Partha Sarathi Gupta

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Professor
Partha Sarathi Gupta
Labour Movement, Commonwealth History, English Civil War
, Documents For The Movement For Independence In India,
School or traditionLiberalism
Notable worksImperialism And The British Labour Movement, 1914-1964
Towards Freedom: Documents For The Movement For Independence In India, 1943-44

Partha Sarathi Gupta (5 August 1934 – 10 August 1999) was an Indian professor of British and European history at

Sukhamoy Chakravarty in 1953.[1]

Partha was a member of the

Cambridge University (1980-1981), and directeur d'études at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris
in 1989.

Biography

Partho was born in 1934 in

Indian Civil Services and mother Ashoka Gupta was a well known social worker who worked closely with Mahatma Gandhi during riots of Navakhali. He is the grandson of great Bengali writer of early 20th century Jyotirmoyee Devi
.

Early life

He was a brilliant student and topped state matriculation examination in the year 1949 from

Oxford University. He graduated in modern history specialising in the English Civil War. He worked closely with his teachers like Christopher Hill and Keith Thomas. He became friends with his batchmates Raphael Samuel and Peter Sedgwick. His British late-19th-century British railwaymen's union thesis earned him a Doctorate degree under the supervision of Henry Pelling
.

Teaching positions

Gupta in the year 1960, joined

Burdwan University in History Department briefly before joining Delhi University
as a reader. He was teaching economic history before he became a reader in European and British history.

Marriage and children

He married

Jamia Millia Islamia University in 1986. She was a consultant with Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage.[citation needed
] Her research has been on urban history, particularly that of Delhi. She has many books to her credit. She was a founder member of the Conservation Society of Delhi and has been a member of the Delhi Urban Art Commission. She authored books Delhi between Empires 1803-1931, Society, Government and Urban Growth; Delhi Then & Now; and has co-authored Beato's Delhi: 1857 and Beyond. She has been an advisor for Delhi: The Built Heritage, A Listing, Intach, 2000.[citation needed]

Together they have a son Himadri Shikhar Gupta and a daughter Niharika Gupta.

Published works

Imperialism And The British Labour Movement, 1914-1964[9]
Towards Freedom: Documents For The Movement For Independence In India, 1943-44[10] Power, Politics and the People: Studies in British Imperialism and Indian Nationalism (New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2002) Edited, with Anirudh Deshpande. The British Raj and Its Indian Armed Forces, 1857-1939. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Honours, decorations, awards and distinctions

Eshan scholarship awarded for the highest marks in West Bengal
Member of the Indian Council of Historical Research
Smuts Fellow in Commonwealth History at

Cambridge University

Directeur d'études at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

References

  1. TheGuardian.com
    . 13 September 1999.
  2. ISBN 978-81-7824-019-0
    .
  3. JSTOR 23005530
    .
  4. TheGuardian.com
    . 13 September 1999.
  5. ^ "The Gupta group visits the Max Planck Institute in Potsdam".
  6. ^ "Dr. Himadri Gupta's Scholar Profile". Archived from the original on 7 October 2019. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  7. ^ "Rhodes Scholar Database - Rhodes Trust".
  8. ^ "Sahapedia Team".
  9. ^ "Partha Sarathi Gupta - Google Search".
  10. ^ "Partha Sarathi Gupta: The historian's research took him back to his roots".
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