Profile of Professor Tapan Raychaudhuri

Professor Tapan Raychaudhuri is Emeritus Fellow, St. Antony's College, Oxford. Professor Raychaudhuri retired as Professor of Indian History and Civilization, University of Oxford.

Professor Raychaudhuri was educated at Calcutta and Oxford and received D.Phil. from the University of Calcutta and Oxford and D.Litt from Oxford. The Universities of Burdwan and Calcutta conferred on him the D.Litt (honouris causa).

Professor Raychaudhuri has held a number of academic appointments. He taught in the Universities of Calcutta and Delhi; was Professor of History, Delhi University; Professor of Economic History, Delhi School of Economics; Director, Delhi School of Economics. He was also Deputy Director and Acting Director in the National Archives of India, Delhi. Professor Raychaudhuri held visiting professorship at Berkley, Pennsylvania, Harvard, Collegio de Maxico, Ecole Pratique de Hautes Etudes, Paris, Sydney and Perth, among others. He was also visiting fellow to Woodrow Wilson Centre, Washington D.C. and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

In addition to papers in scholarly journals, Professor Raychaudhuri has published Bengal under Akbar and Jahangir; Jan Company in Coromandel, with Irfan Habib; The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. I; Europe Reconsidered: Perception of the West in Nineteenth Century Bengal; Perceptions, Emotions, Sensibilities: Essay on India's Colonial and Post-colonial Experiences and Ramanthan athoba bhimratir prapto parrocharit charca (Bengali). Professor Raychaudhuri's memoir is presently being serialized in the fortnightly vernacular magazine 'Desh'.
He will speak on "Higher Education in Colonial and Post Colonial India: The Dark Side".

Professor Raychaudhuri shall speak at Barrackpore on 'Higher Education in Colonial and Post Colonial India: The Dark Side'

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