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Tapan Raychaudhuri
Raychaudhuri in November 2009
Born	8 May 1926 Kirtipasha,Barisal District,Bengal Presidency,British India
Died	26 November 2014 (aged 88) Oxford,England
Alma mater	Barisal Zilla School,Barisal Scottish Church College, Calcutta Presidency College, Calcutta Balliol College, Oxford Delhi School of Economics St. Antony's College, Oxford
Awards	Watumull Prize
Scientific career
Fields	History
Doctoral advisors	Dr. C. C. Davies Jadunath Sarkar
Notable students	Gyanendra Pandey,Gowher Rizvi,Rudrangshu Mukherjee

Tapan Raychaudhuri (8 May 1926 – 26 November 2014) was a British-Indianhistorian specializing inBritish Indian history,Indian economic history and theHistory of Bengal.^[1][2]

He was the son of Prativa and Amiya Kumar Raychaudhuri, the lastzamindar ofKirtipasha in Barisal district of eastern Bengal. He came from a well-knownBaidya family. He was a nephew ofKiran Shankar Roy^[3] andHem Chandra Raychaudhuri, through his paternal aunts.^[4]

He was a student ofBallygunge Government High School,Calcutta andBarisal Zilla School,^[5]Scottish Church College, Calcutta, where he completed his I.A. and finallyPresidency College, Calcutta, where he completed his B.A. (Hons.) in history with a high first class.^[5] He completed his firstD.Phil. in History atCalcutta University onBengal Under Akbar and Jahangir^[6] under the supervision ofSirJadunath Sarkar, who was his Additional Supervisor and his second D.Phil. atBalliol College, Oxford, under the supervision of Major (Dr.) C.C. Davies on the trading activities of the Dutch East India Company, which was later published asJan Company in Coromandel.^[7]

He started his career as a lecturer at the Department of Islamic History and Culture, Calcutta University. After his return from Britain, he became a deputy director of theNational Archives of India.^[8] He was a reader and then professor of history and director of theDelhi School of Economics and professor and the head of the department of history ofDelhi University.^[9] He was a key figure in setting up the journal,Indian Economic and Social History Review.^[10]

He was a reader in modern South Asian history from 1973 to 1993 and then ad hominem professor of Indian history and civilization and fellow ofSt. Antony's College, Oxford, from 1992 to 1993.^[1] He was an emeritus fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford, after retirement.^[11] He also served on the inaugural Social Sciences jury for theInfosys Prize in 2009.

He became aNational Research Professor in India in 2011.^[12][13]

• Watumull Prize awarded by theAmerican Historical Association, 1982. (jointly withIrfan Habib) for theCambridge Economic History of India.^[14]
• Doctor of Letters 1993,University of Oxford
• Doctor of Lettershonoris causa by theUniversity of Calcutta^[15]
• Doctor of Lettershonoris causa by theUniversity of Burdwan^{[citation needed]}
• Padma Bhushan in 2007 in recognition to his contributions to history.^[16][17]

He died at home in Oxford (England) on 26 November 2014, after suffering a stroke.^[18]

• —— (1953).Bengal Under Akbar and Jahangir: An Introductory Study in Social History. Calcutta: A. Mukherjee & Co.OCLC 906328391.
• —— (1962).Jan Company in Coromandel, 1605-1690. 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff.OCLC 450671.^[19]
• Raychaudhuri, Tapan; Habib, Irfan, eds. (1982).The Cambridge Economic History of India. Vol. I, c. 1200-c. 1750. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 978-0-521-22802-2.
• —— (1988).Europe Reconsidered: Perceptions of the West in Nineteenth Century Bengal. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0-19-562066-5.^[20]
• —— (1993).Romanthan Athoba Bhimrotiprapter Paracharitcharchaরোমন্থন অথবা ভীমরতিপ্রাপ্তর পরচরিতচর্চা (in Bengali). Kolkata: Ananda.ISBN 978-8177563481.
• —— (2005).Perceptions, Emotions, Sensibilities: Essays on India's Colonial and Post-colonial Experiences. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0-19-567894-9.
• —— (2007).Bangalanama. Kolkata: Ananda.ISBN 978-8177566697.
• —— (2011).The world in our time: a memoir. Noida: Harper Collins Publishers India.ISBN 978-9350291320.

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