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Basiswar (Boshi) Sen
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Scientist and agriculturalist
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India
About
Dr Boshi Sen was a plant physiologist. He was married to the historian, geographer and journalist Gertrude Emerson Sen in 1932. Boshi Sen worked under Jagadish Chandra Bose and through his research visited Britain and the US. Sen worked at University College, London and became acquainted with D. H. Lawrence in the late 1920s through the Brewster family.
Sen was founder of the Vivekanda Laboratory in Calcutta and later in Almora, India. He was closely associated with the Ramkrishna Mission in India.
Jagadish Chandra Bose, Leonard Elmhirst, Carl Jung, D. H. Lawrence, Ottoline Morrell, Gertrude Emerson Sen, Rabindranath Tagore.
Boulton, J. T. and M. H. (eds) The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, Volume VI 1927–8 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991)
Mehra, Girish N., Nearer Heaven than Earth: The Life and Times of Boshi Sen and Gertrude Emerson Sen (New Delhi: Rupa & Co., 2007)
Sen, Gertrude Emerson, Voiceless India, with an introduction by Rabindranath Tagore (London: Allen & Unwin, 1931)
LKE/IN/16, Boshi Sen Correspondence, Dartington Archives, Dartington Hall, Devon
Photos, National Portrait Gallery, London
Gertrude Emerson Sen; Lionel Tilden; Boshi Sen; Dorothy Bussy (nee Strachey); Simon Bussy and unknown man, by Lady Ottoline Morrell, vintage snapshot print, late 1935, NPG Ax143948
© National Portrait Gallery, London, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
Image credit
Boshi Sen; Gertrude Emerson Sen; Philip Edward Morrell, by Lady Ottoline Morrell, vintage snapshot print, late 1935, NPG Ax143952
National Portrait Gallery, Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
