Sarasi Kumar Saraswati

Sarasi Kumar Saraswati (1906–1980) was an Indian historian of art and architecture.

Early life and education

Saraswati was born in Rajshahi, British India. He received a MA in 1930 from the University of Calcutta in Ancient Indian History and Culture.

Positions Research Scholar, Varendra Research Society, Rajshahi, Bangladesh Lecturer and Reader, Department of Ancient Indian History and Culture, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India First Professor and Head of the Department of Archaeology, University of Calcutta. Professor and Head of the Department of Ancient Indian History and Culture, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India Librarian of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta Curator, Victoria Memorial, Calcutta

Publications

Books A survey of Indian sculpture (1975) Architecture of Bengal (1976) Indian art at the cross-roads (1973) Glimpses of Mughal architecture in: A. Goswami (ed) (1953) Pal Juger Chitrakala Tantrayāna art: an album (1977)

Book chapters He authored the chapters on architecture in the following books. History of Bengal, vol. I, (ed. by RC Majumdar) The History and Culture of the Indian People, (ed. RC Majumdar) Comprehensive History of India, vol. II (ed. KA Nilakanta Shastri) Comprehensive History of India, vol. III (ed. RC Majumdar) Jaina Art and Architecture, (ed. A Ghosh).

Articles Articles on the art and architecture of early Bengal, in the Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1932-34