Stalwarts of Bengali Folklore’ is a unique book of its kind in a sense that it coalesces the entire works and activities done by the Bengali folklorists in a single volume. The reader can find the contributions that our predecessors in the field of folklore have made. This book contains the life sketches of 25 folklorists, some of whom went long back into the darkness of oblivion. In this book these folklorists have been established on the basis of the merit of their work in folklore. The volume is mention worthy, again for its detailing of the pioneering works done by the folklorists of Bengal in their life time. This must be an essential compendium to everyone who does not even want to miss the Bits of history of the intellectual minds of Bengal.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Barun Kumar Chakraborty
Dr. Barun Kumar Chakravarti is a PH.D. from Calcutta University. he did his post graduate Diploma in Nutritional science from all India Institute of Hygiene and Public health. Later he did postgraduate Diploma in Tourism and Hotel Management from university of Rajasthan and Diploma in Teacher’s Training from Bombay. Dr. Chakravarti was a recipient of a visitorship offered by the British Council and he extensively travelled and visited the various catering schools and research organization in U.K. He also visited France, Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg and West Germany to study the catering pattern of those countries in 1979. Dr. Chalravarti was also deputed by the Govt. of Bihar to visit U.S.A., where he visited number of catering schools, catering departments of American universities including that of the Cornell University and Culinary Institute of America. He is the founder Principal of Food Craft Institute Patna which has been recently upgraded as Institute of Hotel management, catering technology and Applied Nutrition under national Council. Dr. Chakravarti has been engaged and associated in various social, academic and philanthrophic works in the state of Bihar and actively engaged in the promotion of Tourism in the State of Bihar. He is one of the Director of the Board of Directors of Bihar State Tourism development Corporation and is also a prolific writer and published several books and numerous research papers in Indian and Foreign Journals.
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