About this author
Sukumari Bhattacharji was born on 12 July 1921, in Kolkata. he was a Sanskrit scholar, author (Bengali and English), and indologist.
She had done her schooling at St. Margaret School. She stood first in her bachelor’s degree in Sanskrit and became qualified for a scholarship of Ishan at Calcutta University, but due to her being Christian, she was deemed ineligible as per the endowment policy of the scholarship. This leads her not to pursue Sanskrit for her Masters. She studied English at Calcutta University.
She was mostly known for her magnum opus ‘Indian Theogony: A Comparative Study of Indian Mythology from the Vedas to the Puranas’. This work was based on her doctoral thesis regarding the relationship, formation, and coherence of Bramha, Vishnu, and Maheswar against time in society in the year 1964.
She was also known to be a declared Marxist and has been known to be involved and conversant with contemporary left activism.