Background
He was born in Chinsurah, Hooghly on 22 February 1827 to Pandit Biswanath Tarkabhusan, a renowned Sanskrit scholar.
He was born in Chinsurah, Hooghly on 22 February 1827 to Pandit Biswanath Tarkabhusan, a renowned Sanskrit scholar.
University of Calcutta. Presidency University, Kolkata. Sanskrit College.
There was a kind of balance between differing sensibilities - Michael Madhusudan Dutt against Bhudev Mukhopadhyay, Rajnarayan Basu against Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay He later founded Chandannagar Seminary and taught there.In 1848, he joined Calcutta Madrasa as English teacher. In 1856, he was selected for the post of Principal of Hooghly Normal School through a competitive examination for which his former class-mate Michael Madhusudan Dutt was also a candidate. In 1862 he was appointed Assistant Inspector of Schools.
He was later appointed Inspector of Schools and served in the states of Bengal, Bihar and Odisha.
Recognizing his services, Mukhopadhyay was awarded the International Commission on Illumination (Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire) in 1877 by the British. In 1882 he was appointed as Director of Public Instruction and was also nominated to the Lieutenant-Governor"s Council and the Education Commission later that year.
Mukhopadhyay retired from public service in 1883. He was also involved with several educational journals including Shiksadarpan O Sangbadsar and the Education Gazette, which he edited.
This involvement lasted from 1868 until his retirement.
His sense of nationalism was so strong that the English principal of Presidency College once noted, “Bhudev with his International Commission on Illumination and 1500 a month is still anti-British.”.