Batakrishna Ghosh

{{Short description|Indian linguist}}

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Batakrishna Ghosh (1905-1950) was an Indian linguist, who specialised in Indo-European linguistics. He was born in 1905 and died at the age of 45 in 1950. He wrote a number of books and articles on Sanskrit and Indo-European linguistics. He translated Wilhelm Geiger's German book on the Pali language into English, published by the University of Calcutta.Geiger, Wilhelm and Ghosh, Batakrishna, [https://books.google.com/books?id=OG5jAAAAMAAJ "Pāli literature and language"], University of Calcutta, 1943[http://www.mangalamresearch.org/programs/past-programs/two-week-pali-intensive/ "Two-Week Intensive Introduction to Pāli"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130210093917/http://www.mangalamresearch.org/programs/past-programs/two-week-pali-intensive/ |date=February 10, 2013 }}, Mangalam Research Centre for Buddhist Languages

His first major contribution in the field of Sanskrit was his book Les formations nominales et verbales en p du Sanskrit (1933), published by Adrien-Maisonneuve (Paris).