Saratchandra Mitra

Saratchandra's father was Narasinghachandra Mitra, a legal adviser and pleader to the Hathwa Raj, and his mother was Nistarini Dasi.

Saratchandra's older brother Amulyachandra died young and sister Sailabala Dasi was married to Purnachandra Chaudhuri of Simla.

In 1921 he was appointed professor in charge of the newly created Department of Anthropology[2] at the University of Calcutta but he retired in 1926 due to ill health and loss of vision.

His position was then briefly taken by the American trained Biraja Sankar Guha who however moved out of the university to join government service.

He wrote on a range of subjects such as The Legends of Buddha in Indo-Hellenistic Art (In a Bombay-based magazine East and West, August 1913) which was reviewed by the Evening Gazette of Aberdeen.