Jadunath Sarkar
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| Sir Jadunath Sarkar | |
|---|---|
| Born | 10 December 1870 Karachmaria, Singra, Natore, British India |
| Died | 19 May 1958 Calcutta, India |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Spouse(s) | Kadambini, Lady Sarkar |
Sir Jadunath Sarkar CIE (10 December 1870 - 19 May 1958) was a prominent Indian Bengali aristocrat and historian.
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Life and career
Born in Karachmaria village, he was the son of Rajkumar Sarkar, the Zamindar of Karachmaria in Natore in Bengal. In 1891, he passed the B.A. examination with honours in English and History from Presidency College, Calcutta. In 1892, he stood First in the First Class in the M.A. examination of Calcutta University in English. In 1897, he received the Premchand-Roychand Scholarship.[1]
He became a teacher in English literature in 1893 at Ripon College, Kolkata (later renamed Surendranath College). In 1898, he started teaching at Presidency College, Calcutta. In 1899, he was transferred to Patna College, Patna, where he would continue teaching until 1926. In between, in 1917-1919, he taught Modern Indian History in Benaras Hindu University and during 1919-1923 he taught in Ravenshaw College, Cuttack, now in Odisha. In 1923, he became an honorary member of the Royal Asiatic Society of London. In August 1926, he was appointed as the Vice Chancellor of Calcutta University. In 1928, he joined as Sir W. Meyer Lecturer in Madras University.
Sarkar was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) and knighted in the 1929 Birthday Honours list.[2] He was invested with his knighthood at Simla by the acting Viceroy, Lord Goschen, on 22 August 1929.[3]
Legacy
The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta[4] an autonomous research centre has been located at 10, Lake Terrace, Sarkar's house, from 1973 to 2000. This house was handed over to the state government by Sarkar's wife, Lady Kadambini Sarkar, just before she passed away. The building now houses the newly established Jadunath Sarkar Resource Centre for Historical Research, which has been established under the aegis of the CSSSC. The Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, a museum-cum-archive was set up at Jadunath Bhavan on 1 February 2015.[5]
Academically, Jos J. L. Gommans compares Sarkar's work with those of the Aligarh historians, noting that while the historians from the Aligarh worked mainly on the Mansabdari system and Gunpowder technology in the Mughal Empire, Sarkar concentrated on Military tactics and Sieges.[6] Kaushik Roy notes that the works of Jadunath Sarkar along with those of Jagadish Narayan Sarkar are now "forgotten due to pressure of Marxism and Postmodernism".[7]
Publications
Books
- A History of Jaipur (1984)
- The Fall of the Mughal Empire (in 4 volumes), (1932–38)
- Military History of India
- The House of Shivaji
- The Rani of Jhansi
- Famous Battles of Indian History
- Chronology of Indian History
- Shivaji (in Bengali)
- History of Aurangzib (in 5 volumes), (1912–24)[8]
- Mughal Administration (1920)
- Shivaji and his Times (1919)
- Anecdotes of Aurangzib
- Studies in Mughal India
- India of Aurangzib (1901)
- A Short History of Aurangzib
- A History of Bengal
Edited books
- Later Mughals by William Irvine (in 2 volumes), (1922)
- Edited, translated and compiled the collection of Mirza Raja Jai Singh I's letters titled Haft Anjuman.
References
- ↑ Encyclopaedia Britannica: Sir Jadunath Sarkar
- ↑ The London Gazette, 3 June 1929
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- ↑ Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
- ↑ Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre
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Further reading
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External links
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- Sir Sarkar at Britannica Encyclopedia
- Works by Jadunath Sarkar at Project Gutenberg
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- Presidency University, Kolkata alumni
- Bengali historians
- Bengali zamindars
- Presidency University, Kolkata faculty
- Historians of South Asia
- Indian historians
- People from Natore District
- Rajshahi College alumni
- University of Calcutta alumni
- University of Calcutta faculty
- Vice Chancellors of the University of Calcutta
- 1870 births
- 1958 deaths
- Knights Bachelor
- Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire
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