Girish Chandra Bose

Girish Chandra Bose (29 October 1853 – 1 January 1939) was an Indian educator and botanist.

Early life and education Bose was born on 29 October 1853 in the village of Berugram in the Burdwan district of India. He attended Hooghly College, and received a BA degree in 1876. After graduation, he was hired as a lecturer of science at Ravenshaw College, where he worked until 1881.

At the end of 1881, he was offered a state scholarship to study agriculture at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester, England. In 1882 he took up life membership of the Royal Agricultural Society, and in 1883 was elected a Fellow of the Chemical Society. He completed his degree at the Royal Agricultural College in 1884. After visits to Scotland, France and Italy, he returned to India.

Botanical work

Bose wrote a botany book, A Manual of Indian Botany. The book was intended as a textbook containing plants familiar to Indian students, in contrast to the European textbooks commonly used in India at the time. He is also credited with starting the first agricultural journal in India. The journal, founded in 1885, was published both in English (as Agricultural Gazette) and in Bengali (as Krishi Gazette).

Death Bose died 1 January 1939, after a short illness. Bhu-tattva (1882) Krishi Sopan (1888) Krishi Parichay (1890) Gacher Katha (1910) Udvid Gyan (1923–25)