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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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