Ajit Kumar Guha

Ajit Kumar Guha
অজিত কুমার গুহ
Born(1914-04-15)15 April 1914
Comilla District, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died12 November 1969(1969-11-12) (aged 55)
Comilla, East Pakistan, Pakistan
Alma materComilla Victoria College
Calcutta University
OccupationEducationist

Ajit Kumar Guha (15 April 1914 – 12 November 1969) was a Bengali educationist.[1] He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2013 posthumously by the Government of Bangladesh.[2]

Education and career

Guha passed the matriculation from Ishwar Pathshala and intermediate from Comilla Victoria College in 1930 and 1932 respectively. He earned his bachelor's from Comilla Victoria College in 1934 and master's from Calcutta University in 1939. He studied at Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan from 1940 to 1942.[1]

Guha started teaching at the Priyanath High School from 1942 until 1948. He then joined the Jagannath College as a professor in the Department of Bangla. He served as a part-time professor in the Department of Bangla at the University of Dhaka.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Islam, Sirajul (2012). "Guha, Ajit Kumar". In Islam, Sirajul; Chakraborty, Gopika Ranjan (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
  2. ^ একুশে পদকপ্রাপ্ত সুধীবৃন্দ (in Bengali). Government of Bangladesh. Retrieved 24 July 2016.