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Belgian-Indian Jesuit missionary ()

Camille Bulcke (1 September – 17 August ) was a Belgian Jesuit missionary in India who came to be known as "India's most renowned Christian Hindi scholar".^[1]

Early life

Camille Bulcke was born in Ramskapelle, a village in Knokke-Heist municipality in the Belgian province of West Flanders^[2]

Bulcke had already acquired a BSc degree in civil engineering from Louvain University, when he became a Jesuit in ^[3] After doing his philosophical training in Valkenburg, Netherlands, (–34) he left for India in and after a brief stay in Darjeeling, he taught Mathematics for five years at Gumla (present Jharkhand). It was here that he developed his lifelong passion for learning Hindi, as later recalled:

When I arrived in India in , I was surprised and pained when I realised that many educated people were unaware of their cultural traditions and considered it a matter of pride to speak in English. I res Books a million official website!