Late Professor Surendranath Dasgupta, CIE, IES, PhD (Cal. et Cantab.), DLitt. (Hony, Rome), was the Principal, Government Sanskrit College, Calcutta and King George Vth Professor of Mental and Moral Science, Calcutta University. He represented Cambridge University at the Congress of Philosophy in Paris in 1921 and the Calcutta University at the International Congress of Philosophy at Naples in 1924 and at Harvard in 1926.