Dr. Mahendra Lal Sarkar

Mahendralal Sarkar was born at Paik Para Village in Howrah District, near Calcutta (now known as Kolkata) in the Bengal Province of British India. He lost his parents early in life. After his father’s death his mother had shifted to his maternal uncles’ house earlier and subsequently he was brought up by his maternal uncles, Iswar Chandra Ghosh & Mahesh Chandra Ghosh in their house at Nebutala in Calcutta. First he was sent to a “Gurumasai” or tutor to learn Bengali and subsequently to another tutor named Thakur Das Dey, to learn English. He secured admission in Hare School as a free student in 1840. In 1849 he passed the joined scholarship exam and joined Hindu College, where he studied up to 1854. At that time Hindu College did not have facilities for teaching seience and as he was bent up to studying medicine, he transferred to Calcutta Medical College.