| Name
/ Title |
Sir JADUNATH
SARKAR |
| Date of
Birth |
December 10, 1870 |
| Date of
Death |
May 19, 1958 |
| Identity |
Indian Bengali Aristocrat and Historian |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- 1901: His first book, India
of Aurangzib, was published in this year.
- 1913: He completed and
published his single-volume works, viz. Chaitanya: His
Pilgrimages and Teachings.
- 1919: He completed and
published his single-volume works, viz. Shivaji and His
Times.
- 1924: His five-volume
History of Aurangzib took 25 years to complete and was
published in this year.
- 1926 to 1928: He served as
vice chancellor of the University of Calcutta.
- 1929: He was knighted.
- 1929 to 1932: He served on
the Bengal legislative council.
- 1950: He devoted another 25
years to his four-volume Fall of the Mughal Empire,
completed in this year.
|
| General |
- He was born in Karachmāria, Bengal [now in Bangladesh],
and died in Calcutta (no Kolkata), India.
- He was the foremost Indian historian of the Mughal
dynasty (1526–1857).
- Sarkar chose Aurangzeb, the last major Mughal emperor,
as the object of his life’s work.
- All his works demonstrate his vast knowledge of
Persian-language sources and are skillfully written in
English.
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