Barun De: Difference between revisions

Soon after his retirement De was once again appointed as the director of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta. From 1997-1998, he was the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad fellow

of this institute.<ref name="telegraphindia1"/> He was a member of the Indian Council of Cultural Relations in this period. From 1998-2001 he was the India Chair (in the rank of minister-counsellor), with attachment to the Indian Embassy of Uzbekistan, at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent.<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>  

In this period he was a member of the textbook review committee of the National Council for Educational Research and Training (2004).<ref>[http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/arjun-singh-appoints-panel-to-review-ncert-textbooks/1/196584.html ''India Today'', 2004]</ref> chairman of the West Bengal State Archives, Calcutta,<ref name="businessstandard1"/> vice president of the Center for Archaeology and Training, Calcutta, a vice president of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,<ref name="frontline1"/>

He was a member of the Heritage Conservation Committee of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, in which capacity he was among the several people who prepared a list of heritage buildings of West Bengal.<ref>[https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/downloads/Graded_List_of_Heritage_Buildings_Grade_I_IIA_IIB.pdf "Heritage Conservation Committee"] p. 3. Retrieved 2015-03-23</ref> ''[[The Times of India]]'' has described him as "a pioneer of the heritage movement of West Bengal"<ref name="timesofindia1">[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Historian-scholar-Barun-De-dies-at-80/articleshow/21156245.cms "The Times of India" - Staff Reporter] Retrieved 2015-02-27.</ref> From 2001-2008 he was a member of the West Bengal Heritage Commission of which he was the honorary chairman (in the rank of minister-of-state) from 2008-2011.<ref name="businessstandard1"/>  

From  2011-2013 he was a Tagore national fellow, which he held at the Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta.<ref name="victoriamemorialnewsletter1">[http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/official_info/victoria_newsletter_feb2014.pdf "Obituary" in the ''Victoria Memorial Newsletter'' - Sabyasachi Bhattacharya] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226153443/http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/official_info/victoria_newsletter_feb2014.pdf |date=2015-02-26 }} Retrieved 2015-0317.</ref>