Gautam chattopadhyay biography sample paper

Street-fighting Historian: The Life of Gautam Chattopadhyay (1924-2006) Gautam Chattopadhyay was born on 9 December 1924.

His father, Kshitish Prosad Chattopadhyay, was an eminent anthropologist, a student of WHR Rivers and the founder of the Department of Anthropology, University of Calcutta. Gautam’s mother was Manjushree.

Short biography sample

Though he never flaunted his pedigree, Gautam was proud of being descended from reformers and modernizers like Raja Manmohun Roy, Pandit Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar (on his father’s side) and Dwarkanath Tagore (on his mother’s side).

Gautam’s induction to politics, Indian nationalism, and leftism were partly through his father. Kshitish Prasad had been a friend of Subhas Chandra Bose, and when Bose decided not to be an ICS, his friend followed suit. Returning to India, Kshitish joined Calcutta University, but after the Swarajya Party won the Calcutta Corporation elections, became Education Officer at the