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Dhan Gopal Mukerji, socio-cultural critic and first successful Indian man of letters in the United States of America; winner of Newbery Medal (1928) Nirad C. Chaudhuri, polymath, historian and commentator on culture, and Commander of the Order of the British Empire [36] Dipendranath Bandyopadhyay, author [37]
Scottish Church College is a college affiliated by Calcutta University, India. It offers selective co-educational undergraduate and postgraduate studies and is the oldest continuously running Christian liberal arts and sciences college in Asia.
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[2] [1] A prolific author, he taught history at the Scottish Church College and University of Calcutta, and was nominated as an Officer d’ Academic by the Government of France. [1] [3] In the 1920s he was a supporter of the French contribution to Tagore's university project at Santiniketan (north of Calcutta). He later edited several books on ...
Alexander Duff (25 April 1806 – 12 February 1878), was a Scottish missionary in India; where he played a large part in the development of higher education.He was a Moderator of the General Assembly and convener of the foreign missions committee of the Free Church of Scotland and a scientific liberal reformer of anglicized evangelism across the Empire.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta was one of Urquhart's students, and according to William Sweet was much influenced by Urquhart. In 1928, Urquhart became Principal of the College, and started a two-year term as Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta. [5] Urquhart founded the Philosophical Society at Scottish Church College and established links with the Indian YMCA ...
Sums paid to Scottish commissioners and leading political figure have been described as bribes, but the existence of direct bribes is disputed. [68] The Scottish parliament voted on 6 January 1707, by 110 to 69, to adopt the Treaty of Union. The treaty confirmed the Hanoverian succession. The Church of Scotland and Scottish law and courts ...
The Rev. Professor Alexander Campbell Cheyne (1 June 1924 – 31 March 2006), commonly known as A. C. Cheyne, was one of the foremost Scottish scholars of Church History, teaching at New College, Edinburgh from 1958 until his retirement in 1986.