N. P. Chakravarti

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Niranjan Prasad Chakravarti
archaeologist

Niranjan Prasad Chakravarti (IAST: Nirañjana Prasāda Cakravarti)

Director-general of the Archaeological Survey of India
from 1948 to 1950.

Early life and education

Chakravarti was born on 1 July 1893 in

Berlin University on a scholarship in 1921, Chakravarti went to the United Kingdom and obtained a doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 1926.[2] After obtaining his PhD from Cambridge, he was tasked by Paul Pelliot with editing and annotating the oldest Brahmi inscriptions found in Central Asia.[3]

Career

Chakravarti returned to

Ootacamund. In 1934, he was promoted to the post of Chief Epigraphist for the Government of India. In 1938, he excavated some (exact number unknown) of the 100 Chaitya caves in Bandhavgarh National Park.[4]

In 1940, he was promoted to the rank of the Deputy Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India and then the rank of the Joint Director-General in 1945. In 1948, Chakravarti succeeded

Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal.[6]

Later life

Following his retirement, Chakravarti was appointed as an advisor to the Department of Archaeology, Government of India and served till 1952. Chakravarti died on 19 October 1956 in New Delhi.

Works

  • L'UDĀNAVARGA SANSKRIT --- Texte sanskrit en transcription, avec traduction et annotations, suivi d'une étude critique et de planches, Tome I, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris, 1930, 272 pp.
  • --- Tome II, 16 planches, 1931, environ 250 pp.
  • India and Java. Volumes 1 - 2. With Bijan Raj Chatterjee. Calcutta: M.C. Das, Prabasi Press (1933).
  • India and Central Asia. Calcutta: Avinash Chandra Sarkar (1927). Greater India Society Series, no. 4.
    OCLC 28408300
    .
  • Presidential Address for the
    OCLC 68776340
    .
  • Minor Buddhist Texts Part 1. With
    OCLC 245707156
    . Subtext:

Edited:

References

  1. ^ Eminent Indians who was Who, 1900-1980, Also Annual Diary of Events. Durga Das Pvt. Limited. 1985. p. 59.
  2. ^ Ray, Purnima; Patil, C. B. (2014). Remembering Stalwarts: Biographical Sketches of Scholars from Archaeological Survey of India. Director General, Archaeological Survey of India. p. 29.
  3. ^ The Calcutta Review, Third Series, Vol-22, (Jan-March), 1927. 1927. p. 233.
  4. S2CID 253193301
    .
  5. ISBN 978-81-246-0217-1
    .
  6. ^ Yearbook of the Asiatic Society. Asiatic Society. 1953.

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Preceded by Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India
1948 - 1950 		Succeeded by
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