Professor Debi Prasad Chattopadhyay – A Birth Centenary Tribute

Abstract

Professor Debi Prasad Chattopadhyay was an internationally illustrious Indian philosopher who has made epoch making contribution to the exploration of the radicalism and materialistic current in ancient Indian philosophical paradigm. He was not merely a practitioner of science in the conventional sense of the term but an ardent champion of the scientific and rationalistic methodology applied to the study of ancient Indian philosophical thought. He was neither a chauvinist nor a romantic but he was truly rationalist and radicalism. It was his lifelong noble mission to trace back the scientific roots of Indian philosophy and culture. He is aptly designated as the chronicler of scientific facts and figures. In modern India he is rightly entitled as the founding father of the Lokayata School of Indian Philosophy based on ancient Indian scientific and materialistic methodology