Subodh Chandra Sengupta (27 June 1903 – 3 December 1998) was an Indian scholar, academic and critic of English literature,[1] known for his scholarship on Shakespearean works.
[8] The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 1983, for his contributions to literature and education.
[9] Subodh Chandra Sengupta was born in 1903 in Dhaka, in the Bengal Province of British India (present-day Bangladesh)[10] and did his college studies at Presidency College, Calcutta during 1924-26 where he had the opportunity to learn under such academics as Harendra Coomar Mookerjee, Prafulla Chandra Ghosh and Srikumar Banerjee.
[11] After securing his MA in 1927, he continued his doctoral studies with Premchand Roychand scholarship during which time he started his career as a faculty member at the Presidency College, Calcutta.
[26][27] The story of his life has been documented in a work, Professor Subodh Chandra Sen Gupta: Scholar Extraordinary,[28] published by the foundation bearing his name.