Rabindra Kumar Dasgupta
- Rabindra Kumar Dasgupta was an eminent scholar who studied English Literature and received his Ph.D. from University of Calcutta, and then his D.Phil. from Oxford University. After a teaching career in English in Hindu College, Presidency College, and then Jadavpur University and University of Calcutta, he joined the Department of Modern Indian Languages, University of Delhi, in 1962 and continued teaching there till his retirement in 1977. He was also Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He served as Director of National Library from 1977-1980. He then joined the Indology Department of Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture as Vivekananda Professor. He was a regular contributor to The Statesman and to Desh. Some of R.K. Dasgupta’s noted publications are English Poets on India and Other Essays, Revolt in East Bengal, East-West Literary Relations, Swami Vivekananda’s Vedantic Socialism, Vedanta in Bengal, Kamala Lecture: Vedanta in the West, Philosophy and Philosophers, and Rabindranath Tagore’s Ideal of Internationalism. He edited numerous books such as Rabindranath Tagore and William Butler Yeats: The Story of a Literary Friendship, Goethe on Indian Literature, George Gilbert Aime Murray, Miguel Angel Asturias, Bankimchandra Chatterje: Vandemataram, Michael Madhusudan Dutta, and Our National Anthem. His Letters to the Editor have also been compiled in a separate volume.
