Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya
Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya was educated at the University of Calcutta, and later obtained his PhD at Cambridge. He taught, till his retirement in 2004, at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Other Universities where he taught are: Burdwan University and Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan.
Professor Chattopadhyaya is the recipient of many awards and fellowships such as the Indo-US Fellowship at Chicago University (1986), German Academic Exchange Fellowship (DAAD) at the Universities of Heidelberg and Kiel (1991), and Visiting Professorship at the University of Leipzig (1996–7). He was awarded the Prix Duchalais by the Akademie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Institut De France in 1978 for his book Coins and Currency Systems in South India, the H.C. Raychaudhuri Birth Centenary Gold Medal by the Asiatic Society, Bengal in 2002. He was invited by All Souls College, Oxford, to deliver the S. Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures for 2011–12. He also delivered the Nirlepananda Endowment Lecture in the Department of Ancient Indian History & Culture, University of Calcutta. In 2014–15, he was awarded a National Fellowship by the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. Professor Chattopadhyaya was elected as the General President of Indian History Congress for the year 2014.
His published books include Coins and Currency Systems in South India (1977); Aspects of Rural Settlements and Rural Society in Early Medieval India (1990); The Making Of Early Medieval India (1994); Representing the Other? Sanskrit Sources and the Muslims (1998), and Studying Early India: Archaeology, Texts and Historical Issues (2003), The Concept of Bharatavarsha and Other Essays (2017). The volumes edited by him include D.D.Kosambi, Combined Methods in Indology and other Writings (2002, 2009), and A Social History of Early India (2008) and those co-edited by him include A Sourcebook of Indian Civilization (2000) and Inscriptions and Agrarian Issues in Indian History, Essays in Memory of D.C.Sircar (2017). You can read more of his work here and here.
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