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Biography of Ram Camul Sen
Name: Ram Camul Sen
Birth Date: 1783
Death Date: August, 1844
Place of Birth: India
Nationality: Bengalese
Gender: Male
Occupations: entrepreneur, intellectual
Ram Camul Sen
Ram Camul Sen (1783-1844) was a Bengali intellectual and entrepreneur. Part of a group that inaugurated the Bengal renaissance, he proved less a prolific writer and scholar and more a gifted organizer and administrator.A Kashatriya by caste and, according to his own account, a descendant of the medieval Bengali king Ballal Sena, Ram Camul Sen left a Hooghly village for Calcutta in 1790, at the age of 7. His father was proficient in Persian and secured clerical positions, and Ram Camul himself learned English, Sanskrit, and Persian in the manner of the sons of the Calcutta elite.Ram Camul found his first job in 1803, as a subordinate clerk's assistant in the Calcutta chief magistrate's office. The chief magistrate was evidently impressed with Ram Camul's industrious work habits. In 1804 two scholars associated with the Asiatic Society of Bengal invited Sen to work for the Hindoostanee Press as a compositor.Despite a very low …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…as an efficient, activist intellectual whom the British frequently employed to help manage their newly introduced institutions, especially educational facilities. During the last 20 years of his life, he became the most influential Asian in associations as diverse as the Hindu College and the Calcutta Mint. Largely as a result of such administrative endeavors, when Sen died in August 1844, he left an estate estimated at 1 million rupees. Further Reading There is only one full-length biography of Ram Camul Sen in English, Peary Chand Mitra, Life of Dewan Ram Camul Sen (1880). As with most figures of the 19th-century Bengali intelligentsia, aspects of Sen's life and career are continually referred to in numerous books on modern Indian history, but he has not been the subject of a serious scholarly monograph. Some attempt to update Sen's role in the light of modern scholarship is made in David Kopf, British Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance (1969).
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