Nisith Ranjan Ray Explained

Nisith Ranjan Ray
Birth Place:Iswarganj, Mymensingh District, British India
Occupation:Historian
Known For:Indian history
Awards:Rabindra Puraskar(1988
Padma Shri(1992)

Nisith Ranjan Ray(19 November, 1910 – 7 September,1994)[1] [2] was an Indian historian, social activist and the founder of the Society for Preservation, Calcutta, an organisation working for the preservation of the cultural heritage of Kolkata.[3]

Born in Mymensingh District of the present-day Bangladesh in 1910, Ray taught History at Calcutta University before joining the Victoria Memorial Hall in 1971 as its secretary and curator.[4] He was one of the founder members of the Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi, the apex body for Bengali language in West Bengal and the director of the Institute of Historical Studies, Kolkata. He was the author of several books on history,[5] including Bengal: Yesterday and Today,[6] Calcutta: the Profile of a City,[7] India and Her People: Bengal,[8] A History of India[9] and Concise history of the Indian National Congress, 1885-1947[10]

The Government of India awarded him its fourth-highest civilian honour, the Padma Shri, in 1992.[11] A year of celebrations for the centenary of his birth was opened in November 2009 by the historians P. T. Nair and Amalendu De.

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  1. "Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan Vol.II in Bengali edited by Anjali Bose, published by Sahitya Samsad, Kolkata, India, January 2019 edition Page 198
  2. News: কলকাতার কড়চা: হাওড়া ব্রিজের ৭৫ বছর . 17 September 2018 . Anandabazar Patrika . bn.
  3. Web site: Access to history . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304125713/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1101114/jsp/calcutta/story_13165472.jsp . dead . 4 March 2016 . The Telegraph . 14 November 2010 . 22 October 2015.
  4. News: The man who made the heritage tag . The Telegraph . https://web.archive.org/web/20091121033901/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091116/jsp/calcutta/story_11720176.jsp . dead . 21 November 2009 . 2016-01-13 . 16 November 2009.
  5. Web site: Ray, Nisith Ranjan . WorldCat . 2015 . 22 October 2015.
  6. Book: Bengal: Yesterday and Today . Papyrus Publishing House . Ray Nisith . Roy Ranjit . 1998 . 132 . 978-8171750092.
  7. Book: Calcutta: the Profile of a City . K. P. Bagchi & Co . Nisith Ranjan Ray . 1986 . B016TVSWQM.
  8. Book: India and Her People: Bengal . Sangam Books . Nisith R. Ray . 1979 . 118 . 978-0861311101.
  9. Book: A history of India . Orient Longman . Narendra Krishna Sinha . Nisith Ranjan Ray . 1973 . 613.
  10. Book: Concise history of the Indian National Congress, 1885-1947 . Vikas Publishing House . Nisith Ranjan Ray . Ravindrer Kumar . Manmath Nath Das . 1985 . 322. 9780706930207 .
  11. Web site: Padma Awards . Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India . 2015 . 21 July 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf . 15 October 2015 .

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