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

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