Tapan Raychaudhuri

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Tapan Raychaudhuri is an Indian historian specialising in British Indian history, Indian economic history and the History of Bengal.

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[edit] Biography

He is the second son of Amiya Kumar Raychaudhuri, former zamindar of Kirtipasha in Barisal, a district of East Bengal, currently known as Bangladesh.[1] He is a nephew of the prominent Congress politician, Kiran Shankar Ray, who was a Home Minister of West Bengal after independence. He is also a nephew of the distinguished historian Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri, who became the Vice Chancellor of Patna University.

[edit] Education

He studied at Scottish Church College, Calcutta (for his Intermediate in Arts), and at the Presidency College, Calcutta for his BA and MA degrees. He received his PhD in History from the University of Calcutta under the supervision of the eminent historian Sir Jadunath Sarkar, and his D.Phil from Balliol College, Oxford under the supervision of Dr. C. C. Davies. He was conferred the Doctor of Letters honoris causa by the University of Oxford, University of Calcutta and University of Burdwan. In 2007, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian honour bestowed by the Indian government.

[edit] Positions

In his illustrious career he has held several very important academic posts: he started his career, before leaving for Oxford, as a Lecturer in the Department of Islamic History and Culture, Calcutta University. After his return to India, he was appointed as the Deputy and Acting Director of the National Archives of India, New Delhi. He became Reader and Professor of History at University of Delhi. Later he also was the Professor of Economic History and Director at the Delhi School of Economics, at a time when his colleagues in the D.School included Amartya Sen, Sukhomoy Chakravarty, Jagdish Bhagwati and Manmohan Singh. He was also First-Editor of Indian Social and Economic History Review, New Delhi, a leading Indian history journal. He became Reader and then Ad Hominem Professor of Indian History and Civilisation and Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford, where he has supervised generations of Indian history students. Presently he is Emeritus Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford.

He has been a Guest Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, Collegio de Maxico, Ecole Pratique de Hautes Etudes, University of Sydney and University of Perth and a Visiting Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

[edit] Awards

[edit] Publications

  • Perceptions, Emotions, Sensibilities: Essays on India's Colonial and Post-colonial Experiences (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005), [4]
  • The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. I, (Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2004), (jointly edited with Irfan Habib),
  • Romanthan Athoba Bhimrotiprapter Paracharitcharcha, (Calcutta: Ananda Publishers, 1992) (in Bengali)
  • Europe Reconsidered: Perception of the West in Nineteenth Century Bengal, (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988)[5]
  • Bengal Under Akbar & Jahangir: An Introductory Study in Social History, (1969), [6]
  • Jan Company in Coromandel, (Martinus Nijhoff, 1962),[7]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Tapan Raychaudhuri, Romanthan Athoba Bhimrotiprapter Paracharitcharcha (Calcutta, 1992)
  2. ^ [http://www.historians.org/prizes/AWARDED/DefunctWinner.htm AHA Award Recipients: Discontinued Prizes]. American Historical Association. Retrieved on [[2007-07-28]].
  3. ^ "Padma Vibhushan for Bhagwati, V. Krishnamurthy", The Hindu, Jan 27, 2007, p. 1. 
  4. ^ UK General Catalogue. Oxford University Press.
  5. ^ Indian Economic & Social History Review, Vol. 27, No. 3, 370-372 (1990) DOI: 10.1177/001946469002700314[1]
  6. ^ Bengal Under Akbar & Jahangir. Coronet Books.
  7. ^ Walter C. Neale, The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Feb., 1964), pp. 318-320. doi:10.2307/2050166

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