Late Dr. Bhakti Prasad Mallik was born on 29thOctober, 1922 at North Calcutta in West Bengal. After passing the Intermediate examination he had taken admission to the Scottish Church College with honours in Economics. He completed his BA honours degree from this college and was admitted to the department of Comparative Philology (now Linguistics) of the University of Calcutta for the M.A. degree. After passing M.A. in Comparative Philology he registered his name as a Ph.D. student under Professor Sukumer Sen, the then Head of the Department. He got his Ph.D. degree from the University in 1964.