# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/basiswar-sen
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:35:31.971Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/basiswar-sen"
name: "Basiswar Sen"
slug: "basiswar-sen"
description: "Basiswar \"Boshi\" Sen was an Indian agricultural scientist. He was a pioneer of the Green Revolution movement that changed the food landscape of India by growing abundant food grains, thereby reducing the possibility of any famine in the country. His wife was Gertrude Emerson Sen, an American author and specialist on Asia. He founded the Vivekananda Laboratory in the Almora region of the Himalayas. He was a friend of many notable people, such as Indian Prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, poet Rabindranath Tagore, Julian Huxley, and D. H. Lawrence. Sen was also associated with the Ramakrishna Order and the Ramakrishna Vivekananda movement, as well as with Jagadish Chandra Bose, the Indian scientist, and Sister Nivedita, the writer, orator, freedom fighter and direct disciple of Swami Vivekananda. The Government of India awarded him the third-highest civilian honour of Padma Bhushan in 1957."
tagline: "Indian agricultural scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Basiswar_Sen_-_Noted_Scientist%2C_Philosopher.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1887"
deathDate: "1971-08-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump