Education for Industrialization: An Analysis of The Forty Years’ Work of Jadavpur College of Engineering and Technology 1905-45

Professor Benoy Kumar Sarkar was the founder and organizer of National Council of Education, Bengal established in 1906. He was a Professor at the Bengal National College, Calcutta. In 1907 he founded the Maldaha Jatiya Siksa Samiti which used to run a number of primary and secondary schools. Professor Sarkar was a pioneer in the field of Education. He wrote profusely in a number of Indian and Western languages continuously for four decades and served the society wholeheartedly as an author, educationist and a social reformer. He traveled almost the entire West and devoted a book in Bengali to each country that he visited.