Shankar was born on 7 April 1920 in Benares (now Varanasi), then the capital of the eponymous princely state, in a Bengali Hindu family, as the youngest of seven brothers. His father, Shyam Shankar Chowdhury, was a Middle Temple barrister and scholar who originally from Jessore district, East Bengal
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Mother
Hemangini Devi
Father
Shyam Shankar Chowdhury
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Sukanya Rajan
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Norah Jones, Anoushka Shankar, Shubhendra Shankar
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