Английская Википедия:Bidhu Bhusan Das
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Bidhu Bhusan Das, also spelled Bidhubhusan Das[1] (11 April 1922 – 2 June 1999), was a public intellectual, educator, professor, senior government official, and university president/Vice Chancellor from India.
Background and education
Bidhubhusan Das was born in Puri, Orissa, in 1922, the eldest child of Rai Bahadur Durga Charan Das, a senior government official in both British India and independent India,[2] and the poet Nirmala Devi.[3][4] Das received an A.M. from Columbia UniversityШаблон:Citation needed and an M.Litt. from Christ Church, Oxford University.[5] Earlier, he earned an M.A. in English from Patna University.Шаблон:Citation needed
Career
Das started teaching in Ravenshaw University in 1944. He became Sonepur Professor of English at Ravenshaw in 1950.[6] In 1959, he was appointed Advisor to King Mahendra of Nepal as part of the Indian Aid Mission under the Colombo Plan, and wrote the entire set of statutes that established Kathmandu's Tribhuvan University. He was Principal of Ranchi College (now Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee University) from 1963 to 1968, and Principal of Ravenshaw University in 1968. After this, from 1968 until 1980, he was Director of Public Instruction and Vice Chancellor of Utkal University.[7] Das taught English and American literature, comparative literature, linguistics and philosophy at Ravenshaw, Tribhuvan, Ranchi, Utkal and NEHU (Shillong) Universities. He was appointed advisor to chief minister Jamir of Nagaland and helped set up Nagaland University, a central university, in 1989.[8]
Family
Das and his wife, Prabhat Nalini Das, had three children, including Oopali Operajita.[9] Das's maternal aunt was the leader, feminist, writer and social activist Sarala Devi.[10] Das's maternal uncle, Nityanand Kanungo, was a prominent Indian politician from the state of Odisha.[11]
Publications
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Further reading
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Thacker's Indian Directory (p 23), 1935.
- ↑ Panchami Manoo Ukil, Nirmala Devi: The Mystic Odia Poet, Odisha Story Bureau, 19 August 2016.
- ↑ Sachidananda Mohanty (ed), "Early Women's Writings in Orissa, 1898-1950,SAGE Publications, 2005."
- ↑ Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. "A Study of L.H. Myers as a Philosophical Novelist." | Das, B., M.Litt., author || University of Oxford, degree granting institution | ; | 1950 || Thesis (M.Litt.) - University of Oxford, 1950 (Faculty of English Language and Literature; Christ Church.) || ix, 246 leaves; 27 cm. Graduated 19 October 1948. Degree conferred 15 July 1950, in absence.
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- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ http://magazines.odisha.gov.in/Orissareview/2014/August/engpdf/43-45.pdf. Шаблон:Webarchive
- ↑ http://www.rajbhavan.gujarat.gov.in/honorable-governors/past-governor-details.aspx?PastGovernerId=2# Шаблон:Webarchive.
