R. D. Banerji: Difference between revisions

In 1931, in the introduction of ''Mohenjo-daro and the Indus Civilization'', London: Arthur Probsthain, 1931, Sir John Marshall wrote, "Three other scholars whose names I cannot pass over in silence, are the late Mr. R. D. Banerji, to whom belongs the credit of having discovered, if not Mohenjo-daro itself, at any rate its high antiquity, and his immediate successors in the task of excavation, Messrs. [[Madho Sarup Vats|M.S. Vats]] and [[Kashinath Narayan Dikshit|K.N. Dikshit]]. ... no one probably except myself can fully appreciate the difficulties and hardships which they had to face in the three first seasons at Mohenjo-daro."

 

Bandyopadhyay was born on 12 April 1885<ref name=e/><ref name=g>{{cite web|url=https://www.lindahall.org/r-d-banerji/|title=Scientist of the Day - R. D. Banerji|date=12 April 2017|access-date=20 Oct 2020|archive-date=20 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020133957/https://www.lindahall.org/r-d-banerji/|url-status=live}}</ref> in [[Baharampur|Berhampore]] of [[Murshidabad District]], in present-day [[Indian States|Indian state]] of [[West Bengal]], to Matilal and Kalimati.<ref name=e>{{cite news|url=https://www.anandabazar.com/editorial/rakhaldas-created-history-by-his-own-1.1091882|title=রাখালদাস নিজেই গড়ে ফেললেন ইতিহাস|language=Bengali|publisher=Anandabazar Patrika|date=7 Jan 2020|access-date=20 Oct 2020|archive-date=20 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020155104/https://www.anandabazar.com/editorial/rakhaldas-created-history-by-his-own-1.1091882|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=f>{{cite book|last1=Sengupta|first1=Subodhchandra|last2=Bose|first2=Anjali|title=Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan(Biographical dictionary)|language=Bengali|publisher=Sahitya Samsad|year=1976|place=Calcutta|page=455}}</ref> He passed his entrance examination from the [[Krishnath College School]] in Berhampore in 1900. He lived in [[Bangaon]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Five New Heritage Buildings for West Bengal|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/outlooktraveller/travelnews/story/70419/west-bengal-to-enlist-five-heritage-precincts|access-date=2021-11-18|website=www.outlookindia.com/outlooktraveller/|language=en|archive-date=26 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726081248/https://www.outlookindia.com/outlooktraveller/travelnews/story/70419/west-bengal-to-enlist-five-heritage-precincts|url-status=live}}</ref>

 

*''Bas Reliefs of Badami'' (1928)

 

*''History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period'' (1930 and 1931) - 2 volumes

*''The Haihayas of Tripuri and their Monuments'' (1931)

*''Asim'' (1924)

 

*''Anukram'' (1931)

 

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