Barun De: Difference between revisions

De held various positions at various times, including a senior professorship at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta,<ref name="timesofindia1"/> the founder-directorship of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta and the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies,<ref name="telegraphindia1"/> a membership, held for three terms, of the [[Indian Council of Historical Research]], New Delhi, and the role of honorary state editor of the West Bengal District Gazetteers.<ref name="ihr1">[http://ihr.sagepub.com/content/41/1/147.full.pdf+html "Professor Barun De (1932-2013)" - Sabyasachi Bhattacharya] Indian Historical Review. Retrieved 2015-03-15.</ref> He taught and worked abroad, among other places, at [[Duke University]] as a visiting [[associate professor]], the [[Indian Institute of Advanced Studies]], [[Shimla]], as a senior fellow,<ref name="thestatesman1"/> Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme, [[Paris]] as a [[directeur]], [[University of Sydney]] and [[University of Milan]] as a visiting [[professor]], and the [[University of World Economy and Diplomacy]], [[Tashkent]] as the India Chair (in the rank of minister-counsellor) for three years, with attachment to the Indian Embassy of [[Uzbekistan]],.<ref name="businessstandard1">[http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/historian-barun-de-dies-at-80-113071700809_1.html "Historian Barun De dies at 80" - Business Standard] Retrieved 2015-03-06.</ref> He was secretary (1974-76), sectional president and general president (1988) of the Indian History Congress.<ref name="frontline1"/>