Partha Sarathi Gupta

Professor Partha Sarathi Gupta
Born	(1934-08-05)5 August 1934
Died	10 August 1999(1999-08-10) (aged 65) New Delhi
Nationality	Indian
Occupation(s)	Professor of British and European History, Delhi University
Title	Ex-President, Indian History Congress
Awards	Ishan Uday Smuts Fellow in Commonwealth History at Cambridge University (1980-1981) Fellow of the Royal Historical Society Editorial Advisory Board Member of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
Academic background
Education	BA , MA, M Phil, PhD
Alma mater	Ballygunge Government High School Presidency College, Calcutta (BA) Queen's College, Oxford (MA, PhD)
Thesis	(1956)
Doctoral advisor	Henry Pelling
Other advisors	Christopher Hill Keith Thomas
Academic work
Era	1914-1964
Discipline	Historian
Sub-discipline	Imperialism And The British Labour Movement, Commonwealth History, English Civil War , Documents For The Movement For Independence In India,
School or tradition	Liberalism
Notable works	Imperialism And The British Labour Movement, 1914-1964 Towards Freedom: Documents For The Movement For Independence In India, 1943-44

Partha Sarathi Gupta (5 August 1934 – 10 August 1999) was an Indian professor of British and European history at Delhi University and president of the Indian History Congress. He was firstborn son of Ashoka Gupta and Saibal Gupta, an Indian Civil Services officer in Bengal state of British India. His childhood memory of watching Mahatma Gandhi's walk through riot-torn Noakhali in 1946 where his mother joined in the walk had a long-lasting impact. He was awarded Eshan scholarship for the highest marks in West Bengal in Presidency College, Calcutta. Fellow students included Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner Amartya Sen and member of planning commission Sukhamoy Chakravarty in 1953.^[1]

Partha was a member of the Indian Council of Historical Research. He was Smuts Fellow in Commonwealth History at Cambridge University (1980-1981), and directeur d'études at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris in 1989.