Education

After school, he joined Calcutta's renowned Scottish Church College from where he graduated in 1912. He obtained a Master's degree in Philosophy from the University of Calcutta

University of Calcutta

The University of Calcutta is a public university located in the city of Kolkata , India, founded on 24 January 1857...

 in 1914, and a law degree in 1917. He had also won the Roychand-Premchand scholarship and the Mowat gold medal from the University of Calcutta.

Career

He joined the Scottish Church College as lecturer of philosophy and logic in 1915. In 1917 he joined Calcutta University as lecturer of philosophy and experimental psychology. When the University of Dhaka

University of Dhaka

The University of Dhaka is the oldest university in Bangladesh. It is a multi-disciplinary research university and is among the top universities in the region. Established on July 21, 1921, as per the Government of India Act, 1920, it was modelled on the Universities in England and soon gained...

 was founded in 1921, he joined its philosophy department as a reader. He also served in various other capacities at the university. He edited the journal Dhaka University Studies and served as a member of the editorial board of the Philosophical Quarterly Journal.

He also gave several prestigious lectures such as the Stephonus Nirmalendu Ghosh lectures on Foundations of Living Faiths at Calcutta University in 1933-34 and the Madanmohan Malavya Commemoration lecture.

He voraciously published essays in many prestigious journals.

He was known essentially as an idealistic philosopher. He retired in 1947 after 26 years of service, and later joined the Indology department of Benares Hindu University.

He died in Calcutta on January 20, 1956.

Primary source

Banglapedia article on Haridas Bhattacharya