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| awards = [[Rabindra Puraskar]](1988<br/>[[Padma Shri]](1992)<br />
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'''Nisith Ranjan Ray'''(19 November, 1910 – 7 September,1994)<ref name = "Samsad">"Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan Vol.II in Bengali edited by Anjali Bose, published by Sahitya Samsad, Kolkata, India, January 2019 edition Page 198<br />
{{ISBN|978-81-7955-292-6}}</ref><ref name="কলকাতার কড়চা">{{cite news |title=কলকাতার কড়চা: হাওড়া ব্রিজের ৭৫ বছর |url=https://www.anandabazar.com/calcutta/kolkatar-korcha-75-years-of-historic-howrah-bridge-1.758599 |access-date=17 September 2018 |work=Anandabazar Patrika |language=bn}}</ref> was an Indian historian, social activist and the founder of the Society for Preservation, Calcutta, an organisation working for the preservation of the cultural heritage of [[Kolkata]].<ref name="Access to history">{{cite web | url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1101114/jsp/calcutta/story_13165472.jsp | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304125713/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1101114/jsp/calcutta/story_13165472.jsp | url-status=dead | archive-date=4 March 2016 | title=Access to history | newspaper=The Telegraph | date=14 November 2010 | access-date=22 October 2015}}</ref><br />
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Born in [[Mymensingh District]] of the present-day Bangladesh in 1910, Ray taught History at [[Calcutta University]] before joining the [[Victoria Memorial Hall]] in 1971 as its secretary and curator.<ref name="Access to history" /><ref name="telegraph">{{cite news |title=The man who made the heritage tag |work=The Telegraph |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091116/jsp/calcutta/story_11720176.jsp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091121033901/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091116/jsp/calcutta/story_11720176.jsp |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 November 2009 |access-date=2016-01-13 |date=16 November 2009}}</ref> He was one of the founder members of the [[Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi]], the apex body for [[Bengali language]] in [[West Bengal]] and the director of the Institute of Historical Studies, Kolkata.<ref name="Access to history" /> He was the author of several books on history,<ref name="Ray, Nisith Ranjan">{{cite web | url=http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n81089474/ | title=Ray, Nisith Ranjan | publisher=WorldCat | date=2015 | access-date=22 October 2015}}</ref> including ''Bengal: Yesterday and Today'',<ref name="Bengal: Yesterday and Today">{{cite book|title=Bengal: Yesterday and Today |publisher=Papyrus Publishing House |author1=Ray Nisith |author2=Roy Ranjit |year=1998 |pages=132 |isbn=978-8171750092}}</ref><br />
''Calcutta: the Profile of a City'',<ref name="Calcutta: the Profile of a City">{{cite book|title=Calcutta: the Profile of a City |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.12465 |publisher=K. P. Bagchi & Co |author=Nisith Ranjan Ray |year=1986 |asin=B016TVSWQM}}</ref> ''India and Her People: Bengal'',<ref name="India and Her People: Bengal">{{cite book|title=India and Her People: Bengal |publisher=Sangam Books |author=Nisith R. Ray |year=1979 |pages=118 |isbn=978-0861311101}}</ref> ''A History of India''<ref name="A history of India">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wV24AAAAIAAJ | title=A history of India | publisher=Orient Longman |author1=Narendra Krishna Sinha |author2=Nisith Ranjan Ray | year=1973 | pages=613}}</ref> and ''Concise history of the Indian National Congress, 1885-1947''<ref name="Concise history of the Indian National Congress, 1885-1947">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NTIKAQAAIAAJ | title=Concise history of the Indian National Congress, 1885-1947 | publisher=Vikas Publishing House |author1=Nisith Ranjan Ray |author2=Ravindrer Kumar |author3=Manmath Nath Das | year=1985 | pages=322| isbn=9780706930207 }}</ref><br />
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The [[Government of India]] awarded him its fourth-highest civilian honour, the [[Padma Shri]], in 1992.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}</ref> A year of celebrations for the centenary of his birth was opened in November 2009 by the historians [[P. T. Nair]] and [[Amalendu De]].<ref name="telegraph" /><br />
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== Selected bibliography ==<br />
* {{cite book|title=Bengal: Yesterday and Today |publisher=Papyrus Publishing House |author1=Ray Nisith |author2=Roy Ranjit |year=1998 |pages=132 |isbn=978-8171750092}}<br />
* {{cite book|title=Calcutta: the Profile of a City |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.12465 |publisher=K. P. Bagchi & Co |author=Nisith Ranjan Ray |year=1986 |asin=B016TVSWQM}}<br />
* {{cite book|title=India and Her People: Bengal |publisher=Sangam Books |author=Nisith R. Ray |year=1979 |pages=118 |isbn=978-0861311101}}<br />
* {{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wV24AAAAIAAJ | title=A history of India | publisher=Orient Longman |author1=Narendra Krishna Sinha |author2=Nisith Ranjan Ray | year=1973 | pages=613}}<br />
* {{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NTIKAQAAIAAJ | title=Concise history of the Indian National Congress, 1885-1947 | publisher=Vikas Publishing House |author1=Nisith Ranjan Ray |author2=Ravindrer Kumar |author3=Manmath Nath Das | year=1985 | pages=322| isbn=9780706930207 }}<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi]]<br />
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* {{cite web | url=http://www.dkagencies.com/doc/from/1063/to/1123/bkId/DK8263321716213082444062773171/details.html | title=Urbanisation in India :past and present : Professor Nisith Ranjan Ray birth centenary volume | publisher=Institute of Historical Studies | date=2009 | access-date=22 October 2015 | pages=344}}<br />
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