Achintya Biswas

Domaine de recherche

Asie du Sud

Pays de résidence

L'Inde

Titre

Professor of Bengali

Affiliation

Jadavpur University, Kolkatta, India

Adresse électronique

folkloristachintya@vsnl.net

Adresse

Jadavpur University
Kolkatta - 700032, INDIA

Téléphone/Télécopie

phones: 91/33-2462-9261 (residence)
91/98-3130-8617 (mobile)

Pays de spécialisation

India

Recherche

Interested in study and research in folklore of Bengal. Running
the Folkloristic Education and Research Institute (FERI). Organizing
seminars, conferences on folklore and oral tradition. Running the course
in undergraduate level as well as postgraduate level in the University.

Specialization: folklore, oral tradition,
old and medieval literature of Bengal

Publications

15 books have been published so far.
5 books have been editred mostly of Medieval Bengali texts.
10 research scholars have been awarded PhD from the University under my
supervision. 10 scholars are going on in their research. Field of the
research projects is folklore, oral tradition and medieval Bengali
literature.

Mots-clés

folklore ; oral tradition ; education ; ancient literature ; medieval literature ; Bengal ; ...