High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Radhagobinda Chandra (July 16, 1878 - April 3, 1975) was a successful astronomer of Indian subcontinent. He is a pioneer of modern astronomical research. He was born in modern-day Bangladesh, then part of the Bengal province of British India. The Indian subcontinent, also Indian Subcontinent and other terms, is a region of the Asian (and, in turn, the Eurasian) continent on the Indian tectonic plate south of the Himalayas, forming a land mass which extends southward into the Indian Ocean.