Prof. Tapan Raychaudhuri

Professor Raychaudhuri retired as Professor of Indian History and Civilization, University of Oxford. He 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. Professor Raychaudhuri's memoir is presently being serialized in the fortnightly vernacular magazine 'Desh'.