Basanta Kumar Mallik

Basanta Kumar Mallik
Born(1879-05-27)27 May 1879
Jamalpur, Bihar, India
Died9 December 1958(1958-12-09) (aged 79)
Polstead Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
Alma materExeter College, Oxford
Occupations
  • Bengali tutor
  • author
  • philosopher
Known forInfluence on the poet Robert Graves in the 1920s
FatherSrihari Kumar Mallik

Basanta Kumar Mallik (27 May 1879 – 9 December 1958) was a Bengali tutor, author and philosopher. He spent two extended periods in Britain, and is known for his influence in the 1920s on the poet Robert Graves. Mallik, his family name, derives from an honorific given by the Moghul Empire, and he preferred not to use it.

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