College, Kolkata. He had studied aspects of Christianity as a student of the same college between 1836 and 1839. In 1864 he was elected to be a member of the Royal Asiatic Society along with Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar. In 1876 the University of Calcutta honoured him with an honorary doctorate degree. Reverend Krishna Mohan Banerjee died on 11 May 1885 in Kolkata, and was buried at Shibpur with his wife. The graveyard is currently located inside the campus of IIEST. Works He published a 13-volume English – Bengali adaptation of Encyclopædia Britannica, Vidyakalpadruma or Encyclopædia Bengalensis (1846–51). He wrote an Indian English drama "The persecuted" in 1831.. His other works include The Arian Witness (1875), Dialogues on the Hindu Philosophy (1861), and The Relation Between Christianity and Hinduism (1881). Memory A halt station named Krishna Mohan railway station in Sealdah South lines Baruipur - Lakshmikantapur route is marked in memoirs of Rev. Krishna Mohan Banerjee. References reverend Krishnamohan Bandyopadhyay Dwi-Shatabarsher Aloye, ed. Sanatkumar Naskar and Kasturi Mukhopadhyay, Ratnabali, 2013 External links Further reading Mayukh Das, Reverend Krishnamohan Bandyopadhyaya (in Bengali), Kolkata:Paschimbanga Anchalik Itihas O Loksanskriti Charcha Kendra (2014) T. V. Philip, Krishna Mohan Banerjea, Christian apologist (1982) Ramachandra Ghosha, A Biographical Sketch of the Rev. K. M. Banerjea ed. by Manabendra Naskar & Mayukh Das, Corpus Research Institute, Kolkata (2012) Durgadas Lahiri, Adarshacharit Krishnamohan ed. by Mayukh Das, Kolkata:Paschimbanga Anchalik Itihas O Loksanskriti Charcha Kendra(2012) K. Baago, Pioneers of Indigenous Christianity (1969) Ramtanu Lahiri O Tatkalin Bangasamaj in Bengali by Sivanath Sastri Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan (Biographical dictionary) in Bengali edited by Subodh Chandra Sengupta and Anjali Bose Tattwabodhini Patrika and the Bengal Renaissance by Amiya Kumar Sen 1813 births 1885 deaths 19th-century Bengalis Bengali writers Young Bengal Hare School alumni Presidency University, Kolkata alumni University of Calcutta alumni Christian clergy from Kolkata Indian Anglicans Converts to Christianity from Hinduism Indian Anglican missionaries 19th-century Indian scholars Indian scholars 19th-century Indian male writers Indian social workers Indian social reformers Educators from West Bengal Indian educators 19th-century Indian educators Educationists from India 19th-century Indian educational theorists 19th-century Indian linguists Indian columnists Indian male essayists 19th-century Indian essayists Indian non-fiction writers Indian male non-fiction writers 19th-century Indian non-fiction writers Indian religious writers Indian dramatists and playwrights Indian male dramatists and playwrights 19th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights English-language writers from India 19th-century Indian translators Indian encyclopedists