Dinesh Chandra Sen

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Dinesh Chandra Sen (also Rai Bahadur Dinesh Chandra Sen) (1866-1939) was a researcher of Bangla folklore and the founder and Ramtonu Lahiri Professor at the Department of Bengali Language and Literature at the University of Calcutta.

He was born in the village Bogjuri in Manikganj of Bengal, now in Bangladesh. He is most famous for collecting and compiling the folklore of Bengal. Along with Chandra Kumar De, he published Mymensingh Gitika, or the Ballads of Mymensingh, a collection of 21 ballads.

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