Sarat Kumar Ray

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Sarat Kumar Ray (1876–1946) was a member of the royal family of Dighapatia. A noted scholar, he was the son of the Raja (King) Pramathanath Ray and lived in the Maharaja's Palace. Along with historian Ramaprasad Chanda, he co-founded the Varendra Research Museum,[1][2][3][4][5] which Lord Dundas the Governor of Bengal, inaugurated in November 1919. He was well traveled, and visited England in 1900. He was a friend of Rabindranath Tagore.

Early life[]

Ray was born in 1876 in Dighapatia Raj family in Natore District, Bengal Presidency, British Raj. His father was Pramathanath Ray, the Zamindar of Dighapatia.[3] He studied at Rajshahi Collegiate School and Ripon College (renamed Surendranath College).[3] He earned a B.A. from Presidency College and a Masters in Physics from the University of Calcutta.[3] He joined the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad after being introduced to it by his teacher Ramendra Sundar Tribedi. Through the Parishad he became aquinted with Dwijendranath Tagore and Rabindranath Tagore.[3]

Career[]

Ray published his book, Sivaji O Guru Gobinda Singha, in 1908 for which an introduction was written by Rabindranath Tagore.[6]

Ray, along with Ramaprasad Chanda and Akshay Kumar Maitreya, worked to discover and preserve the archeological sites in the Varendra region of Bengal.[3][7] They also worked with R. D. Banerji to explore different sites. On 27 September 1910 they founded the Varendra Research Society.[3] Ray was the President of the society.[8] They needed a museum to preserve the antiques they discovered. Ray donated 63 thousand rupee and his brother donated the land for the museum.[3] The museum was inaugurated by Lord Dundas the Governor of Bengal, inaugurated in November 1919.[3]

Ray backed Ramaprasad Chanda in his anthropometric research work circa 1910.[9]

Ray was a management member of , Indian Music Society, , Rajshahi Public Library, and The Asiatic Society.[3] He was elected to the Bengal Legislative Council in 1930.[3]

Death[]

Ray died on 12 April 1946.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ University of Rajshahi. "Varendra Research Museum". Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  2. ^ "Varendra Research Museum". Banglapedia. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Ray, Saratkumar". Banglapedia. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  4. ^ "Varendra Research Museum nurtures country's heritage". The Independent. Dhaka. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  5. ^ Sanjukta Datta (2009). "Artefacts and Antiquities in Bengal: Some Perspectives Within an Emerging Non-official Sphere". In Upinder Singh; Nayanjot Lahiri (eds.). Ancient India: New Research. Workshop on Ancient Indian History, held at New Delhi during 27-28 August 2005. Oxford University Press. pp. 11–38. ISBN 978-0-19-806028-4.
  6. ^ Tuteja, K. L.; Chakraborty, Kaustav (2017-03-15). Tagore and Nationalism. Springer. p. 259. ISBN 978-81-322-3696-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  7. ^ Lahiri, Nayanjot (2006). Finding Forgotten Cities: How the Indus Civilization was Discovered. Permanent Black. p. 186. ISBN 978-81-7824-159-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  8. ^ Studies in Modern Bengal. Institute of Bangladesh Studies, University of Rajshahi. 1981. p. 246.
  9. ^ Mukharji, Projit Bihari (18 April 2017). "The Bengali Pharaoh: Upper-Caste Aryanism, Pan-Egyptianism, and the Contested History of Biometric Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Bengal". Comparative Studies in Society and History. Cambridge University Press. 59 (2): 446–476. doi:10.1017/S001041751700010X. ISSN 0010-4175.


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