Kshitimohan Sen

Sen, Kshitimohan  educationist and writer, was born on 2 December 1880 in Benares, son of Bhubanmohan Sen, a physician whose ancestral home was in Vikrampur, Dhaka. Kshitimohan completed his MA in Sanskrit from Calcutta University in 1902 and got the title of 'Shastri'. He also accompanied Rabindranath during his travels in India and China. From 1953-1954 he was a temporary vice-chancellor of Visva-Bharati.

Kshitimohan received the Rabindra Memorial Gold Medal (1942) and the first Deshikottam from Visva-Bharati, the Mahatma Gandhi Prize (1953) from Wardhar Hindi Language Publicity Society, the Murarka Prize (1953) from Hindi Literary Conference of Proyag and Sarojini Basu Gold Medal (1954) from Calcutta University. He died on 12 March 1960.