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 Dictionary of Indian Biography D to F

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Date transcribed2011-03-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Deb    
First Name(s)  Radha Kanta    
Titles  Sir    
Year of Birth  1784    
Year of Death  1867    
Entry  Born in Calcutta, March 11, 1784, son of Raja Gopi Mohan Deb,and great grandson of Munshi, afterwards Maharaja, Naba Krishna Deb, Persian Secretary and Diwan to Lord Clive : received his English education at Cumming's Calcutta Academy : studied Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian : his life was devoted to cultivating and disseminating knowledge : was the first modern Hindu to advocate home female education, zealously established native schools, and compiled in 36 years a comprehensive Sanskrit dictionary, which was acknowledged by learned European Societies, and by Queen Victoria with a medal. In religion he was rigidly conservative and strictly orthodox, while devoted to the cause of education : wrote a Bengali reader. He was a Director of the Hindu College : Secretary of the School-book Society, established in 1818: prominently connected with the Government Sanskrit College, and the Bengal Asiatic Society : Honorary Magistrate and Justice of the Peace for Calcutta in 1855 : President of the British Indian Association from 1851 until his death at Brindaban on April 19, 1867 : Raja Bahadur on July 10, 1837, and K.C.S.I. in 1866 : was an active supporter of all public movements.     
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