Sahasravachaspati Sir Asutosh Mookerjee Saraswati (Bengali: আশুতোষ মুখোপাধ্যায়) , M.A, PhD, DSc, LLD,CIE, Kt. was an Indian educator and Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta from 1906 to 1924. He was also responsible for the foundation of the Bengal Technical Institute in 1906 and the Calcutta University College of Science in 1914. He approached different people to raise funds for the establishment of the Calcutta University College of Science, which became the first and foremost institute of scientific education and research in the country. Bengali or Bangla (বাংলা, IPA: ) is an Indo-Aryan language of East South Asia, evolved from Prakrit, Pāli and Sanskrit. ... // Universities A Vice-Chancellor (commonly called the VC) of a university in the United Kingdom, other Commonwealth countries, and some universities in Hong Kong, is the de facto head of the university. ... Formally established on the 24 January 1857, the University of Calcutta (also known as Calcutta University), located in the city of Kolkata (previously Calcutta), India, is the first modern university in the Indian subcontinent. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Established in January 24, 1857, the University of Calcutta (also known as Calcutta University) is the first modern university in the Indian sub_continent. ... 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...

He is credited with the establishment of Indian languages (like Bengali, Hindi, Sanskrit) as serious academic discplines. Bengali or Bangla (বাংলা, IPA: ) is an Indo-Aryan language of East South Asia, evolved from Prakrit, Pāli and Sanskrit. ... Hindi (हिन्दी or हिंदी in Devanagari; pronunciation: ), an Indo-European language spoken mainly in northern and central India, is the official language of the Union government of India [1][2]. It is part of a dialect continuum of the Indic family, bounded on the northwest and west by Punjabi, Sindhi, Urdu, and... The Sanskrit language ( , ) is a classical language of India, a liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, and one of the 22 official languages of India. ... Plato is credited with the inception of academia: the body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. ...

His proactive outlook to a holistic education system that encompassed cultivation of the liberal arts and well as a general development of a scientific temperament had ensured the status of the University of Calcutta as one of the premier academic institutions to the East of Suez. Scholars from all over India, irrespective of race, caste, and gender came to study and teach there. He had even persuaded European scholars to teach at his university. He was one of the first persons to recognize the worth of Srinivasa Ramanujan. Holism (from holon, a Greek word meaning entity) is the idea that the properties of a system cannot be determined or explained by the sum of its components alone. ... In the history of education, the seven liberal arts comprise two groups of studies, the trivium and the quadrivium. ... Formally established on the 24 January 1857, the University of Calcutta (also known as Calcutta University), located in the city of Kolkata (previously Calcutta), India, is the first modern university in the Indian subcontinent. ... SUEZ (Euronext: SZE, NYSE: SZE) is a leading French-based multinational corporation, with operations primarily in water, electricity and natural gas supply, and waste management. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... The word gender describes the state of being male, female, or neither. ... This article is about the continent. ... Srinivasa Ramanujan Srinivāsa Aiyangār Rāmānujan (Tamil: ஸ்ரீனிவாஸ ஐயங்கார் ராமானுஜன்) (December 22, 1887 – April 26, 1920) was an Indian mathematician who excelled in the heuristic aspects of number theory and insight into modular functions. ...

Though the British did not share his views on colonial domination, they respected and admired his honesty, transparency and integrity. He was known as the Tiger of Bengal.

The epitaph beneath his marble bust at the Ashutosh Museum of Arts at the University of Calcutta reads: An epitaph ( literally: on the gravestone in ancient Greek) is text honoring the deceased, most commonly inscribed on a tombstone or plaque. ...

"His noblest achievement, surest of them all/

A place for his mother tongue --- in step mother's hall".