Kalidas Nag

Kalidas Nag (; 16 January 1892 – 9 November 1966) was an Indian historian, writer and parliamentarian. He was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 1952 and served till 1954.

Early years Kalidas Nag was born to Babu Matilal Nag in Calcutta. He married Shrimati Santa Devi, daughter of Ramananda Chatterjee. Together they had three daughters. A prolific author, he taught history at the Scottish Church College and University of Calcutta, and was nominated as an Officer d’ Academic by the Government of France. He served as the principal of Mahinda College in Galle, Ceylon from 1919 to 1920.

Following studies in Paris, Nag co-founded the Calcutta-based Greater India Society and became one of its main driving forces in the late 1920s and 1930s. In the 1920s he was a supporter of the French contribution to Tagore's university project at Santiniketan (north of Calcutta). He later edited several books on Indian culture. In 1930, Nag was a visiting professor at the Carnegie Institute in New York. After travels across Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and Hawaii, Nag developed an interest in the transoceanic connections that linked Polynesia and Vedic India, and he became a pioneer in Indo-Pacific studies

International exchanges Nag had major correspondence and intellectual relationships with two formidable European intellectuals, Romain Rolland and Hermann Hesse. Nag had famously narrated the story of the life of the Buddha to Hesse at a conference, which became the basis for Hesse's novel Siddhartha.