Ananda Chandra Dutta Explained
Ananda Chandra Dutta |
Birth Date: | 1923 2, df=yes[1] |
Birth Place: | Chekonidhara, Jorhat, Assam |
Death Place: | Jorhat, Assam, India |
Nationality: | Indian |
Citizenship: | Indian |
Occupation: | Botanist |
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Ananda Chandra Dutta (8 February 1923 – 16 January 2016) was an Indian botanist[2] of Assam. He was born at Chekonidhara village of Jorhat. He started his career as a teacher in Mariani Middle English High School in 1944–45 and then joined the Tocklai Tea Research Institute in 1947. Dutta played a major role in the establishment of a tea museum at Jorhat in 1977.[1] He has also prepared a list of 10,000 trees for the Tocklai herbarium.[1] He was awarded Degree of Doctor of Science by Dibrugarh University.[2] He died on 16 January 2016 at his own residence in Jorhat.[3]
Life and work
- Started his career in 1944–45 as a teacher at Mariani ME School .
- On 8 February 1947 he joined at Tocklai Experimental Station as Junior Scientific Assistant and retired on 31 March 1983.
- Appointed in Assam Agricultural University as Audio Visual Aid Assistant on 1 April 1983 & continued till Dec 1986.
- Appointed as Photographer at Titabor Sericulture farm for one year (1987–88).
- Established a full-fledged Tea Museum at Tocklai Experimental station.
- Reappointed at Tocklai Experimental Station for one year (1990–91) to prepare the Herbarium Index.
- Appointed as Manager of Gymkhana Club, Jorhat from Aug 1991 to April 1994.
Expertise
- Resource person as Plant Identifier.
- Tea taxonomy & related works.
- Tea Morphology, anatomy, cytology etc.
Published books
- Some Common Weeds of the T.E. in NE India.
- Some Shade Trees, Green crop & Cover Crop Plants in the T.E. of N.E. India.
- Photography (1980) : This is the first book about photography published in Assamese language.
- Dictionary of Economic and Medical Plants (1985)
- Bonoushdhir Goon Aaru Rug Arugyo (2003) (in Assamese)
- Asomor Gos Gosoni (1st Part) (in Assamese)
- Udbhid Upadan (2004)(1st Part) (in Assamese)
External links
Notes and References
- http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=feb1110/city05 "Assam Jatiya Bidyalaya fellowship to AC Dutta"
- http://www.sentinelassam.com/state1/story.php?sec=2&subsec=2&id=110454&dtP=2012-03-16&ppr=1 Ananda Chandra Dutta felicitated at Jorhat
- Web site: Demise of acclaimed botanist Ananda Chandra Dutta mourned . The Sentinel . 17 January 2016 . 22 January 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160127144400/http://www.sentinelassam.com/state1/story.php?sec=2&subsec=2&id=254339&dtP=2016-01-18&ppr=1 . 27 January 2016 .