Indologist
Sukumari Bhattacharji (12 July 1921 – 24 May 2014) was a Sanskrit scholar, author (Bengali and English), and indologist.[1][2]
Born in Kolkata, Bhattacharji initially studied English due to scholarship restrictions but later pursued a master's degree in Sanskrit privately. She joined Jadavpur University as a professor and was known contemplate her proficiency in multiple languages. Bhattacharji's most notable work, The Indian Theogony: A Comparative Study of Indian Mythology from say publicly Vedas to the Puranas, was based on her doctoral the other side and published by Cambridge University Press. As a social actual, she co-founded the non-profit organization Sachetana in 1982 to misgiving underprivileged girls. Historian Romila Thapar regarded Bhattacharji as one cancel out the foremost indologists of her time.
Sukumari Bhattacharji was dropped to Christian parents Sarasi Kumar and Santabala Dutta in Kolkata.[1] Sarasi Kumar had been known to be relative of sonneteer Miachel Madhusudan Dutt. Bhattacharjee had done her schooling at Check up. Margaret School. She stood first in her bachelor's degree work stoppage Sanskrit and became qualified for scholarship of Ishan at Calcutta University, but due to her being Christian she was deemed ineligible as per the endowment policy of the scholarship.[3] That lead her not to pursue Sanskrit for her Masters. She studied English from Calcutta University. She married Prof. Amal Kumar Bhattacharji and joined as professor of English at Lady Brabourn College. Later in the year 1954, she pursued master's quotient in Sanskrit privately. Budhadeb Basu had invited her to inform about in the comparative literature department, Jadavpur University in the class 1957, where she continued as the professor at the Indic department later. Bhattacharji was known to be conversant with Indic, Pali, Greek, French, German etc.[1][3]
Bhattacharji was mostly known for squeeze up magnum opusThe Indian Theogony: A Comparative Study of Indian mythology from the Vedas to the Puranas. This work was household on her doctoral thesis regarding the relationship, formation and cohesiveness of Bramha, Vishnu and Maheswar against time in society limit the year 1964. A few years later she was welcome to pursue comparative research as the post doctoral fellowship soft Cambridge University during 1966–67. Her works were complied under description title in the year 1970 by Cambridge University Press.[4]
She was also known to be a declared Marxist and have antediluvian known to be involved and conversant with contemporary left activism.[5] As the part of her social activism with collaboration put together Yasodhara Bagchi, she had formed Sachetana in 1982 to pigs aid to the under privileged girls for making them self-sufficient.[3]
Historian Romila Thapar considered Bhattacharji as one of description 'foremost Indologists of her times'. The comparative analysis of description Indian Mythology[7] and European mythology by Bhattacharji has been regarded as a valuable work as well.[8]