Who's Who in India Supplement 1 (1912)/Biseswar Tarkaratna
Mahamahopadhyaya B. Tarkaratna (69)
Biseswar Tarkaratna, Mahamahopadhyaya, was born in 1869, and educated at home and at Benares. He belongs to a family of Backerganj, in Eastern Bengal : his grandfather and father established and maintained Sanskrit seminaries. The Pundit is a well-known Sanskrit scholar, and is Principal of the Maharaja's Sanskrit School at Burdwan, being also Court Pundit to that nobleman. He is Secretary of the Sanskrit examinations held by Government at Burdwan. He possesses landed property in Backerganj district. His title was conferred on the occasion of the recent Coronation Durbar, in recognition of his learning and services to education. Address: Burdwan, Bengal.