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Dec 8 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Close your eyes, get on the time machine and imagine the period between 24th August 1808 and 1900. Elder cousin brother #RajaJoykrishnaMukherjee sets up 59 schools in 1 month in #Bengal, a record no has broken globally, sets up Indian Cultivation of Science & Calcutta (1/n) ImageImage
(2/n) University that produced the greatest scholars in the world while younger brother #SirAshutoshMukherjee contribution in the field of #Mathematics led to his appointment as a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in +++
(3/n) (at the age of 21), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Member of the Royal Asiatic Society and a Member of the Bedford Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching in 1886, a Fellow of the London Physical Society in 1887+++
(5/n) a Fellow of the Mathematical Societies of Edinburgh and Paris in 1888, a Member of the Mathematical Society of Palermo of Sicily and a Member of Society de Physique of France in 1890, a Member of the Irish Academy in 1893, and a Fellow of the American Mathematical ++
(6/n) Society in 1900. Both were fiercely nationalist and refused to wear European clothes expect for attending official duties. Both refused to meet the Queen and King Edward VII. King Edward had to personally visit #RajaJoykrishna at #Uttarpara to hand him the highest medal++
(7/n) of honor under the Imperial Crown. Big brother made sure that Ashutosh became the Vice Chancellor of Calcutta University. Like his big brother Ashutosh was elected in the Bengal Legislative Council as a representative of Calcutta University in 1899. This is what the great ImageImage
(8/n) wrote when Sir Ashutosh was appointed the VC of Calcutta University👆

@SirPareshRawal Bengalis may eat fish, meat, eggs whatever but today you are free and got your basic education (doubtful now) because of the same Bengalis. So learn to respect. So let me take the.....
(9/n) give you a quick crash course on Bengal topography. Assam was a separate State in 1872 and what is today called Bangladesh (which you have no clue about) was part of Assam. Then Assam got merged into Bengal and separated again later. Take a look and learn👇 ImageImage

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Dec 10
This will be a #Burnol moment for many. I will give you proof that all the history we are taught in schools & colleges in pure junk. They were all written by a certain vested political class. We need to fix it now. This tweet is about who founded the great #CalcuttaUniversity +
The 1st ever letter drafted towards establishing a state of the art University in India in lines of Oxford and Cambridge was drafted than none other than my GGGG grandfather #RajaJoykrishnaMukherjee in 1846. @Primrose, you wanted it, I got it. The entire proposal! Earlier I ++ Image
(3/n) just published the first page of the handwritten proposal. Here is the entire letter and everything is available at #UttarparaJoykrishnaLibrary if you want evidence. So here's the sequence of events in the run upto establishing one of the best Universities in the world++ ImageImageImageImage
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Dec 9
@prateepmisra @ProfMKay @TheWIPMan I think I am going to lose my job soon. The more I am reading my family history, the more addicted I am getting. I may need help with a job😉 #RajaJoykrishnaMukherjee, way before @NobelPrize was envisioned, launched a Global Award in the (1/n) Image
(2/n) in the field of General Science, astro physics & space technology. With the help of Mahendralal Sarkar (with whom he co founded Indian Cultivation of Science he launched "Joykrishna Gold Award". A trophy made in gold was to be awarded to the top scientists in the world for
(3/n) their contribution to research in science and technology. Among the winners of this award was Sir James Jeans. Sir Jeans was one of the world's foremost thinkers in the area of quantum theory, the theory of radiation and stellar evolution ++
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Dec 9
Since the capital of India moved from #Calcutta (Kolkata) to #Delhi, for some reason the hatred for Mukherjees became evident. I can guess why #RajaJoykrishna was wiped out, but why his younger cousin #SirAshutoshMukherjee? If you are a student of #Mathematics, have u ever (1/n) Image
(2/n) been taught "Mookerji Theorems"? While Raja Joykrishna Mukherjee was the architect of #CalcuttaUniversity (I will be publishing the complete proposal he gave to Cecil Beadon) the 3 biggest financial contributors were Sir Ashutosh, Taraknath Palit and eminent barrister++
(3/n) Rashbehari Ghose.
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Oct 21
It was initially young working population leaving #Kolkata, now it's the elderly. My in laws, like many, had it enough in #Kolkata after spending their entire lifetime left the city after ~ 74 yrs. Like many, they can't relate to the city & it's culture anymore. Couple of (1/n)
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1) Security- My FIL was the President of one of the oldest Durga Puja Committee in Central Kolkata. He is well revered & well connected. Despite his local reputation, there was an attempted break in. Something unheard of in his hood.
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Aug 24
On the 214th birth anniversary of #JoykrishnaMukherjee, a message for all Bengalis in & outside #Bengal from our family historian Debasish Mukherjee. He has authored 4 books on our family that are available at #JoykrishnaPublicLibrary & the government of #WestBengal has
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(2/n) assured us that these books will be made available at all major public libraries and school libraries across #Bengal. Let's hope they'll follow through. He is also the architect of world's largest genealogy chart having 4600 entity relationships mapped over 1100 years.
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Aug 24
@BJP4Bengal @BJP4India will not win #Bengal for 2 reasons
1) It's a spineless party that respects the self interest of only a few core members. It gives jackshit about reviving #Bengal. They operate like modified pseudo dynasty
2) It doesn't even want to control #Bengal. (1/2)
(2/3) Given the state of #Bengal, BJP cannot possibly see any RoI in the CAPEX over the next 20 yrs. As a business class, they understand investments. Plus Didi plays well as a party in their #GameTheory based strategy. Now why does BJP gives a rats ass about Bengal? I'll give...
(3/4) 2 proof points
1) Which party with any sense of decency allows its members to get into a full blown street war at the house of its founding member on the day of #SyamaPrasadMookerjee s birth anniversary

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