Sarasi Kumar Saraswati

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Nationality Bangladeshi		Name Sarasi Saraswati Education University of Calcutta

Institutions Varendra Research Society University of Calcutta Banaras Hindu University Victoria Memorial Known for Art and architecture of early Bengal Early Sculptures of Bengal A Survey of Indian Sculpture History of Indian architecture History of Bengal architecture Died 1980, Rajshahi, Bangladesh Influenced Ramaprasad Chanda, Akshay Kumar Maitreya, Stella Kramrisch Fields History of architecture, History of art
Alma mater University of Calcutta

Sarasi Kumar Saraswati (1906–1980) was a Bangladeshi historian of art and architecture.

Early life and education

Saraswati was born in Rajshahi, British India. He received a MA in 1930 from the University of Calcutta in of Ancient Indian History and Culture.

Research Scholar, Varendra Research Society, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Lecturer and Reader, Department of Ancient Indian History and Culture, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India

First Professor and Head of the Department of Archaeology, University of Calcutta.

Professor and Head of the Department of Ancient Indian History and Culture, Banaras Hindu University, Vanarasi, India

Librarian of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta,

Curator, Victoria Memorial, Calcutta,

A survey of Indian sculpture (1975)

Architecture of Bengal (1976)

Indian art at the cross-roads(1973)

Glimpses of Mughal architecture in: A. Goswami (ed)(1953)

Tantrayāna art: an album (1977)

chapters on architecture to the following books..

History of Bengal, vol. I, (ed. RC Majumdar)

The History and Culture of the Indian People, (ed. RC Majumdar)

Comprehensive History of India, vol. II (ed. KA Nilakanta Shastri)

Comprehensive History of India, vol. III (ed. RC Majumdar) and

Jaina Art and Architecture, (ed. A Ghosh).

articles on art and architecture of early Bengal, in the Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1932-34

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