Niranjan Prasad Chakravarti
Chakravarti, N.
| PersonType | Category:Editors |
|---|---|
| MainNamePhon | Niranjan Prasad Chakravarti |
| SortName | Chakravarti, Niranjan |
| bio | Niranjan Prasad Chakravarti OBE (1 July 1893 – 19 October 1956) was an Indian archaeologist who served as Chief epigraphist to the Government of India in 1934 to 1940 and as Director-general of the Archaeological Survey of India from 1948 to 1950.
Chakravarti was born on 1 July 1893 at Krishnanagar in the Nadia district of Bengal Presidency, India. After graduation, he served as lecturer of Sanskrit and Pali at the University of Calcutta. After working at Sorbonne in Paris and Berlin universities on a scholarship in 1921, Chakravarti went to the United Kingdom and obtained a doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 1926. |
| YearBirth | 1893 |
| YearDeath | 1956 |
| phduniversity | University of Cambridge |
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