Maheswar Neog Explained

Maheswar Neog
Birth Date:7 September 1915
Birth Place:Sibsagar, Assam, India
Occupation:Professor and Writer
Parents:Manik Chandra Neog and Chandra Probha Neog

Professor Maheswar Neog (7 September 1915 – 13 September 1995) was an Indian academic who specialised in the cultural history of the North East India especially Assam, besides being an Assamese-language scholar and poet.[1] [2] [3] [4] He was a top Indologist, and his work covers all disciplines of Indian studies, folk-lore, language, dance, history, music, religion, drama, fine arts, paintings, historiography and hagiography, lexicography and orthography, epigraphy and ethnography. His research includes multi-dimensional features of Vaishnava renaissance in Assam through Srimanta Sankardev, Madhabdev, Damodardev, Haridev, Bhattadev and other Vaishnava saints of Assam.[5]

An editorial in The Assam Tribune called him "a versatile scholar and visionary thinker with encyclopedic range."[6] He remained Jawaharlal Nehru Professor at Gauhati University and later Saint Sankaradeva Professor at Punjabi University.

He was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour in 1974,[7] also in the same year he remained the President of Asam Sahitya Sabha (Assam Literary Society).[8] In 1994, he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship the highest honour conferred by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama.[9]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Mukunda Madhava Sharma. Satyanarayana Ratha. Dr. Maheswar Neog: A Profile and a Short Bibliography. 1974. Lawyer's Book Stall.
  2. Web site: Professor Maheswar Neog . Assaminfo.com . 10 February 2014.
  3. Web site: Bipuljyoti Saikia . Bipuljyoti Saikia's Homepage : Authors & Poets – Maheswar Neog . Bipuljyoti.in . 7 September 1915 . 10 February 2014.
  4. Web site: DU VC delivers Maheswar Neog lecture . The Assam Tribune Online . 14 September 2011 . 10 February 2014 . 22 February 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140222022637/http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=sep1411/city07 . dead .
  5. Web site: IGNCA Library Maheswar Neog's Collection of Books IGNCA. 2021-11-15. ignca.gov.in.
  6. Web site: Dhruvajyoti Barua . Dr Maheswar Neog's contribution to GU. The Assam Tribune Online . 13 September 2009 . 10 February 2014.
  7. Web site: Padma Awards Directory (1954–2013) . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf . 15 October 2015 .
  8. Web site: List of Asam Sahitya Sabha presidents . 7 December 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130129233721/http://www.asamsahityasabha.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=56 . 29 January 2013 . dead .
  9. Web site: SNA: List of Sangeet Natak Akademi Ratna Puraskarwinners (Akademi Fellows) . SNA Official website . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141206222925/http://www.sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/fellowslist.htm . 6 December 2014 .

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