Jayanta Kumar Ray

Jayanta Kumar Ray (born 9 December 1934) is an Indian historian and National Research Professor. He was born in East Bengal, British India on 9 December 1934.

Awards and recognition Eminent Teacher Awards, University of Calcutta, 2014 National Research Professor, 2015

Selected publications Transfer of Power in Indonesia 1942-49, Bombay: Manaktalas, 1967. Security in the Missile Age, Bombay: Allied, 1967. Democracy and Nationalism on Trial: A Study of East Pakistan, Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1968. Portraits of Thai Politics, New Delhi: Orient Longman, 1972. Public Policy and Global Reality, New Delhi: Radiant, 1977. Administrators in a Mixed Polity, New Delhi: Macmillan, 1981. Organizing Villagers for Self-Reliance: A Study of Deedar in Bangladesh, Comilla: Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development, 1983. Organizing Villagers for Self-Reliance: A Study of Gonoshasthya Kendra in Bangladesh, Calcutta: Orient Longman, 1986. Centre-State Financial Relations in India (Co-author: Hiroshi Sato), Tokyo: Institute of Developing Economies, 1987. To Chase a Miracle: A Study of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, Dhaka: The University Press Ltd, 1987. India : In Search of Good Governance, Kolkata: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, 2001. India’s Foreign Relations, 1947-2007, New Delhi: Routledge, 2011.