# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benoy-kumar-sarkar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:30:51.623Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benoy-kumar-sarkar"
name: "Benoy Kumar Sarkar"
slug: "benoy-kumar-sarkar"
description: "Benoy Kumar Sarkar was an Indian social scientist, professor, and nationalist. He founded several institutes in Calcutta, including the Bengali Institute of Sociology, Bengali Asia Academy, Bengali Dante Society, and Bengali Institute of American Culture."
tagline: "Indian academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Benoy_Kumar_Sarkar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1887-12-26"
deathDate: "1949-11-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.42844
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Benoy Kumar Sarkar"
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    title: "பினய் குமார் சர்க்கார்"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump