Suniti Kumar Chatterji Commemoration Volume (An Old and Rare Book)

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Professor SUNITI KUMAR CHATTERJI

(26 November 1890-29 May 1977)

Professor Suniti Kumar Chatterji the scion, the thinker and savant of Indian linguists, was born at Sibpur in Howrah near Calcutta on 26th November 1890. He had his school education in Motilal Sil's Free School, and College education ia Scottish Church College and Presidency College, Calcutta. He graduated with first class honours in English in 1911 and passed his M.A. in English with special papers in Old and Middle English and Germanic linguistics in 1913 standing first in first class.

He was appointed Professor of English at Vidyasagar College and joined the following year as Assistant Professor of English in the post-graduate department of the University of Calcutta. He was awarded the Jubilee Research Prize and Premchand Roychand Scholarship for his researches on some aspects of Bengali language for the period 1916-18.

In 1919 he was offered a Government of India State Scholar- ship for higher studies in linguistics in Europe. He joined the School of Oriental (And African) Studies, University of London. There his professors were Dr. L. D. Barnett, Professors Chambers and Grattan of University College (Old English. Gothic), Prof. Robin Flower (Old Irish), Prof. Daniel Jones. Sir E. Denison Ross and Dr. F. W. Thomas, Profs. Jules Block, Antoine Meillet, Paul Pelliot, Sean Prayluski. He was awarded D.Litt. for his work on the history of Bengali language under the supervision of Dr. I. D. Barnett, and published under the title "The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language' in 1926 by the University of Calcutta [Second Edition by George Allen and Unwin (in 3 vols.) 1970-72.].