Girish Chandra Sen was born in 1835. He was a Bengali religious scholar and translator. He was a Brahmo Samaj missionary and was known for being the first publisher of the Qur’an in the Bengali language in 1886.
Sen was born in a Baidya family in the village of Panchdona in Narayanganj District in Bengal (now part of Narsingdi District in Bangladesh). He studied at Pogose School in Dhaka.
On completion of his studies, he returned to Kolkata and engaged in the translation of Islamic scriptures. After about five years (1881–1886) of studies, he produced an annotated Bengali version of the Qur’an via Persian.
