Barun De: Difference between revisions

Dey was a member of a Bengali (বাঙালি) Hindu (হিন্দু) Uttar Rarhi Kayastha (উত্তর রার্হি কায়স্থ)-Brahmo (ব্রাহ্ম) family of Calcutta.<ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130718/jsp/calcutta/story_17126553.jsp |title=Historian Barun De dead |date=18 July 2013 |accessdate=2016-08-15}}</ref><ref name="HT20130718">{{cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/kolkata/Historian-Barun-De-passes-away/Article-1094187.aspx |date=18 July 2013 |title=Historian Barun Dey passes away |publisher=Hindustan Times |accessdate=4 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131010131755/http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/kolkata/Historian-Barun-De-passes-away/Article-1094187.aspx |archivedate=10 October 2013 }}</ref> He was the son of [[Draft: Basanta Kumar De|Basanta Kumar Dey]], a senior of the Bengal Nagpur Railways<ref name="frontline1">[http://www.frontline.in/other/obituary/historian-and-administrator/article4995294.ece "Historian and Administrator" - Aniruddha Ray] Retrieved 2015-03-03</ref> and Pramila Dey (nee Gupta). His paternal grandfather was the Persianist and civil servant, [[Brajendranath De|Brajendranath Dey]], who edited and translated Nizamuddin Ahmed's ''Tabaqat-i-Akbari'' from Persian to English<ref name="vmh">[http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/official_info/victoria_newsletter_feb2014.pdf Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, 'Obituary' in the ''Victoria Memorial Newsletter'', 2014]</ref> while his maternal granduncle, Amritalal Gupta (অমৃতলাল গুপ্ত), was the Acharya (আচার্য) of the Dacca Brahmo Samaj, who wrote ''Cheleder Katha'' (''ছেলেদের কথা'') and ''Punnyabati Nari'' (''পূণ্যবতি নারী'').