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'''Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya''' (1896–1974) was a distinguished scholar of [[Sanskrit]] from [[India]]. A scholar of Sanskrit, [[Veda]], grammar, [[Pali]], [[Prakrit]] and [[philology]], he was born on 27 October 1896 in village Nimta of [[North 24 Parganas]] in what was then [[Bengal]]. He came from an illustrious family of ''Kulina'' [[Brahman]]s of Deshmukho in District [[Hooghly District|Hooghly]]. The Indian writer [[Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay]] belonged to the same family and Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya inherited the spirit of [[Bengal Renaissance|Indian renaissance]] from him.

==Education==
Chattopadhyaya studied in a number of schools and passed the matriculation examination of the [[Calcutta University]] in 1913 from [[Hindu School]] of [[Calcutta]]. He then attended the [[Presidency College, Calcutta]] for Intermediate examination and passed in 1915. He then migrated to the United Province of [[Agra]] and [[Oudh]] and passed the [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] examination of [[Allahabad University]] (1917) and [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] in [[Sanskrit]] from Queen’s College, [[Benares]] (1919). He also passed the M.A. Examination in [[Veda]] from [[Calcutta University]] in 1921 and Vedant in 1922. He in his college days became an intimate friend of [[Subhas Chandra Bose]] who later became a prominent figure in Indian politics and the [[Indian independence movement]]. Chattopadhyaya was a student of [[Ganganath Jha|Dr. Ganganath Jha]].<ref>Kashi Ki Panditya Parampara (Second Edition,)[[Baldev Upadhyaya]], Vishwavidyalaya Prakashan, Varanasi.</ref>

==Career==
Chattopadhyaya joined [[University of Allahabad]] as a lecturer in the department of [[Sanskrit]] in 1924. In the year 1950 he was promoted to reader and from 1956 for about a couple of years he acted as professor of Sanskrit. Later he became Director, Research Institute at [[Sampurnanand Sanskrit University]], Benares. As the director, he was in a position to guide research exclusively.

Chattopadhyaya was the editor of book series [[Sarasvati Bhavana Granthamala]] and famous Sanskrit Journal, [[Sarasvati Susama]]. He was also appointed as a special scholar for comparative study of [[Veda]] and [[Avesta]] by the Ministry of Education, [[Govt. of India]] at Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, [[Tirupati (city)|Tirupati]]. The [[Calcutta University]] appointed him Stephan’s Nirmalendu Ghosh Lecturer on Comparative Religion in 1960 (In that period he was on leave from [[Sampurnanand Sanskrit University]]).<ref>Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya Felicitation Vol.-II, Journal of Ganganath Jha Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, Vol. XXVIII, Jan-April, 1972, Allahabad</ref>

==Disciples==
He has produced many scholars, among them are
# [[Vagish Shastri|B P T Vagish Shastri]]
# [[Vidya Niwas Mishra]]
# [[Govind Chandra Pande]]
# Govardhan Rai
# [[Kamlesh Dutt Tripathi]]

==Work==
Chattopadhyaya had been actively connected with All India Oriental Conference since its third session held in [[Madras]] in December, 1924. He presided over its Veda and Indo-Aryan section in the ninth session held at [[Trivandrum]] in 1937 and its Veda section in the eighteenth session held at Annamalainagar in 1955. He presided over the [[Philology]] section of Akhil Bhartiya Hindi Sahitya Sammelana held at [[Karachi]] in December 1946.<ref>[[A. B. Keith]], ''History of Sanskrit Literature'', [[Motilal Banarsidass]], Delhi.</ref>

==Honor==
Certificate of Merit, [[President of India]], 1966.

==Book authored==
# Eshakenopanishad (First Edition 1916), Reprinted in University Bi-Centenary Series, (Ed. B.N. Mishra), Vol VIII, [[Sampurnanand Sanskrit University]], 1992.
# Vedavittaprakasika, 1966.
# Studies in Vedic and Indo-Iranian Religion and Literature, (Ed.[[Vidya Niwas Mishra]]), 1976.

==References==
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