Founder of Banaras Sanskrit college
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Sanskrit College was founded on 1 January 1824, during the Governor-Generalship of Lord Amherst, based on a recommendation by HT James Prinsep and Thomas Babington Macaulay among others. Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya, the scholar of Sanskrit was the principal of the college for over 18 years.
Sanskrit College was founded on 1 January 1824, during the Governor-Generalship of Lord Amherst, based on a recommendation by HT James Prinsep and Thomas Babington Macaulay among others.
Secretaries:
1824–1832: W. A. Price
1832: Horace Hayman Wilson (offg)
1832–1833: Leftt. Todd
1833: Horace Hayman Wilson (offg)
1832–1839: A. Troyer
1835–1839: Ramkamal Sen
1836–1837: Radhakanta Dev (interim)
?: J. C. C. Sutherland (3 months)
1840–1841: T. A. Wise
1841–1851: Rasamoy Dutta
Principals
1851–1858: Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
1858–1864: Edward Byles Cowell
1864–1876: Prasanna Kumar Sarbadhikary
1876–1895: Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya
1895–1900: Nilmani Mukhopadhyaya
1900–1908: Haraprasad Shastri
1908–1910: Kaliprasanna Vidyaratna
1910–1920: Satish Chandra Vidyabhusan
1920–1923: Ashutosh Shastri
1924–1931: Aditya Nath Mukhopadhyay
1931–1942: Surendranath Dasgupta
1944–1946: Anantaprasad Banerjee Shastri
1947–1948: Jatindra Bimal Chaudhury
1948–1954: Sadananda Bhaduri
1954–1957: Prabodh Chandra Lahiri
1957–1967: Gaurinath Shastri
1967–1968: Kalicharan Shastri
1968–1969: Tarashankar Bhattacharya
1969–1983: Bishnupada Bhattacharya
1983: Munishwar Jha
1983–1985: Herambanath Chatterjee Shastri
1990–1994: Dilip Kumar Kanjilal
1997–1999: Sukomal Choudhury
1999–2000: Manjula Mitra
2000-2000: Pradip Kumar Majumdar
2007–2012: Anadi Kumar Kundu
2012–2016: Sanjukta Das
Vice Chancellors
2016–: Dilipkumar Mohanta
Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya, the scholar of Sanskrit was the principal of the college for over 18 years. He was made a Companion of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire (C.I.E.), and a member of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire.
He played a crucial role in colonial Bengal's educational reformation. He revived the tol system in Sanskrit education, and introduced titles or "Upadhi".
The institution rose to prominence during the principalship of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar in 1851, who admitted students from other than the brahmin caste. In particular the tol or traditional Indian training school model was incorporated as a department in the 1870s.
From 1824 until 1851 the College did not have the post of Principal but was headed by a Secretary. From 1851 the College was headed by a Principal.