Jayanta Kumar Ray (born 9 December 1934) is an Indian historian and National Research Professor. He was born in

East Bengal East Bengal (; ''Purbô Bangla/Purbôbongo'') was the eastern province of the Dominion of Pakistan, which covered the territory of modern-day Bangladesh. It consisted of the eastern portion of the Bengal region, and existed from 1947 until 195 ...

British India The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in South Asia. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one form or another ...

on 9 December 1934.

Awards and recognition

* Eminent Teacher Awards,

University of Calcutta The University of Calcutta, informally known as Calcutta University (), is a Public university, public State university (India), state university located in Kolkata, Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal, India. It has 151 affiliated undergraduate c ...

, 2014 * National Research Professor, 2015

Selected publications

*''Transfer of Power in Indonesia 1942-49'', Bombay: Manaktalas, 1967. *''Security in the Missile Age'', Bombay: Allied, 1967. *''Democracy and Nationalism on Trial: A Study of East Pakistan'', Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1968. *''Portraits of Thai Politics'', New Delhi: Orient Longman, 1972. *''Public Policy and Global Reality'', New Delhi: Radiant, 1977. *''Administrators in a Mixed Polity'', New Delhi: Macmillan, 1981. *''Organizing Villagers for Self-Reliance: A Study of Deedar in Bangladesh'', Comilla: Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development, 1983. *''Organizing Villagers for Self-Reliance: A Study of Gonoshasthya Kendra in Bangladesh'', Calcutta: Orient Longman, 1986. *''Centre-State Financial Relations in India'' (Co-author: Hiroshi Sato), Tokyo: Institute of Developing Economies, 1987. *''To Chase a Miracle: A Study of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh'', Dhaka: The University Press Ltd, 1987. *''India : In Search of Good Governance'', Kolkata: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, 2001. *''India’s Foreign Relations, 1947-2007'', New Delhi: Routledge, 2011.

References

1934 births Possibly living people 20th-century Indian historians Academic staff of the University of Calcutta {{India-historian-stub