Professor Maheswar Neog (7 September 1915 – 13 September 1995) was an Indian academic who specialised in the cultural history of the North East India especially Assam, besides being an Assamese-language scholar and poet.[1][2][3][4] He was a top Indologist, and his work covers all disciplines of Indian studies, folk-lore, language, dance, history, music, religion, drama, fine arts, paintings, historiography and hagiography, lexicography and orthography, epigraphy and ethnography. His research includes multi-dimensional features of Vaishnava renaissance in Assam through Srimanta Sankardev, Madhabdev, Damodardev, Haridev, Bhattadev and other Vaishnava saints of Assam.[5]
An editorial in The Assam Tribune called him "a versatile scholar and visionary thinker with encyclopedic range."[6] He remained Jawaharlal Nehru Professor at Gauhati University and later Saint Sankaradeva Professor at Punjabi University.
He was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour in 1974,[7] also in the same year he remained the President of Asam Sahitya Sabha (Assam Literary Society).[8] In 1994, he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship the highest honour conferred by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama.[9]
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^Bipuljyoti Saikia (7 September 1915). "Bipuljyoti Saikia's Homepage : Authors & Poets – Maheswar Neog". Bipuljyoti.in. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
^"DU VC delivers Maheswar Neog lecture". The Assam Tribune Online. 14 September 2011. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
^"IGNCA Library Maheswar Neog's Collection of Books | IGNCA". ignca.gov.in. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
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^"Padma Awards Directory (1954–2013)" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015.
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Professor MaheswarNeog (7 September 1915 – 13 September 1995) was an Indian academic who specialised in the cultural history of the North East India...
was Chandraprabha Neog. He had two brothers - noted scholar MaheswarNeog and Mukheswar Neog. While at Cotton College, he came into contact with poets like...
arranged it when he was 19 years old, which is unlikely according to MaheswarNeog. (Neog 1980, p. 107) But Bhuban Chandra Bhuyan, Dr. Sanjib Kumar Borkakoti...
Kamrupa 1933, p. 271. (Neog 2008:57) "It is supposed to have been written in 1586 saka (1664 AD)"(Neog 1980:29) MaheswarNeog states that the Adi-cwita...
University published a third edition of this dictionary, edited by MaheswarNeog and Upendranath Goswami. Chandrakanta Abhidhan is available online since...
Retrieved 7 June 2013. MaheswarNeog (1980). Early History of the Vaiṣṇava Faith and Movement in Assam: Śaṅkaradeva and ... – MaheswarNeog – Google Books. Motilal...
Jyotiprasad Medhi, former head and professor of statistics department. MaheswarNeog, former professor N. U. Prabhu, former lecturer Bhabendra Nath Saikia...
Archived from the original on 14 July 2013. Retrieved 24 April 2013. MaheswarNeog (1972). Lakshminath Bezbaroa: the Sāhityarathī of Assam. Dept. of Publication;...
about Darrang are available for the pre-medieval period. According to MaheswarNeog, the Darrang became mentioned only after the uprising of the king Nara...
Handbook of Asian Theatre. Routledge. pp. 19–21. ISBN 978-1-317-27886-3. MaheswarNeog (1980). Early History of the Vaiṣṇava Faith and Movement in Assam: Śaṅkaradeva...
Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2013. MaheswarNeog (1976). Annals of Asam Sahitya-Sabha, 1917-1975. Asam Sahitya-Sabha:...
(1977), Planter-Raj to Swaraj, Indian Council of Historical Research Neog, Maheswar (1977), Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Bhandarkar...
Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India. Duke University Press. p. 263. ISBN 978-0-8223-5049-1. Neog, Maheswar (1980). Anandaram Dhekiyal Phukan....
and Indian linguists and scholars including George Abraham Grierson, MaheswarNeog and Banikanta Kakati opine Bishnupriya as a dialect of Assamese language...
Bhanjan, his other dramas are called Jumuras. Songs : Borgeet, Bhotima. Neog, Maheswar, Early History of the Vaishnavite Faith and Movement in Assam, p. 123...
University of New York Press, ISBN 978-1438428420, pages 302-303, 318 Neog, Maheswar (1980). Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Assam:...
The mind of the readers was thus treated to a very much rich fare. — MaheswarNeog, Bhagavati Prasad Baruva: Writings of and on Him, 1983 Oliver Thomas...
incident must have happened during Suklenmung has been worked out by MaheswarNeog (Neog 1980, p. 62). Some historical chronicles record that this happened...
English), (d) Journal of the University of Gauhati : Arts (in English) (MaheswarNeog and Bhaben Barua jointly edited the two volumes of this journal), (e)...
(1998, 516), and Richmond, Swann, and Zarrilli (1993, 12). (Neog 1980, p. 246) Neog, Maheswar (1975). Assamese Drama and Theatre: A Series of Two Lectures...
1997:31) (Neog 1974:155) Phukan, J.N. (1997), Studies in some aspects of inscriptions of the Ahom kings, Gauhati University Neog, Maheswar (1974), Prachya-sasanavali...
Publications. pp. 165–. ISBN 978-81-7099-207-3. Retrieved 7 June 2013. MaheswarNeog (1972). Lakshminath Bezbaroa: the sāhityarathī of Assam. Dept. of Publication...
Manoharlal Phukan, J.N. (1997), Studies in some aspects of inscriptions of the Ahom kings, Gauhati University Neog, Maheswar (1974), Prachya-sasanavali...
published by the University of Guwahati in 1987 duly edited by Dr. MaheswarNeog and Dr. Upendranath Goswami. Another Assamese dictionary called Adhunik...
History of Assam, New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd. Neog, Maheswar (1980). Early History of the Vaiṣṇava Faith and Movement in Assam: Śaṅkaradeva...
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