Sudhir Chakraborty


'''Sudhir Chakravarti is a Bengali educationist and essayist. He has made a vast contribution in Bengal's folk culturer's development and research. He played the lead role in bringing up the folk culture of Bengal in an international platform.

Early life and career

Sudhir Chakravarti was born in 19 September 1934 at Shibpur. His father's name was Ramaprasad Chakravarti and his mother Beenapani Chakravarti. He was the youngest of the nine sons of Ramaprasad. Due to the fear of the Japanese bombardings in Calcutta Chakravarti's father had shifted to Dignagar, Nadia, from Shibpur, Howrah in his childhood. After that his family came to Krishnanagar, Nadia. Chakravarti completed his studies in Calcutta University and in 1966 married Nivedita Chakravarti.Chakravarti is known for his research works on Folk religion, Lalan Fakir and Cultural Anthropology in Bengal. He spent 30 years researching the folk culture by traveling to different villages all over the West Bengal. He was a professor of Bengali literature since 1958 to 1994,but even after retirement kept on teaching until 2011.Chakravarti worked in Krishnagar Government College, guest lecturer of Jadavpur University and also associated with the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata. He wrote and edited more than 85 books on various subjects like music, art, folk-religion, cultural anthropology. He was the editor of Bengali literary Magazine Dhrubapada.

Works

Chakravarti received the Ananda Purashkar in 2002 for his book Baul Fakir Katha and the Sahitya Akademi Award 2004. He got the awards of Eminent Teacher from Calcutta University in 2006, Narasimha Das award and the Dr. Sukumar Sen Gold Medal from the Asiatic Society. He has also been awarded by the Tagore research Institute the title of Rabindratatvacharya.