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Nabinchandra Sen

Died in 1909

Nabinchandra Sen was born on 10 February 1847 in Noapara, near Chittagong, into a Baidya family. After the entrance examination in 1863 at Chittagong and a bachelor's degree obtained in Calcutta in 1868, he taught briefly at the Hare School, then entered the colonial administration as a deputy magistrate, until his retirement in 1904. He rendered the Bhagavad Gita into Bengali verse, wrote lives of Christ and of Cleopatra, and an autobiography that describes the society and administration of his time. He died in Calcutta on 23 January 1909.

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