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| name = <!-- include middle initial, if not specified in birth_name -->Kshitimohan Sen<br />
| image = Kshitimohan Sen.jpg<br />
| alt = Photo of Kshitimohan Sen with Rabindranath Tagore<br />
| caption = Kshitimohan Sen with [[Rabindranath Tagore]]<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date |df=yes|1880|11|30}} <br />
| birth_place = Dhaka [[Bikrampur]] [[Now Munshiganj]] East Bengal (now Bangladesh), [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1960|03|12|1880|11|30}} <br />
| death_place = [[Shantiniketan]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]<br />
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| occupation = Professor, writer<br />
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'''Kshitimohan Sen''' (2 December 1880 – 12 March 1960) was an Indian scholar, writer, a [[Sanskrit]] professor and an M.A. in Sanskrit from Queen's College, Benares. He was born in a [[Baidya]] family hailing from Sonarang in [[Bengal Presidency]] (now in Bangladesh). He started his working life at the Department of Education, Chamba State. In 1908, at the call of [[Rabindranath Tagore]], he joined Brahmacharyashram. Later he performed responsibility of Adhyaksha of Vidyabhaban. He was the first Deshikottam (1952) of Vishwa Bharati. He was an acting ''[[Chancellor (education)|Upacharyas]]'' of [[Visva-Bharati University]] (1953–1954).<ref name="Kshitimohan Sen (1880-1960) VB">{{cite web|title=Kshitimohan Sen (1880-1960)|url=http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/GreatMasters/Contents/KSen.htm|publisher=Visva-Bharati University|access-date=18 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110701041934/http://visva-bharati.ac.in/GreatMasters/Contents/KSen.htm|archive-date=1 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> He is the maternal grandfather of [[Amartya Sen]].<ref name="Honorary Degree Citation: Amartya Sen">{{cite web|title=Honorary Degree Citation: Amartya Sen|url=http://www.wits.ac.za/alumni/alumnirecognition/honorarydegreecitations/3607/amartyasen.html|publisher=University of the Witwatersrand|access-date=18 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813151015/http://www.wits.ac.za/alumni/alumnirecognition/honorarydegreecitations/3607/amartyasen.html|archive-date=13 August 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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[[Amartya Sen]] has written at length about Kshitimohan Sen and the latter's relation with Rabindranath Tagore in his memoir ''[[Home in the World]]''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sen |first=Amartya |title=Home in the world: a memoir |date=2022 |publisher=Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=978-1-324-09161-5 |location=New York, NY}}</ref>''.''<br />
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== Books ==<br />
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* Kabir (1910–11)<br />
* Bharatiya Madhyayuger Sadhanar Dhara (1930)<br />
* Dadu (1935)<br />
* Bharater Sangskrti (1943)<br />
* Banglar Sadhana (1945)<br />
* Yuga Guru Rammohan (1945)<br />
* Jatibhed (1946)<br />
* Banglar Baul (1947)<br />
* Hindu Sangskrtir Svarup (1947)<br />
* Bharater Hindu-Mussalman Yukta Sadhana (1949)<br />
* Prachin Bharate Nari (1950)<br />
* Chinmay Banga (1957)<br />
* Hinduism (1961) <br />
* Sadhak O Sadhana (2003)<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Kshitimohan Sen |sopt=t}}<br />
* {{Official website|http://www.visva-bharati.ac.in/GreatMasters/Contents/KSen.htm|Biography at Visva-Bharati University's official website}}<br />
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[[Category:1880 births]]<br />
[[Category:1960 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Academic staff of Visva-Bharati University]]<br />
[[Category:Bengali historians]]<br />
[[Category:Scholars from Varanasi]]<br />
[[Category:Scholars from West Bengal]]<br />
[[Category:People from Sonarang]]</div>TawnyaBirdwood7