D P Chattopadhyaya

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Name D. Chattopadhyaya Education University of Calcutta		Died May 8, 1993, Kolkata Role Philosopher Influenced Mircea Eliade

Books Lokayata: A Study in Ancient Indian Materialism Similar People Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Mircea Eliade, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph S, Rene Guenon
Schools of thought Marxism, Materialism

Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya (b. November 5, 1933) is the Founder/Chairman of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi. Currently, he is the Chairman of the Centre for Studies in Civilizations, and General Editor of the Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture.

In 2009 he was awarded with Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award.

Books

1967 Individuals and Societies: A Methodological Inquiry

1976 History, Individuals and World

1980 Rupa, Rasa O Sundara (in Bengali)

1988 Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx

1990 Anthropology and Historiography of Science

1991 Induction, Probability and Skepticism

1997 Sociology, Ideology and Utopia

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