Tapan Raychaudhuri
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Tapan Raychaudhuri | |
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British India | |
Died | 26 November 2014 (aged 88) |
Alma mater |
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Awards | Watumull Prize |
Scientific career | |
Fields | History |
Doctoral advisors | Dr. C. C. Davies Jadunath Sarkar |
Notable students | Gyanendra Pandey, Gowher Rizvi |
Tapan Raychaudhuri (8 May 1926 – 26 November 2014) was a British-Indian historian specialising in British Indian history, Indian economic history and the History of Bengal.[1][2]
Early life and education
He was the son of Prativa and Amiya Kumar Raychaudhuri, the last zamindar of Kirtipasha in Barisal district of eastern Bengal. He came from a well-known Bengali Kayastha family. He was a nephew of Kiran Shankar Roy[3] and Hem Chandra Roychaudhuri, through his paternal aunts.[4]
He was a student of
Career
He started his career as a lecturer at the Department of Islamic History and Culture, Calcutta University. After his return from Britain, he became a deputy director of the National Archives of India. He was a reader and then professor of history and director of the Delhi School of Economics and professor and the head of the department of history of Delhi University.[5]
He was a reader in modern South Asian history from 1973 to 1992 and then ad hominem professor of Indian history and civilization and fellow of
He became a national research professor in India in 2011[7][8]
Awards
- Watumull Prize awarded by the American Historical Association, 1982. (jointly with Irfan Habib) for the Cambridge Economic History of India.[9]
- Doctor of Letters 1993, University of Oxford
- Doctor of Letters honoris causa by the University of Calcutta[10]
- Doctor of Letters honoris causa by the University of Burdwan[citation needed]
- Padma Bhushan in 2007 in recognition to his contributions to history.[11][12]
Death
He died at home in Oxford (England) on 26 November 2014, after suffering a stroke.[13]
Publications
Books
- —— (1953). Bengal Under Akbar and Jahangir: An Introductory Study in Social History. Calcutta: A. Mukherjee & Co. OCLC 906328391.
- —— (1962). Jan Company in Coromandel, 1605-1690. 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff.
- Raychaudhuri, Tapan; Habib, Irfan, eds. (1982). The Cambridge Economic History of India. Vol. I, c. 1200-c. 1750. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-22802-2.
- —— (1988). Europe Reconsidered: Perceptions of the West in Nineteenth Century Bengal. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-562066-5.[15]
- —— (1993). Romanthan Athoba Bhimrotiprapter Paracharitcharcha রোমন্থন অথবা ভীমরতিপ্রাপ্তর পরচরিতচর্চা (in Bengali). Kolkata: Ananda. ISBN 978-8177563481.
- —— (2005). Perceptions, Emotions, Sensibilities: Essays on India's Colonial and Post-colonial Experiences. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-567894-9.
- —— (2007). Bangalanama. Kolkata: Ananda. ISBN 978-8177566697.
- —— (2011). The world in our time: a memoir. Noida: Harper Collins Publishers India. ISBN 978-9350291320.
References
- ^ "A Man of Many Parts". The Indian Express.
- ^ "Tapan Raychaudhuri (1926-2014)". Economic and Political Weekly.
- ^ Banglapedia: Kiron Shakar Roy
- ^ Sen Sharma, Tribhanga Mohan (1942). Kuladarpanam, Behrampore: New Art Press. p.369
- ^ "Amartya Sen - Biographical". Nobelprize.org.
- ^ "Professor Tapan Kumar Raychaudhuri DPhil, DLitt, Bio". Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University. Archived from the original on 2 October 2013. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
- ^ "Economic historian Tapan Raychaudhuri passes away". Hindustan Times.
- ^ "Smriti Irani picks three professors with saffron tinge for National Research Professorship scheme". India Today.
- ^ "AHA Award Recipients". American Historical Association.
- ^ "Annual Convocation". University of Calcutta. Archived from the original on 28 May 2012.
- ^ "Padma Vibhushan for Bhagwati, V. Krishnamurthy". The Hindu. 27 January 2007. p. 1. Archived from the original on 11 February 2007.
- ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
- ^ "Historian Tapan Raychaudhuri dies". bdnews24.com. 27 November 2014.
- JSTOR 2050166.
- S2CID 145407547.