Pratul Chandra Gupta: Difference between revisions

| birth_place            = [[Teota]], [[Manikganj District]], [[Bangladesh]]

'''Pratul Chandra Gupta''' (16 January 1910 – 11 March 1990) <ref name = "Samsad">"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}}</ref> was an Indian historian, writer and the author of ''Nana Sahib and the Rising at Cawnpore'',<ref name="Nana Sahib and the rising at Cawnpore">{{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}}</ref> a historical account of the [[siege of Cawnpore]].<ref name="Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies">{{cite web | url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&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}}</ref> Considered by many as an authority on [[Maratha Empire|Maratha history]], he translated ''The Maharashta Purana'', an 18th-century [[Bengali language|Bengali]] text written by Gangaram<ref name="Roy2012">{{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&pg=PA205|date=15 October 2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-57684-0|pages=205–}}</ref> into English, Edward C. Dimock, a known [[Indologist]], being his co-translator.<ref name="The Maharashta Purana">{{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}}</ref> One of his books, ''INA in Military Operation'', was commissioned by [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]<ref name="INA history rots in defence archive">{{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}}</ref> but the book could not be published, reportedly due to political objections.<ref name="Declassify Netaji Files, Demands Legal Aid Forum">{{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}}</ref> ''The Last Peshwa and the English Commissioners, 1818-1851''<ref name="Gupta1944">{{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}}</ref> and ''Shah Alam II and His Court'' are some of his other notable works.<ref name="Antoine-Louis-Henri)1947">{{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}}</ref> The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Bhushan]], in 1975, for his contributions to Literature.<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=2016 | access-date=January 3, 2016}}</ref>