Krishna Mohan Banerjee - Later Life

Later Life

In 1852, Krishna Mohan was appointed a professor of Oriental Studies at Bishop’s College, Shibpore, Kolkata. He had studied aspects of Christianity as a student of the same college between 1836 and 1839.

In 1864 he was elected to be a member of the Royal Asiatic Society along with Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar. In 1876 the University of Calcutta honoured him with a doctorate.

He published a 13-volume English-Bengali encyclopaedia Vidyakalpadrum (1846-1851); and also wrote The Arian Witness (1875), Dialogues on the Hindu Philosophy (1861), Upadeshkatha, and The Relation Between Christianity and Hinduism (1881).

Reverend Krishna Mohan Banerjee died on 11 May 1885 in Kolkata, and was buried at Shibpore.

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