Indian archaeologist, museologist, art historian and professor of Sanskrit
Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya
Born
Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya (1919-02-01)1 February 1919 Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died
11 June 2016(2016-06-11) (aged 97) Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Occupation
Archaeologist, Museologist, Art Historian
Alma mater
Calcutta University
Notable works
A Corpus of Dedicatory Inscriptions from Temples of West Bengal[1]
Notable awards
Padma Shri
Spouse
Sabita Bhattacharyya[2]
Children
3
Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya (1 February 1919 – 11 June 2016) was an Indian archaeologist, museologist, art historian and professor of Sanskrit. He was the Director of the Indian Museum, Kolkata for a decade till his retirement.[3][4] The Indian government awarded him Padma Shri in April 2017 posthumously.
Bhattacharyya has to his credit 29 published books[5] on various aspects of art, archaeology, epigraphy and numismatics and hundreds of research articles in journals across the world. In 2012, he was awarded the Acharya Hemchandra Suri Samman Puraskar, New Delhi for his outstanding contribution to Jaina iconography.[6]
^Bhattacharyya, A. K. (Asoke Kumar) 1919- WorldCat Identities
^Chakraborty, Amalendu (2017). "Progeny of Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya". Indian Culture – Multifacet Research – Commemoration Volume in Honour of Professor A. K. Bhattacharyya. Bharatiya Kala Prakashan: Kolkata. p. xvii. ISBN 978-8180903175.
^Bhattacharyya, Asoke Kumar (8 February 1968). "Chambā rumāl". Indian Museum – via Google Books.
^Bhattacharyya, Asoke Kumar (8 February 1995). A Pageant of Indian Culture: Art and Archaeology. Abhinav Publications. ISBN 9788170172734 – via Google Books.
^"Amazon.com: A. K. Bhattacharyya: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle". www.amazon.com.
^"Dkagencies". Dkagencies.
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