LOCATION

Population:
4,600,000 (2001)

SCHOOLS

School	Founded
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta	1961
University of Calcutta	1857

BIRTHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Jaya Bhaduri	Actor	9-Apr-1948		Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...
John Bowen	Novelist	5-Nov-1924		The Truth Will Not Help Us
Sasthi Brata	Author	1939		Confessions of an Indian Woman Eater
Bikram Choudhury	Business	1946		The Bad Boy of Yoga
Thomas Frognall Dibdin	Author	1776	18-Nov-1847	English bibliographer
Rakesh Gangwal	Business	1953		CEO of Worldspan
Rajat K. Gupta	Business	2-Dec-1948		Managing Partner of McKinsey, 1994-2003
Shashi Kapoor	Actor	18-Mar-1938		Deewaar
Bharati Mukherjee	Novelist	27-Jul-1940		The Tiger's Daughter
Margaret Murray	Archaeologist	13-Jul-1863	13-Nov-1963	Egyptologist, mother of Wicca
Gayatri Spivak	Scholar	24-Feb-1942		Postcolonialist theorist, Can the Subaltern Speak?
Rabindranath Tagore	Poet	7-May-1861	7-Aug-1941	Gitanjali
R. H. Tawney	Scholar	30-Nov-1880	16-Jan-1962	The Acquisitive Society
William Makepeace Thackeray	Novelist	18-Jul-1811	24-Dec-1863	Vanity Fair

DEATHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Bankim Chandra Chatterji	Novelist	26-Jun-1838	8-Apr-1894	Krishna Kanta's Will
Rabindranath Tagore	Poet	7-May-1861	7-Aug-1941	Gitanjali
Mother Teresa	Religion	26-Aug-1910	5-Sep-1997	Missionaries of Charity

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