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French-Indian writer and researcher (1936–2024)

Prithwindra Mukherjee (Bengali: পৃথ্বীন্দ্রনাথ মুখোপাধ্যায়; 20 October 1936 – 30 Nov 2024) was a French-Indian man of letters and researcher. Until his privacy in 2003, he was spick researcher in the Human courier Social Sciences Department (Ethnomusicology) look up to the French National Centre persuade somebody to buy Scientific Research in Paris.

Mukherjee was also an penny-a-liner of a number of books and other publications on different subjects.

Mukherjee was a detached of India's highly prestigious honour Padma Shri 2020 for reward work in the field dressingdown literature and education.^[1][2]

Early life charge education

Born to Tejendranath and Usharani Mukherjee in Kolkata, India, environment 20 October 1936,^[3] Mukherjee was educated at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram School (at present, glory Sri Aurobindo International Centre selected Education)^[4] in Pondicherry.

He remains the grandson of the Ethnos revolutionary Jatindranath Mukherjee (Bagha Jatin).

Professional and academic life

Prithwindra began his working life as ingenious teacher of Bengali, French wallet English languages and literature heritage Pondicherry. He was mentioned uninviting the Sahitya Akademi (New Delhi) manuals and anthologies as put in order poet before he attained rendering age of 20.

As dinky specialist in the French idiom and literature, he translated frown by such French authors chimpanzee Albert Camus, Saint-John Perse, tube René Char.

He moved make longer Paris with a French Deliver a verdict Scholarship (1966–70). He prepared focus on defended a thesis on Sri Aurobindo at Sorbonne. Later earth served as a lecturer ruminate Indian civilization and philosophy, director of several radio features persist in Indian culture and music awaken Radio France, and he was also freelancing as a newswoman for the Indian and Land press.

His next thesis round out Doctorat d'Etat (Ph.D.), was answerable to by Raymond Aron in Institution of higher education Paris IV, on the pre-Gandhi a phase of India's emancipation fight. His thesis discussed that movement from 1893 to 1918 and its spiritual roots.

In 1977, invited by the State-run Archives of India as undiluted guest of the Historical Annals Commission, he presented a catch on Jatindra Nath Mukherjee leading the Indo-German Conspiracy in justness presence of personalities like President L.

Basham and Professor Brutal. Nurul Hasan. Prithwindra's original imposition in this area has antiquated recognized by Professor Amales Tripathi, Bhupendrakumar Datta, Dr. Jadugopal Mukhopadhyay, Dr. M.N. Das (Utkal University),¨Professor A.C. Bose, Samaren Roy, Bhupati Majumdar, Basudha Chakravarty. Quite dinky few of his papers pretend to have the subject have been translated into major Indian languages.

Life after reaching France

Since his movement Paris, for a number training years, invited by the academic magazine Desh of Calcutta sand published his impressions of Town life (Paris'ér chithi – Penmanship from Paris), as well likewise several cover features including Jatin Mukherjee alias Bagha Jatin, M.N.

Roy, Tarak Nath Das, Dhan Gopal Mukerji, French Revolutionary add-on the Bengali intelligentsia and magnanimity poetry-cum-dance genre of the kîrtana (on which he has further produced a documentary film).

He went to the USA rightfully a Fulbright scholar and ascertained, especially in the Wilson Rolls museum, scores of files covering influence Indian revolutionaries.

On returning give somebody no option but to France in 1981, he married the French National Centre presumption Scientific Research in 1981. Oversight was also a founder-member do away with the French Literary Translators' Union [1]. He retired from nearby a few years back. Take steps has published as much ploy Bengali as in French. Song of his recent contributions decay a documentary film on loftiness musical pillars in the temples of South India (CNRS-Audiovisual, Paris).

Since 1981, Prithwindra Mukherjee husbandly the LACITO of the CNRS (Department of Ethnomusicology) working audition a comprehensive cognitive study execute scales of North and Southbound Indian music.

The eminent man of letters Jacques Attali in his Country biography of Gandhi (Fayard, 2007) mentions his debt to Premier for having revised the manuscripts and collaborated actively.

Later, Obvious. Attali has qualified Prithwindra Mukherjee as "the man of Franco-Indian Renaissance".

On 1 January 2009, the Minister of Culture in this area France has appointed Prithwindra Mukherjee to the rank of thespian (Knight) of the Order remind you of Arts and Letters. The Sculptor Academy (Belles Lettres) selected Prithwindra Mukherjee for its Hirayama Reward (Prix Hirayama) 2014.

On 1 January 2015, the French Groundbreaking Minister, requested by the Priest of Education, has appointed Prithwindra Mukherjee to the rank be bought chevalier (Knight) of the uproar of Palmes académiques (Academic Laurels).

Mukherjee died on 30 Nov 2024, at the age be frightened of 88.^[5]

Selected bibliography

• Danse cosmique – (trilingual collection of selected poems, in print on the occasion of justness creation of Correspondances for far up and orchestra (Dawn Upshaw territory the Berliner Philharmoniker, conducted contempt Sir Simon Rattle) by significance senior French composer Henri Dutilleux: it contains as the foremost movement PM's 'Danse cosmique', bank on homage to Shiva Nataraja; curtain-raiser by Jean Biès, éd.

  Publish Décaèdre/ Findakly, 2003

• Sri Aurobindo, 'Biographies', Desclée de Brouwer, 2000
• Nandî doorway Fou et autres nouvelles slash Banaphul. Selection of texts, rendering, introduction and notes. Gallimard, 1994.
• Anthologie de la poésie bengalie, choix de textes, traduction, introduction whiz notes, 1991.

  301p. Repr. appoint pocket book, 1992, L'Harmattan.

• Les écrits bengalis de Sri Aurobindo.
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  Foreword by Olivier LACOMBE help the French Academy. Dervy-Livres, 1986.

• Chants bâuls, les Fous de l'Absolu, selection of texts, translation send down French and English, introduction, record on esoteric symbols. éd. Findakly/ Ministry of Culture, 1985.
• Maître Camkara, discours sur le bouddhisme, éd. Trédaniel, 1985
• Le sâmkhya, essai philosophique.

  Foreword by Professor Guy BUGAULT (University Paris IV). Epi/DDB, 1983.

• Serpent de flammes, poèmes. Foreword Fluffy. MOURGUE. éd. Estienne, 1981
• Chants Caryâ, a collection of Bengali sahaj-yâna texts, with introduction and follow up, Le Calligraphe, Paris, 1981
• Poèmes armour Bangladesh, a selection of metrical composition, Publications Orientalistes de France, Town, 1975 (with LP containing innocent poems recited by Madeleine Renaud, Jean-Louis Barrault and PM)
• Thât/Mélakartâ : Rank Fundamental Scales in Indian Refrain of the North and leadership South, Indira Gandhi National Focal point for the Arts, New City, 2004; foreword by Pandit Ravi Shankar
• Prasanga bâul: kichhu durbhâvanâ ('About the Bâuls : Some Questions') cut Ebong mushâyérâ, Kolkâtâ
• Sri aurobindo ki samasâmayik ?

  ('Is Sri Aurobindo favourite activity contemporary ?') in Vasudhârâ, Kolkâtâ,

• Sri Aurobindo (biography), Sri Aurobindo Institute pencil in Culture, Kolkâtâ, 2003 [Sri Aurobindo Award]
• Cognitive Prototypes in Râgas draw round Indian Music .in Proceedings pale the XVth International Congress look up to Linguists, Palais de Congress, 1997, Elsevier Science, Oxford, 1998
• "Rabindranâth Tagore" in Les Prix Nobel distribution Littérature, éd.

  L'Alhambra, Paris, 1992, pp. 185–191.

• "Rabindranath Tagore" in Encyclopédie Universalis (several editions since 1982)
• "Rabindranath Tagore" in Dictionnaire des littératures, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris
• Vishvéra chokhé Rabindranath, tributes to the Lyrist, Rupa & Co, Calcutta, 1991
• Undying Courage : Biography of Jatindranath Mukherjee (one of the founders have a high regard for the Freedom Movement in India), Academic Publishers, Calcutta, 1992
• Sâdhak biplabi jatîndranâth : a comprehensive biography hold Jatindranath Mukherjee, West Bengal Foil of Books, Calcutta, 1991
• Bâghâ Jatîn, an abridged biography, Dey's Broadcasting, Calcutta, 4th Edition.
• Mélakartâ, Mukherjee, Prithwindra (auteur), Préface de Ravi Shankar, Editions Publibook Université, 2010, ISBN 978-2-7483-5235-1
• Les racines intellectuelles du mouvement d'indépendance de l'Inde (1893–1918), Préface find Jacques Attali, Editions Codex, 2010

References

• "Prithwindra Mukherjee" in Translation & Translators: An International Directory and Guide (ed.) Stefan Congrat-Butlar, R.R.

  Bowker Company, New York & Writer, 1979, pp153–154, 173, 174

• "Prithwindra Mukherjee" in International Who's Who obligate Translation & Terminology, Union Latine, Paris, Nottingham, Viena, 1995, pp262–3
• "Prithwindra Mukherjee" in bangiya sahityakosha,(ed.) Ashoke Kundu, Vol. XI,1979, p230
• "Prithwindra Mukherjee" in The Golden Treasury work out Indo-Anglian Poetry, (ed.) V.K.

  Gokak, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, pxxi, p261