Gautam Bhadra

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Gautam Bhadra (Bengali: গৌতম ভদ্র) is a historian of South Asia and was a member of the erstwhile Subaltern Studies collective. Bhadra was born in Kolkata in 1948. He obtained education at Presidency College (Bengali: প্রেসিডেন্সি কলেজ, কলকাতা), Jadavpur University and Jawaharlal Nehru University (Bengali: জওহরলাল নেহরু বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়).^[1] He started teaching at the Department of History, University of Calcutta (Bengali: কলিকাতা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) and continued there for more than 15 years. After that, he became the professor of history at Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (Bengali: সেন্টার ফর স্টাডিজ ইন সোশাল সায়েন্সেস) (1996-2010). He was the second Tagore National Fellow at the National Library in Kolkata.^[2] Currently he is Honorary Professor at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences (Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre).

Awards and honours

In 2011, Bhadra was conferred with the prestigious Bengali literary award, Ananda Puraskar (Bengali: আনন্দ পুরস্কার), for his book 'Nyara Bot-tolaye Jai Ko-bar?' (Bengali: ন্যাড়া বটতলায় যায় কবার?) ^[3]

References

↑ Chhatim Books. "Gautam Bhadra, Author Profile". Archived from the original on 18 July 2013. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
↑ National Library. "Message from the Director General".
↑ TwoCircles.net. "Historian Gautam Bhadra awarded Bengali literary prize".

[1] Chhatim Books. "Gautam Bhadra, Author Profile". Archived from the original on 18 July 2013. Retrieved 24 April 2015.

[2] National Library. "Message from the Director General".

[3] TwoCircles.net. "Historian Gautam Bhadra awarded Bengali literary prize".

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