Amlan Das Gupta is former Professor of English,

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. He is a noted

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of Classical and Biblical Studies, English Renaissance literature and an authority on Miltonic studies in India having numerous publications to his credit. He earned his B.A.(Hons.) from Presidency College of the

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and went on to pursue the M.A. at Jadavpur University. He received an M. Phil. from

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and did his Ph.D. from Jadavpur University. After teaching at

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and the

,''Teaching Staff: English'' in ''175th Year Commemoration Volume''. Scottish Church College, April 2008. page 573 he joined the faculty of Jadavpur University. He taught courses ranging from Classical and Arthurian Studies to Pre-Modern and Modern Literature. He learnt Latin and Greek from Raymond Pilette,

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father of

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, Calcutta. He gave lessons in these languages to interested students outside the university curriculum. He built a
archive
of North Indian classical music at th
School of Cultural Texts and Records
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. He also offered a course on the history of North Indian Classical Music.

Publications

Books

'' Jishu'' (Kolkata: Papyrus, 1997); ''My Life: Khansaheb

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'' (translated with critical introduction, with Urmila Bhirdikar) (Kolkata: Thema, 2000).; ''Mosquito and Other Stories: Ghana-da's Tall Tales'' (a translation of the Ghonada stories of

Premendra Mitra Premendra Mitra (4 September 1904 – 3 May 1988)Samsad Bengali Charitabhidhan Vol.II edited Anjali Bose, Published by Sagitta Samsad, Kolkata, Edition January,2019,Page-240 was an Indian poet, writer and film director in the Bengali language. ...

) (New Delhi: Penguin, 2004); editions of

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's ''

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'' (New Delhi: Macmillan, 2004) and

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'' (New Delhi: Longman, 2006). He is the editor of ''Renaissance Texts and Contexts'' (New Delhi: Macmillan, 2003) and ''Music and Modernity: North Indian Classical Music in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction'' (Kolkata: Thema, 2007).

Articles

Musical Contests: Reflections on Musical Values in Popular FilmIn Heidegger's HutAugustine on Memory: A Note on ''Confessions'' 10.8-37North Indian Classical Music in the 'Long' 1940sTragedy and the irrelevant: A Note on ''Hamlet''Tragedy and the Good LifeThe Miltonic Dissimile: Language and Style in ''Paradise Lost'', Book 4

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References

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