the Scottish Church College in 1915, as a lecturer of philosophy and logic.<ref>''Teaching Staff: Philosophy'' in ''175th Year Commemoration Volume''. Scottish Church College, April 2008. page 574</ref> Later in 1917, he began teaching philosophy and experimental psychology at the University of Calcutta. After the [[University of Dhaka]] was established in 1921, he joined the department of philosophy as a [[Reader (academic rank)|Reader]]. He served as editor of the journal ''Dhaka University Studies'' and as a member of the editorial board of ''Philosophical Quarterly Journal''.<ref name=Banglapedia_article/><br />
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Bhattacharyya delivered many prestigious lectures such as the ''Stephanos – Nirmalendu Ghosh lecture''s on ''Foundations of Living Faiths'' at the University of Calcutta (1933–34) and the ''Madanmohan Malavya Commemoration lecture'' at the [[Banaras Hindu University]]. After the partition of 1947, he relocated to the department of [[Indology]] at the Banaras Hindu University. He died in Calcutta on 20 January 1956.<ref name=Banglapedia_article/><br />
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==Works==<br />
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===Books===<br />
* ''The Foundations of Living Faiths – An Introduction to Comparative Religion'', Calcutta, Motilal Banarsidass, 1938 – [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=3419484 Cambridge University Press review], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.61322 Full text in the Internet Archive]<br />
* Editor of the six volume series ''The Cultural Heritage of India'' published by The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Calcutta, 1936–1940; 2nd enlarged and revised ed. 1958-1962 [https://archive.org/search.php?query=cultural+heritage+of+India Full text in the Internet Archive]<ref name=Banglapedia_article/><br />
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===Journals in which he published===<br />
*''[[The Philosophical Quarterly]]''<br />
*''Review of Philosophy and Religion''<br />
*''Religions of the World''<br />
*''Dacca University Journal''<br />
*''Dacca University Studies''<br />
*''[[Calcutta Review]]''<br />
*''Visva-Bharati Quarterly''<br />
*''Indian Journal of Psychology''<br />
*''Journal of the Madras University''<ref name=Banglapedia_article/><br />
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