Carmichael Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture

The Carmichael Chair of Ancient Indian History and Culture is a history professorship in the University of Calcutta, India; its holder is known as Carmichael Professor. The post was created by Ashutosh Mukherjee in 1912 after Baron Carmichael the then Governor of Bengal. The German Indologist George Thibaut was the first to be appointed a Carmichael Professor.^[1]

List of Carmichael Professors

(Year appointed)

1912^[1] George Thibaut
1917^[1] D. R. Bhandarkar
1936^[1] Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri
1952^[1]
1962 Dineshchandra Sircar
1972
1975 B. N. Mukherjee
1998

References

1 2 3 4 5 Harihar Panda (2007). Prof. H. C. Raychaudhuri: As a Historian. Northern Book Centre. pp. 3–. ISBN 978-81-7211-210-3. Retrieved 8 July 2013.

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