Mohit Sen - Early Life and Education

Early Life and Education

Sen was born in to a progressive and westernized Brahmo Samaj family. His father, Justice Amarendra Nath Sen, was a judge of the Calcutta High Court and his mother, Mrinalini Sen (née Sinha), was an eminent dancer. His paternal grandfather was an Advocate General of Burma. His maternal grandfather was Major N.P. Sinha, a member of the Indian Medical Service and his mother's elder uncle was Lord Satyendra Prasanno Sinha, the first Indian Governor of Bihar. On his mother's side he came from the zamindari family of Raipur in Birbhum, a district in present day West Bengal. He had five other brothers, the eldest of whom was Shri Pratap Chandra Sen, a brilliant student of history at Presidency College, Calcutta, who rose to the top of a mercantile firm in Calcutta in spite of remaining a closet communist. Mohit Sen had his early education at the Presidency College, Calcutta, where he was a student of Professor Susobhan Sarkar, and from where he came First Class First in his BA (Hons.) examination. Later he studied at the University of Cambridge, UK.