Ashutosh Mukherjee Biography - Birth date, Achievements, Career, Family, Awards

Ashutosh Mukherjee was born on 29 June 1864 in Bobazar, Kolkata to a middle class Bengali Brahmin family. His father's name was Ganga Prasad Mukherjee and mother's name was Jagattini Devi. His father was a famous doctor.

Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee died in Patna, Bihar and Orissa Province, British India (now Bihar, India) on 25 May 1924 (aged 59 years) a month before his sixth birthday. When he was arguing on a case in Patna.

He received his early education in Calcutta. On completion of law education, he started a lawyer in Calcutta (Kolkata) High Court in 1888 AD. In November 1879, at the age of fifteen, Mukherjee passed the entrance examination of the University of Calcutta, in which he finished second and received a first-grade scholarship. In the year 1880, he took admission to the Presidency College (Presidency University), Kolkata, where he took P.C. Ray and Narendranath Dutta who later became known as Swami Vivekananda. Later that year, although only a first-year graduate, he published his first mathematical paper on a new proof of the 25th proposal of Euclid's first book. In 1883, Mukherjee topped the BA examination at the University of Calcutta.

To complete a master's degree in mathematics. In 1883, S.N. Banerjee wrote an article against the Calcutta High Court orders in the newspaper Bengali and was arrested in contempt of court. Protests and uproar took place across Bengal and other cities in the Calcutta High Court led by a group of students led by Mukherjee. In 1904, he was appointed a judge in the Calcutta High Court. From 1906 to 14 and from 1921 to 1923 he was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta. In the year 1908, Mukherjee founded the Calcutta Mathematical Society and he served as the Society's president from 1908 to 1923.

In 1910, he was appointed President of the Imperial (now National) Library Council, to which he donated his personal collection of 80,000 books, which are organized in a separate section. He was the President of the inaugural session of the Indian Science Congress in 1914. Mukherjee was a member of the Sadler Commission of 1917–1919, headed by Michael Ernest Sadler, who investigated the state of Indian education. He was elected three times as President of the Asiatic Society. In 1914, he was also the first president of the inaugural session of the Indian Science Congress. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, the founder of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh was his son.

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Mukherjee was a polyglot learned in Pali, French, and Russian. In addition to his fellowship and membership in several international academic bodies, he received the title of Saraswati in 1910 with the award of the Pandits of the Nabadwip, followed by the Sanskritchaspati in 1912, the Dhaka Saraswat Samaj in 1914, Sambudhamama Chakraborty, and Bharat Martand in 1920. . Mukherjee was appointed a member of The Order of the Star of India (CSI) in June 1909 and was knighted in December 1911.