Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Indian archaeologist, museologist, art historian and professor of Sanskrit
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Place of Birth: Kolkata, West Bengal, India
About Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya
- Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya (February 1, 1919 – June 11, 2016) was an Indian archaeologist, museologist, art historian and professor of Sanskrit.
- He was the Director of the Indian Museum, Kolkata for a decade till his retirement.
- The Indian government awarded him Padma Shri in April 2017 posthumously. Bhattacharyya has to his credit 29 published books on various aspects of art, archaeology, epigraphy and numismatics and hundreds of research articles in journals across the world.
- In 2012, he was awarded the Acharya Hemchandra Suri Samman Puraskar, New Delhi for his outstanding contribution to Jaina iconography.
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