Jatindramohan Bhattacharya

Jatindramohan Bhattacharya (; 1908–1999) was an author and researcher of Bengali and Assamese literature. He served as the professor of Bengali at the University of Calcutta for many years.

Early life and family Bhattacharya was born in 1908, to a Bengali Hindu family in the village of Singerkach in Bishwanath, Sylhet District, Eastern Bengal and Assam. His father, Yaminikanta Bhattacharya, was a local mirashdar, and his mother, Mokshada Devi, died when he was only one years old.

Education After studying in the local village school, Bhattacharya moved to Meghalaya where he was educated at the Shillong Government High School. He passed his matriculation in 1925, and proceeded to study at the Murari Chand College of Sylhet from where he graduated in 1929. He later completed a Master of Arts in Bengali at the University of Calcutta, graduating with a first class in 1931. The University of Calcutta awarded him with the Sarojini Basu Gold Medal in 1980 for his research and contributions to Bengali literature. In 1985, the Rabindra Bharati University awarded him with a Doctor of Letters degree.

Among his 26 published works (written and/or edited) are ‘Srihatter Bhattasangit’ (Bhatta Ballads of Sylhet); ‘Bangla Puthir Talika Samannay’ (Collection of Bengali Puthis), ‘Gopal Thakurer Padabali’ (Gopal Thakur's Poetry), ‘Bangla Abhidhan Granther Parichay’ (Background of Bengali dictionary books) and many more. In 1978, he published Catalogus Catalogrum of Bengali manuscripts, Volume I which is a catalogue of 40,000 Bengali manuscripts, and later did the same for Assamese.

Death Bhattacharya died in Calcutta, West Bengal in 1990.