Faculty Member

Pranabananda Jash
Professor of Archaeology
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Department
Ancient Indian History Culture and Archaeology

Areas of Specialisation
Religious and Cultural History of India and Southeast Asia

Numismatic and Epigraphy


   

 

Date of Birth 15th September 1943
Qualification
Year Degree College/University
1964
B.A.(Hons.) Visva Bharati
1966 M.A
Visva-Bharati
1972 Ph.D Visva-Bharati
1985 D.Litt Visva Bharati
Research Projects, Papers and Books

Glimpses of Hindu Cults and Culture , New Delhi , 1998
History of the Parivrajaka , New Delhi , 1991
Some Aspects of Jainism in Eastern India , New Delhi , 1989
History and Evolution of Vaishanavism in Eastern India , Calcutta , 1982
History of Saivism , Calcutta , 1974

Teaching Experience
32 years in Visva Bharati
Awards and other Academic Dintinctions
Sectional President ( Ancient India ) , Paschimvanga Itihasa Samsad , 1993
Advisor for the Indological Studies , Ramkrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Golpark , Calcutta
Members of the Academic / Executive / Court of the University
Former Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences ( Vidya Bhavana )
Head of the Department of AIHC & A, etc.
Other Co-curricular Interests
Organised dozen of National and International Seminar / Conferences in Visva Bharati
Any other information
Written Bibliographical sketches on the following Historians
J.N.Banerjea
H.C.Raychaudhuri
Haridas Mitra
Sudhakar Chattopadhyaya
P.C.Bagchi