Rabindra Puraskar

Rabindra Puraskar

Rabindra Puraskar or Rabindra Smriti Purashkar is the highest honorary literary award given in West Bengal. This award is given by the Government of West Bengal under the aegis of the Paschimbanga Bangla Academy (Bengali Academy of West Bengal), Kolkata.The award is given for creative literature, non-fiction and books about Bengal in other languages. Some of the recipients are mentioned below.

Recipients

*1950 – Satinath Bhaduri - "Jagari" (novel); Nihar Ranjan Ray – "Banglar Itihas", Part I (history)
*1951 – Bibhuti Bhushan Bandyopadhyay – "Ichhamati" (novel) (posthumous)
*1955 – Parashuram – "Krishnakali Ityadi Galpo" (short stories); Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay – "Arogya Niketan" (novel)
*1958 – Premendra Mitra – "Sagar Theke Phera" (poetry)
*1960 – Pramathanath Bishi - "Kerry Saheber Munshi" (novel)
*1962 – Banaphul – "Hate Bazare" (novel)
*1963 – Kalidas Ray
*1964 – Gajendra Kumar Mitra – "Paush Faguner Pala" (novel); Bimal Mitra – "Kadi Diye Kinlam" (novel)
*1965 - Sukumar Sen- "Bharatiya Shahityer Itihas"
*1966 – Ashapurna Devi - "Pratham Pratishruti" (novel)
*1967 – Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay – "Tungabhadrar Teere" (novel); Kalika Ranjan Kanungo – "Rajasthan Kahini" (history)
*1969 – Leela Majumdar - "Aar Konokhane" ; Narayan Sanyal – "Aparupa Ajanta" (cave painting)
*1971 – Ramapada Chaudhuri - "Ekhanoi" (novel)
*1972 – Bibhuti Bhushan Mukhopadhyay – "Ebar Priyambada" (novel); Paresh Chandra Majumdar – "Sanskrita O Prakrita Bhashar Kramabikash" (philology)
*1973 – Jyotirmayi Devi
*1974 – Buddhadeb Basu – "Swagato Biday" (poetry)
*1975 – Achintya Kumar Sengupta – "Uttarayan" (poetry); Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya – "Banglar Kitpatanga" (entomology)
*Unknown - Sri Anirvan - "Veda Mimamsa"
*1979 – Arun Mitra – "Shudhu Rater Shabda Noy" (poetry), [http://www.oswego.edu/academics/colleges_and_departments/departments/history/faculty/forbes.html Geraldine Forbes] – "Positivism in Bengal: A Case Study in the Transmission and Assimilation of an Ideology"
*1982 – Binod Bihari Mukhopadhyay – "Chitrakar" (painting)
*1986 – Radharani Devi – "Aparajita Rachanabali" (complete works)
*1989 – Shankha Ghosh – "Dhum Legechhe Hrit-kamale" (poetry)
*2000 – Annada Shankar Ray - "Nabbai Periye" (memoirs), Manini Chattopadhyay – "Do or Die : The Chittagong Uprising (1930-34)"
*2006 – Ralph W. Nicholas – "Fruits of Worship: Practical Religion in Bengal"

ee also

* Ananda Purashkar

External links

* [http://www.caorc.org/news/highlights/aiis/aiis-2006-07-19.htm Report of 2006 award - "President of AIIS receives Distinguished Award", Council of American Overseas Research Centers]
* [http://zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=360609&sid=REG Nandigram issue: Left intellectuals to return Rabindra Puraskar] , Zee News(India Edition)
* [http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14411143 Left historians return awards to WB govt] ,Sify News


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