Songs of Youth

Pranab Kumar Bhattacharyya, at present the Jadunath Sarkar Professor of History and Secretary of the Akshaya Kumar Maitreya Museum Incorporating Raja Rajaram Museum Collection of North Bengal University, is a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland and royal Numismatic society of London. He was a student of Dr. D.C. Sircar. He was the chairperson of the Oriental section of the X International Numismatic congress, held in the University of London (1986). Beside a large number of papers, he has several works to his credit, including Aspect of Cultural History of Sikkim: Studies in Coinage.