Radhakanta Deb

Career

He published Shabda Kalpadruma, a Sanskrit-Sanskrit language dictionary. Hara Kumar Tagore another contemporary Sanskrit scholar and scion of Tagore family had assisted him in compiling of Shabda Kalpadruma. He also wrote articles that were published in Ishwar Chandra Gupta"s newspaper Sambad Prabhakar.

Achievements

• An accomplished scholar, Radhakanta was proficient in Sanskrit, Persian and Arabic.

Politics

Despite his contribution to the cause of education, he was a strong upholder of social conservatism.

Views

Although sati was not practiced in his own family, he came forward to defend the custom when the Government contemplated its abolition.