Early Life and Education
Keshub Chandra Sen was born on 19 November 1838 into an affluent Vaidya-Brahmin family of Calcutta. His family originally belonged to Gariffa village on the banks of the river Hooghly. His grandfather was Ramkamal Sen (1783–1844), a well known pro-sati Hindu activist and lifelong opponent of Ram Mohan Roy His father Peary Mohan Sen died when he was ten, and Sen was brought up by his uncle. As a boy, he attended the Bengali Patshala elementary school and later attended Hindu Metropolitan College in 1845.
He had at least nine children, four sons — Karuna, Nirmal, Profullo and Subrata and five daughters — Suniti, Savitri, Sucharu, Monica and Sujata.
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