Amiya Chakravarty
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Amiya Chandra Chakravarty(Bengali: অমিয় চক্রবর্তী) (1901-1986) was a famous literary critic from India and also a famous Bengali Poet.
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[edit] Early Life
He studied in Hare School, Calcutta and graduated from St. Columbus College in Hazaribagh. He joined Visva-Bharati University in 1921 as a student. Later, he became a teacher there.
[edit] Works
He was literary secretary to Rabindranath Tagore from 1924 to 1933. During this time, he was a close associate of the poet and shared his thoughts regarding contemporary political events. He was Rabindranath's travel companion during his tours to Europe and America in 1930 and to Iran and Iraq in 1932.[1]
He was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi also and attended World Pacifist Congress in Gandhi's Ashrama.[2] He walked with Gandhi in the Salt March of 1930.[3]
In 1937, he was awarded a D.Phil from Oxford University. During the years 1937 to 1940, he was a Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University. During this time, he taught in Selly Oak College in Birmingham as a fellow lecturer. Later he became Professor of English in Calcutta University in 1940.[1]
He was an advisor to Indian Delegation at United Nations.
In 1948, he went to USA to join Department of English in Howard University. He was a visiting fellow in English at Yale University. He was a fellow of Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton during 1950-51.[4] He was a Professor of Comparative Oriental Religions and Literature in the department of Missions and World Religions, Boston University in 1953.[5][6]
He wrote both poetry and prose and a number of articles in journals of India, England and USA. He was awarded the Unesco Prize for his book, Chalo Jai. In 1963, he received the Sahitya Akademi Award for Ghare Pherar Din. He authored the book Dynasts and the Post-war Age in Poetry, which is a critic work on Thomas Hardy's poetry.[2][7]
He edited a number of English translations of Tagore's works. Most well-known among these are: A Tagore Reader (1961) and The Housewarming and other Selected Writings (1965). He was a consulting editor for The Asian journal of Thomas Merton by Thomas Merton.[8]
[edit] Recognition
- Padma Bhushan from the Govt. of India (1970)
- The Deshikottama from Visva-Bharati
- Sahitya Akademi Award (1963)[9]
[edit] References
- ^ a b A document from peacecouncil.net
- ^ a b Amandus William Loos, Religious Faith and World Culture, p247, ISBN:0836919769
- ^ A speech by Richard Hughes
- ^ a document from IAS Princeton
- ^ Boston University Article on Theological Education
- ^ An introduction from a page in gospelink.com
- ^ List of Early Criticism on Thomas Hardy's works
- ^ ISBNDB page for Thomas Merton's books
- ^ List of Sahitya Akademi Award recepients (Bengali)
