Pratul Chandra Gupta

Pratul Chandra Gupta
Born India
Occupation Historian
Writer
Academic
Known for Maratha history
Awards Padma Bhushan

Pratul Chandra Gupta is an Indian historian, writer and the author of Nana Sahib and the rising at Cawnpore,[1] a historical account of the Siege of Cawnpore.[2] Considered by many as an authority on Maratha history, he translated The Maharashta Purana, an 18th century Bengali text written by Gangaram[3] into English, Edward C. Dimock, a known Indologist, being his co-translator.[4] One of his books, INA in Military Operation, was commissioned by Jawaharlal Nehru[5] but the book could not be published, reportedly due to political objections.[6] The Last Peshwa and the English Commissioners, 1818-1851[7] and Shah Alam II and His Court are some of his other notable works.[8] The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 1975, for his contributions to Literature.[9]

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References

  1. Pratul Chandra Gupta (1964). Nana Sahib and the rising at Cawnpore. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 227.
  2. "Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies". School of Oriental and African Studies. 2016. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
  3. Kaushik Roy (15 October 2012). Hinduism and the Ethics of Warfare in South Asia: From Antiquity to the Present. Cambridge University Press. pp. 205–. ISBN 978-1-139-57684-0.
  4. Edward C. Dimock Jr., Pratul Chandra Gupta (1965). The Maharashta Purana. The Association for Asian Studies. p. 86.
  5. "INA history rots in defence archive". Times of India. 24 January 2016. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
  6. Pratul Chandra Gupta (1944). The Last Peshwa and the English Commissioners, 1818-1851. S.C. Sarkar and Sons Limited.
  7. Polier (colonel de, Antoine-Louis-Henri) (1947). Shah Alam II and His Court: A Narrative of the Transactions at the Court of Delhy from the Year 1771 to the Present Time. S.C. Sarkar and sons.
  8. "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2016. Retrieved January 3, 2016.

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