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Haricharan Bandopadhayaya, lexicographer •
Rajshekhar Basu, major contributor for scientific terms in Bengali and lexicographer •
Chandril Bhattacharya, born in Kolkata •
Girindrasekhar Bose, first non-European correspondent of Freud •
Nirmal Kumar Bose, anthropologist, associate of Gandhi •
Suniti Kumar Chatterji, linguist •
Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya, social philosopher •
Kirti N. Chaudhuri, historian •
Pramatha Chaudhuri, creator of modern Bengali prose (chalit bhasha) along with Tagore •
Harinath De, linguist •
Romesh Chunder Dutt, historian •
Anil Kumar Gain, fellow of the Royal Society •
Biraja Sankar Guha, anthropologist •
Ranajit Guha, subaltern theorist •
R. C. Majumdar, historian •
Vina Mazumdar, women's studies academic •
Rajendralal Mitra, first Indian to work with Indologists •
Bhudev Mukhopadhyay, earliest educationist •
Niharranjan Ray, historian •
Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri, Indian historian •
Tapan Raychaudhuri, professor of history at Oxford University •
Raja Ram Mohan Roy, first Bengali prose writer •
Jadunath Sarkar, historian •
Sumit Sarkar, historian •
Susobhan Sarkar, historian •
Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize awardee in Economics •
Dinesh Chandra Sen, historian of Bengali literature and folklorist •
Sukumar Sen, linguist •
Hara Prasad Shastri, historian of Bengali language and culture •
Maniklal Sinha, novelist, historian and archaeologist of west Rarh •
Surajit Chandra Sinha, anthropologist •
Dineshchandra Sircar, epigraphist •
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, literature theorist. •
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, creator of Standard Bengali prose (sadhu bhasha)
Scholars and polymaths •
Asima Chatterjee, scholar of chemistry •
Suniti Kumar Chatterji, linguist •
Amlan Datta, economist, Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati •
Radhakanta Deb, linguist •
Anil Kumar Gain, scholar, mathematician •
Prithwindra Mukherjee, scholar of Indian history, philosophy, religion and culture •
Ashis Nandy, political psychologist •
Ramendra Sundar Tribedi, scientist ==Education==