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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;|death_place = [[Kolkata]], India&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Pratul Chandra Gupta&#039;&#039;&#039; (16 January 1910 – 11 March 1990) &amp;lt;ref name = &quot;Samsad&quot;&amp;gt;&quot;Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan Vol.II in Bengali edited by Anjali Bose, published by Sahitya Samsad, Kolkata, India, January 2019 edition Page 226{{ISBN|978-81-7955-292-6}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; was an Indian historian, writer and the author of &#039;&#039;Nana Sahib and the Rising at Cawnpore&#039;&#039;,&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Nana Sahib and the rising at Cawnpore&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231986233 | title=Nana Sahib and the rising at Cawnpore | publisher=Oxford: Clarendon Press | author=Pratul Chandra Gupta | year=1964 | pages=227}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; a historical account of the [[siege of Cawnpore]].&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&amp;amp;aid=4078288 | title=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies | publisher=School of Oriental and African Studies | date=2016 | access-date=April 26, 2016}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Considered by many as an authority on [[Maratha Empire|Maratha history]], he translated &#039;&#039;The Maharashta Purana&#039;&#039;, an 18th-century [[Bengali language|Bengali]] text written by Gangaram&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Roy2012&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Kaushik Roy|title=Hinduism and the Ethics of Warfare in South Asia: From Antiquity to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l1IgAwAAQBAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA205|date=15 October 2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-57684-0|pages=205–}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; into English, Edward C. Dimock, a known [[Indologist]], being his co-translator.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;The Maharashta Purana&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book | url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16051180-the-maharashta-purana | title=The Maharashta Purana | publisher=The Association for Asian Studies | author=Edward C. Dimock Jr., Pratul Chandra Gupta | year=1965 | pages=86}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; One of his books, &#039;&#039;INA in Military Operation&#039;&#039;, was commissioned by [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;INA history rots in defence archive&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/INA-history-rots-in-defence-archive/articleshow/50709941.cms | title=INA history rots in defence archive | publisher=Times of India | date=24 January 2016 | access-date=April 26, 2016}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; but the book could not be published, reportedly due to political objections.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Declassify Netaji Files, Demands Legal Aid Forum&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/Declassify-Netaji-Files-Demands-Legal-Aid-Forum/2015/05/24/article2830391.ece | title=Declassify Netaji Files, Demands Legal Aid Forum | publisher=Indian Express | date=24 May 2015 | access-date=April 26, 2016}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &#039;&#039;The Last Peshwa and the English Commissioners, 1818-1851&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Gupta1944&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Pratul Chandra Gupta|title=The Last Peshwa and the English Commissioners, 1818-1851|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A8c9AAAAIAAJ|year=1944|publisher=S.C. Sarkar and Sons Limited}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and &#039;&#039;Shah Alam II and His Court&#039;&#039; are some of his other notable works.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Antoine-Louis-Henri)1947&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Polier (colonel de, Antoine-Louis-Henri)|title=Shah Alam II and His Court: A Narrative of the Transactions at the Court of Delhy from the Year 1771 to the Present Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zf1nCM5IzCoC|year=1947|publisher=S.C. Sarkar and sons}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Bhushan]], in 1975, for his contributions to Literature.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Padma Awards&quot;&amp;gt;{{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=2016 | access-date=January 3, 2016}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Pratul Chandra Gupta&#039;&#039;&#039; (16 January 1910 – 11 March 1990) &amp;lt;ref name = &quot;Samsad&quot;&amp;gt;&quot;Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan Vol.II in Bengali edited by Anjali Bose, published by Sahitya Samsad, Kolkata, India, January 2019 edition Page 226 {{ISBN|978-81-7955-292-6}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; was an Indian historian, writer and the author of &#039;&#039;Nana Sahib and the Rising at Cawnpore&#039;&#039;,&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Nana Sahib and the rising at Cawnpore&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231986233 | title=Nana Sahib and the rising at Cawnpore | publisher=Oxford: Clarendon Press | author=Pratul Chandra Gupta | year=1964 | pages=227}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; a historical account of the [[siege of Cawnpore]].&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&amp;amp;aid=4078288 | title=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies | publisher=School of Oriental and African Studies | date=2016 | access-date=April 26, 2016}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Considered by many as an authority on [[Maratha Empire|Maratha history]], he translated &#039;&#039;The Maharashta Purana&#039;&#039;, an 18th-century [[Bengali language|Bengali]] text written by Gangaram&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Roy2012&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Kaushik Roy|title=Hinduism and the Ethics of Warfare in South Asia: From Antiquity to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l1IgAwAAQBAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA205|date=15 October 2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-57684-0|pages=205–}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; into English, Edward C. Dimock, a known [[Indologist]], being his co-translator.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;The Maharashta Purana&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book | url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16051180-the-maharashta-purana | title=The Maharashta Purana | publisher=The Association for Asian Studies | author=Edward C. Dimock Jr., Pratul Chandra Gupta | year=1965 | pages=86}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; One of his books, &#039;&#039;INA in Military Operation&#039;&#039;, was commissioned by [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;INA history rots in defence archive&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/INA-history-rots-in-defence-archive/articleshow/50709941.cms | title=INA history rots in defence archive | publisher=Times of India | date=24 January 2016 | access-date=April 26, 2016}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; but the book could not be published, reportedly due to political objections.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Declassify Netaji Files, Demands Legal Aid Forum&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/Declassify-Netaji-Files-Demands-Legal-Aid-Forum/2015/05/24/article2830391.ece | title=Declassify Netaji Files, Demands Legal Aid Forum | publisher=Indian Express | date=24 May 2015 | access-date=April 26, 2016}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &#039;&#039;The Last Peshwa and the English Commissioners, 1818-1851&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Gupta1944&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Pratul Chandra Gupta|title=The Last Peshwa and the English Commissioners, 1818-1851|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A8c9AAAAIAAJ|year=1944|publisher=S.C. Sarkar and Sons Limited}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and &#039;&#039;Shah Alam II and His Court&#039;&#039; are some of his other notable works.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Antoine-Louis-Henri)1947&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Polier (colonel de, Antoine-Louis-Henri)|title=Shah Alam II and His Court: A Narrative of the Transactions at the Court of Delhy from the Year 1771 to the Present Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zf1nCM5IzCoC|year=1947|publisher=S.C. Sarkar and sons}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Bhushan]], in 1975, for his contributions to Literature.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Padma Awards&quot;&amp;gt;{{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=2016 | access-date=January 3, 2016}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Career ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Career ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>&gt;Ira Leviton: Fixed typos found with Wikipedia:Typo_Team/moss.</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Fixed typos found with &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/Bharatpedia:Typo_Team/moss&quot; class=&quot;extiw&quot; title=&quot;wikipedia:Typo Team/moss&quot;&gt;Wikipedia:Typo_Team/moss&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Pratul Chandra Gupta&#039;&#039;&#039; ( 16 January&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;,&lt;/del&gt;1910 – 11 March&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;,&lt;/del&gt;1990) &amp;lt;ref name = &quot;Samsad&quot;&amp;gt;&quot;Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan Vol.II in Bengali edited by Anjali Bose, published by Sahitya Samsad, Kolkata, India, January 2019 edition Page 226{{ISBN|978-81-7955-292-6}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; was an Indian historian, writer and the author of &#039;&#039;Nana Sahib and the Rising at Cawnpore&#039;&#039;,&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Nana Sahib and the rising at Cawnpore&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231986233 | title=Nana Sahib and the rising at Cawnpore | publisher=Oxford: Clarendon Press | author=Pratul Chandra Gupta | year=1964 | pages=227}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; a historical account of the [[siege of Cawnpore]].&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&amp;amp;aid=4078288 | title=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies | publisher=School of Oriental and African Studies | date=2016 | access-date=April 26, 2016}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Considered by many as an authority on [[Maratha Empire|Maratha history]], he translated &#039;&#039;The Maharashta Purana&#039;&#039;, an 18th-century [[Bengali language|Bengali]] text written by Gangaram&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Roy2012&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Kaushik Roy|title=Hinduism and the Ethics of Warfare in South Asia: From Antiquity to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l1IgAwAAQBAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA205|date=15 October 2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-57684-0|pages=205–}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; into English, Edward C. Dimock, a known [[Indologist]], being his co-translator.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;The Maharashta Purana&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book | url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16051180-the-maharashta-purana | title=The Maharashta Purana | publisher=The Association for Asian Studies | author=Edward C. Dimock Jr., Pratul Chandra Gupta | year=1965 | pages=86}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; One of his books, &#039;&#039;INA in Military Operation&#039;&#039;, was commissioned by [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;INA history rots in defence archive&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/INA-history-rots-in-defence-archive/articleshow/50709941.cms | title=INA history rots in defence archive | publisher=Times of India | date=24 January 2016 | access-date=April 26, 2016}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; but the book could not be published, reportedly due to political objections.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Declassify Netaji Files, Demands Legal Aid Forum&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/Declassify-Netaji-Files-Demands-Legal-Aid-Forum/2015/05/24/article2830391.ece | title=Declassify Netaji Files, Demands Legal Aid Forum | publisher=Indian Express | date=24 May 2015 | access-date=April 26, 2016}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &#039;&#039;The Last Peshwa and the English Commissioners, 1818-1851&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Gupta1944&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Pratul Chandra Gupta|title=The Last Peshwa and the English Commissioners, 1818-1851|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A8c9AAAAIAAJ|year=1944|publisher=S.C. Sarkar and Sons Limited}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and &#039;&#039;Shah Alam II and His Court&#039;&#039; are some of his other notable works.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Antoine-Louis-Henri)1947&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Polier (colonel de, Antoine-Louis-Henri)|title=Shah Alam II and His Court: A Narrative of the Transactions at the Court of Delhy from the Year 1771 to the Present Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zf1nCM5IzCoC|year=1947|publisher=S.C. Sarkar and sons}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Bhushan]], in 1975, for his contributions to Literature.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Padma Awards&quot;&amp;gt;{{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=2016 | access-date=January 3, 2016}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Pratul Chandra Gupta&#039;&#039;&#039; (16 January 1910 – 11 March 1990) &amp;lt;ref name = &quot;Samsad&quot;&amp;gt;&quot;Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan Vol.II in Bengali edited by Anjali Bose, published by Sahitya Samsad, Kolkata, India, January 2019 edition Page 226{{ISBN|978-81-7955-292-6}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; was an Indian historian, writer and the author of &#039;&#039;Nana Sahib and the Rising at Cawnpore&#039;&#039;,&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Nana Sahib and the rising at Cawnpore&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231986233 | title=Nana Sahib and the rising at Cawnpore | publisher=Oxford: Clarendon Press | author=Pratul Chandra Gupta | year=1964 | pages=227}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; a historical account of the [[siege of Cawnpore]].&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&amp;amp;aid=4078288 | title=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies | publisher=School of Oriental and African Studies | date=2016 | access-date=April 26, 2016}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Considered by many as an authority on [[Maratha Empire|Maratha history]], he translated &#039;&#039;The Maharashta Purana&#039;&#039;, an 18th-century [[Bengali language|Bengali]] text written by Gangaram&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Roy2012&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Kaushik Roy|title=Hinduism and the Ethics of Warfare in South Asia: From Antiquity to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l1IgAwAAQBAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA205|date=15 October 2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-57684-0|pages=205–}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; into English, Edward C. Dimock, a known [[Indologist]], being his co-translator.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;The Maharashta Purana&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book | url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16051180-the-maharashta-purana | title=The Maharashta Purana | publisher=The Association for Asian Studies | author=Edward C. Dimock Jr., Pratul Chandra Gupta | year=1965 | pages=86}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; One of his books, &#039;&#039;INA in Military Operation&#039;&#039;, was commissioned by [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;INA history rots in defence archive&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/INA-history-rots-in-defence-archive/articleshow/50709941.cms | title=INA history rots in defence archive | publisher=Times of India | date=24 January 2016 | access-date=April 26, 2016}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; but the book could not be published, reportedly due to political objections.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Declassify Netaji Files, Demands Legal Aid Forum&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/Declassify-Netaji-Files-Demands-Legal-Aid-Forum/2015/05/24/article2830391.ece | title=Declassify Netaji Files, Demands Legal Aid Forum | publisher=Indian Express | date=24 May 2015 | access-date=April 26, 2016}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &#039;&#039;The Last Peshwa and the English Commissioners, 1818-1851&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Gupta1944&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Pratul Chandra Gupta|title=The Last Peshwa and the English Commissioners, 1818-1851|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A8c9AAAAIAAJ|year=1944|publisher=S.C. Sarkar and Sons Limited}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and &#039;&#039;Shah Alam II and His Court&#039;&#039; are some of his other notable works.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Antoine-Louis-Henri)1947&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Polier (colonel de, Antoine-Louis-Henri)|title=Shah Alam II and His Court: A Narrative of the Transactions at the Court of Delhy from the Year 1771 to the Present Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zf1nCM5IzCoC|year=1947|publisher=S.C. Sarkar and sons}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Bhushan]], in 1975, for his contributions to Literature.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Padma Awards&quot;&amp;gt;{{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=2016 | access-date=January 3, 2016}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>&gt;Dicklyon: case and dash fixes</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;case and dash fixes&lt;/p&gt;
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| name                    = Pratul Chandra Gupta&lt;br /&gt;
| birth_place             = Teota, Manikganj District&lt;br /&gt;
| occupation              = Historian&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Writer&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Academic&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Vice-Chancellor&lt;br /&gt;
| known for               = [[Maratha Empire|Maratha history]]&lt;br /&gt;
| awards                  = [[Padma Bhushan]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Pratul Chandra Gupta&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; ( 16 January,1910 – 11 March,1990) &amp;lt;ref name = &amp;quot;Samsad&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan Vol.II in Bengali edited by Anjali Bose, published by Sahitya Samsad, Kolkata, India, January 2019 edition Page 226{{ISBN|978-81-7955-292-6}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; was an Indian historian, writer and the author of &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Nana Sahib and the Rising at Cawnpore&amp;#039;&amp;#039;,&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Nana Sahib and the rising at Cawnpore&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231986233 | title=Nana Sahib and the rising at Cawnpore | publisher=Oxford: Clarendon Press | author=Pratul Chandra Gupta | year=1964 | pages=227}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; a historical account of the [[siege of Cawnpore]].&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&amp;amp;aid=4078288 | title=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies | publisher=School of Oriental and African Studies | date=2016 | access-date=April 26, 2016}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Considered by many as an authority on [[Maratha Empire|Maratha history]], he translated &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Maharashta Purana&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, an 18th-century [[Bengali language|Bengali]] text written by Gangaram&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Roy2012&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Kaushik Roy|title=Hinduism and the Ethics of Warfare in South Asia: From Antiquity to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l1IgAwAAQBAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA205|date=15 October 2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-57684-0|pages=205–}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; into English, Edward C. Dimock, a known [[Indologist]], being his co-translator.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;The Maharashta Purana&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book | url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16051180-the-maharashta-purana | title=The Maharashta Purana | publisher=The Association for Asian Studies | author=Edward C. Dimock Jr., Pratul Chandra Gupta | year=1965 | pages=86}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; One of his books, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;INA in Military Operation&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, was commissioned by [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;INA history rots in defence archive&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/INA-history-rots-in-defence-archive/articleshow/50709941.cms | title=INA history rots in defence archive | publisher=Times of India | date=24 January 2016 | access-date=April 26, 2016}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; but the book could not be published, reportedly due to political objections.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Declassify Netaji Files, Demands Legal Aid Forum&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/Declassify-Netaji-Files-Demands-Legal-Aid-Forum/2015/05/24/article2830391.ece | title=Declassify Netaji Files, Demands Legal Aid Forum | publisher=Indian Express | date=24 May 2015 | access-date=April 26, 2016}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Last Peshwa and the English Commissioners, 1818-1851&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Gupta1944&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Pratul Chandra Gupta|title=The Last Peshwa and the English Commissioners, 1818-1851|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A8c9AAAAIAAJ|year=1944|publisher=S.C. Sarkar and Sons Limited}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Shah Alam II and His Court&amp;#039;&amp;#039; are some of his other notable works.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Antoine-Louis-Henri)1947&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Polier (colonel de, Antoine-Louis-Henri)|title=Shah Alam II and His Court: A Narrative of the Transactions at the Court of Delhy from the Year 1771 to the Present Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zf1nCM5IzCoC|year=1947|publisher=S.C. Sarkar and sons}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Bhushan]], in 1975, for his contributions to Literature.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Padma Awards&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{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=2016 | access-date=January 3, 2016}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Career ==&lt;br /&gt;
Pratul Chandra Gupta was born in the [http://bangladeshunlocked.blogspot.com.au/2010/08/teota-rajbari.html Teota Rajbari] (the home of his mother&amp;#039;s family) in 1910. He started school in Rangpur and then attended Calcutta&amp;#039;s South Suburban School. He attained an BA Hons. and MA in History from [http://www.presiuniv.ac.in/web/ Presidency College], Calcutta, and, after further study of law, he returned to history. He was one of the first Indians to receive a PhD from a UK university ([[School of Oriental Studies]], [[University of London]], 1936).&lt;br /&gt;
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On his return to India, he became lecturer (1939-1956), and then reader (1957-1961) at the [[University of Calcutta]], and then Professor and Head of the Department of History at [[Jadavpur University]] (1961-1970). He was Vice-Chancellor at [[Visva-Bharati University]], [[Santiniketan]] (1971-1975) and Vice Chancellor at [[Rabindra Bharati University]], Calcutta (1975-1979). &lt;br /&gt;
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Pratul Chandra Gupta was active in several learned societies, and especially in [[The Asiatic Society]] (Calcutta) where he was President 1981–1983. He was a member of the Trustees of the [[Victoria Memorial]], Calcutta 1972–1980. As well as writing scholarly works in English, he published extensively in Bengali, writing stories for children and adults. His autobiography, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Dinguli_Mor.html?id=2pd4PgAACAAJ&amp;amp;redir_esc=y Dinguli Mor]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, was published by Ananda Publishers, Calcutta, in 1985.&lt;br /&gt;
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He died in [[Calcutta]] in 1990.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Family==&lt;br /&gt;
Pratul Chandra Gupta was the eldest son of [http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Gupta,_Atul_Chandra Atul Chandra Gupta] and Savitri Ray. He married Supriya Roy, and had two children, Avijit (born 1942) and Ishani (born 1949). Supriya died in 1956.&lt;br /&gt;
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== See also ==&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Siege of Cawnpore]]&lt;br /&gt;
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