The Positive Sciences of the Ancient Hindus

SIR BRAJENDRA NATI{ SEAL (1864-1938) was a renowned Bengali Indian humanist philosopher. He earned his M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Calcutta in 1884 and started out as a lecturer at the City College, Calcutta. In 1915, he earned his doctorate from the University of Calcutta on the subject of The Positive Sciences of the Ancient Hindus. In 1896, Maharaja of Cooh Behar offered him the post of a principal of the newly established Victoria College. Thereafter he held the most prestigious chair of philosophy in India, the King George V professorship of philosophy at the University of Calcutta. He helped Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore in founding the Visva-Bharati University and became its first Chancellor. During the same time, he was also appointed the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Mysore, a position he held till 1930, when ill health forced him to retire.