Dinesh Chandra Sinha

Dinesh Chandra Sinha
Dr. Dinesh Chandra Sinha
দীনেশচন্দ্র সিংহ

Dr. Dinesh Chandra Sinha
Born 1935
Noakhali, Bengal, British India
Nationality Indian
Ethnicity Bengali Hindu
Occupation Folklorist, Historian
Religion Hinduism

Dr. Dinesh Chandra Sinha (Bengali: দীনেশচন্দ্র সিংহ) is an Indian scholar, academic, folklorist and historian known for his research on the kavigan of eastern Bengal.

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Early life

Sinha was born in 1935, in the village of Sindurkait-Babupur, in the district of Noakhali in undivided Bengal, now in Bangladesh. At the age of eleven he became a victim of the Noakhali genocide when his ancestral house was looted and his family had to flee Noakhali. After the Partition, he migrated to Kolkata.

Career

He joined the university service in the University of Calcutta. While in the service, he pursued his studies and research and obtained his doctoral degree. He was awarded the Sir Asutosh Gold Medal, Sarojini Basu Gold Medal and Griffith Memorial Prize for research work on different topics. He retired as the Deputy Registrar of the University of Calcutta in 1995. He has been the editor of Bengali literary magazine Krishanu since 1968.

Books

  • Ashutosh Mukhopadhyayer Shikshachinta[1]
  • Noakhalir Mati O Manush
  • Kabiyal: Kabigan (1977)
  • Purbabanger Kabigan
  • Purbabanger Kabiyal Kabisangeet (1990‌)
  • Purbabanger Kabigan Samgraha O Paryalochana
  • Shyamaprasad: Bangabhanga O Paschimbanga (2000)
  • Nakuleshwar Geetimalya (edited)

Honours

  • Sir Asutosh Gold Medal
  • Sarojini Basu Gold Medal
  • Griffith Memorial Prize

References

  1. ^ "University Publications A". University of Calcutta. http://www.caluniv.ac.in/univpublication/publicatnA.htm. Retrieved September 17, 2011. 

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