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Benoy Kumar Sarkar (sometimes Binoy Kumar Sarkar) (1887–1949) was an Indian social scientist, professor, and nationalist. He founded several institutes in Calcutta, including the Bengali Institute of Sociology, Bengali Asia Academy, Bengali Dante Society, and Bengali Institute of American Culture.

Benoy Kumar Sarkar বিনয় কুমার সরকার
Photo of Sarkar from the March–April 1917 issue of The Hindusthanee Student.
Born	26 December 1887 Malda, British India
Died	24 November 1949(1949-11-24) (aged 61) Washington D.C., United States
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Social scientist

Early life and education

Binoy Kumar Sarkar was born in Malda Town, in Bengal Presidency . He started his early education in Malda Zilla School. Sarkar entered the University of Calcutta at the age of 13 after standing first at the entrance examination from Malda Zilla School,[1] while he graduated in 1905, at 18, with dual degrees in English and history. The following year he received his master's degree.

Career

In 1925 Sarkar started as a lecturer at the Department of Economics of University of Calcutta. He praised Nazism as "form of benevolent dictatorship", and advocated the establishment of a fascist dictatorship in India.[2] In 1947 he became a professor and head of the department. He died on a trip to the United States in Washington, DC, in November 1949.

Selected publications

Sarkar wrote in five languages, his native Bengali, English, German, French and Italian,[3] publishing a large volume of work on a variety of topics, including 53 books and booklets in English alone, his written production amounting in all to some 30 000 pages.[4] A complete list of his publications is contained in Bandyopadhyay's book The Political Ideas of Benoy Kumar Sarkar.[5]

• 1914/1921 The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology[6]
• 1916 The beginning of Hindu culture as world-power (A.D. 300-600)[7]
• 1916 Chinese Religion Through Hindu Eyes[8]
• 1918 Hindu achievements in exact science a study in the history of scientific development[9]

In 1919, he authored a study in the American Political Science Review presenting a "Hindu theory of international relations" which drew on thinkers such as Kautilya, Manu and Shookra, and the text of the Mahabharata.[10][11] In 1921, he authored a Political Science Quarterly study presenting a "Hindu Theory of the State."[11] According to Barry Buzan and Amitav Acharya, Sarkar's works "may be the first major IR contributions by an Indian, and one of the first modern efforts to develop an indigenous Non-Western theory of IR."[11]

Notes

References

• Sen, Satadru (2015) "Benoy Kumar Sarkar. Restoring the nation to the world", Taylor and Francis: London. ISBN 9781317410676
• Behn, Wolfgang (2004) "Benoy Kumar Sarkar: 1887-1949" Concise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus, 1665-1980: An international who's who in Islamic studies from its beginnings down to the twentieth century (Volume Three (N-Z)) Koninklijke Brill: Leiden, Netherlands. ISBN 90-04-14189-8
• Sinha, Vineeta (2007) "Sarkar, Benoy Kumar (1887–1949)" in Ritzer, George (ed.) (2007) Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Blackwell Publishing: Malden, MA. ISBN 978-1-4051-2433-1
• Sarkar, Ida (1977) "My life with Prof. Benoy Kumar Sarkar", compiled and translated from the German text by Indira Palit. Prabhat: Calcutta. (BEPI, 1994. The Natl. bibliogr. of Indian literature / gen. ed. B.S. Kesavan ; V.Y. Kulkarni, 1962, vol. I, p. 246. NUC pre-1956)

External links

• Benoy Kumar Sarkar materials in the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)

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