- 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 thePaschimbanga 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
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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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