Prabodh Chandra Sen

Prabodh Chandra Sen was Born on 27 April 1897, he lived in village Chunta at Sarail of Brahmanbaria district. His father was Haradas Sen and his mother was Swarnamoyee Sen. He is an expert on the poetical meter, a historian, and a Tagore specialist

his primary education was at Giridhari Pathsala, Yusuf High English School and Comilla Zila School. He did his matriculation from Comilla Zila School in 1915, Intermediate in Arts from Comilla Victoria College in 1920, BA with Honours in history in 1924, and MA in Ancient Indian history and culture in 1927.

He had considerable interest in Bengali poetical meter or prosody. While still a college student he wrote a long article on the subject and with the approval of Satyendranath Dutta it was serialized in the Probashi.

For his contribution to literature and culture, Probodhchandra Sen received many awards at different times including Profulla Smriti Puraskar (1969), Bankimsmriti Puraskar (1975), Keshabchandra Gupta Smriti Puraskar (1978), ‘Desokottom’ title, DLit awarded by Kalyani University (1983), and many more.

He died at Santiniketan on 20 September 1986.