Brajendra Nath Seal


Sir Brajendra Nath Seal was a Bengali Indian humanist philosopher. He was born in Haripal, Hoogly District, in 1864. His father Mohendranath Seal was one of the earliest followers of Comtean positivism in Bengal. As a student of philosophy at the General Assembly's Institution, he became attracted to Brahmo theology. And along with his better-known classmate and friend Narendranath Dutta, the future Swami Vivekananda, he regularly attended meetings of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj. Later they would part ways with Dutta aligning himself with Keshub Chunder Sen's New Dispensation and Seal staying on as an initiated member.