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Surajit Chandra Sinha (1926–2002) was born in Mymensingh District, (then Bengal and now) in Bangladesh since the divide, to Bhupendra Chandra Sinha (Maharaja of Susang) and a mother that belonged to a Zamindari (aristocratic) family of Sithlai in Pabna District, was an Indian anthropologist, and committed to the ideologies of both Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. ==Background== Being the eldest son of a maharaja, he was a maharajkumar and his mother could trace the origins of her family to the reign of Emperor Jahangir. His father was a well known artist who had studied at Presidency College, Calcutta. Sinha's youngest sister is Purba Dam, the eminent exponent of Rabindrasangeet. He was married to Dr. Purnima Sinha, a physicist, author and music scholar, who was the daughter of the eminent legal scholar and Bengali novelist, Dr. Nares Chandra Sen-Gupta. In the British period, Bhupendra Chandra Sinha's official status was ranked third in protocol in the Government House of Calcutta after the Coochbehar (a princely state) and the Burdwan, the latter the highest echelon of zamindari of Bengal. The Maharajas of Susang (a hill estate), were the most influential "zamindars" of Mymensingh. The other major zamindari family of the same district were the Maharajas of Muktagacha, who in spite of being the richest ''zamindars'' in the district, considered the Susanga Maharajas to be their chiefs. The Maharaja of Susanga was the chief of all the other ''zamindars'' of Mymensingh, which emerged from the Muktagacha family, the predecessor estate. A close paternal uncle, Maharajkumar Mani Singh was a well-known Communist Party leader and the author of ''Jiban Sangram''. Moni Singh was an elected head of the communist party in East Pakistan. In his youth Sinha followed in the footsteps of this paternal uncle. Sinha's maternal uncle was Kumar Jyotirindra Moitra (popularly called "Botukda"), an eminent exponent of Rabindrasangeet, who was a son of a zamindar of Sithlai. Moitra was a lifelong member of the CPI and wrote the school song for Patha Bhavan, a school founded in Calcutta in the 1960s. Even though Sinha was brought up and worked in Calcutta for the most part of his life, he spent several years (especially the last few years) in Santiniketan, where, from the beginning of the twentieth century, his family owned a house. The Sinha's of Susanga can be considered to be one of the prominent families of Santiniketan. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Surajit Chandra Sinha」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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