Ramkamal Sen

Born at Garifa, Naihati town in North 24 pargana district. on the banks of the Hooghly River in a Baidya family, he proceeded to Kolkata in 1791 for his education. ==Career==

A self-made man, starting as a petty compositor earning eight rupees a month, "He worked for several years in a Hindustani press after which he was appointed as a clerk in the Asiatic Society". In 1812, he secured a job in Fort William College. Finally, he rose to be a Dewani of the Treasury, and treasurer of the Bengal Bank. ==Social works==

He was connected with many of the social activities of his time. When Hindu College was established in 1817, he was a member of its committee. After a failed first attempt to remove Derozio from the school for preaching Christianity, he also became principal of the newly established Sanskrit College for sometime. Sastri wrote: "Babu Ramkamal Sen acting as their mouthpeice, ... called a Committee meeting, and moved that Mr Derozios's manners and conduct was such as to injure the morals of the boys in touch with him and he should be removed from the staff of masters." He was also President of the Gaudiya Sabha, (a prominent association of Bengali Hindu ultra-conservatives). Along with Radhakanta Deb, he was appointed as an Indian member of the "Tea Committee" in 1834. In the same year he published an English-Bengalee dictionary in 2 volumes with 58,000 words which was commissioned by the Serampore Baptist Mission (1817–1834). Another famous book that he co-authored was Hitopadesha in 1820, a collection of fables modelled on Aesop's. == References ==