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The '''Carmichael Chair of Ancient Indian History and Culture''' is a [[history]] professorship in the [[University of Calcutta]], India; its holder is known as '''Carmichael Professor'''. The post was created by [[Ashutosh Mukherjee]] in 1912 after [[Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, 1st Baron Carmichael|Baron Carmichael]] the then [[List of Governors of Bengal|Governor of Bengal]]. The German Indologist [[George Thibaut]] was the first to be appointed a Carmichael Professor.<ref name="Panda2007">{{cite book|author=Harihar Panda|title=Prof. H. C. Raychaudhuri: As a Historian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f1XMtc2Q97IC&pg=PA3|year=2007|publisher=Northern Book Centre|isbn=978-81-7211-210-3|page=3}}</ref>

==List of Carmichael Professors==
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!Name
!Term
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|1912<ref name="Panda2007" /> [[George Thibaut]]
|1912-1914
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|1917<ref name="Panda2007" /> [[D. R. Bhandarkar]]
|1917-1936
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|1936<ref name="Panda2007" /> [[Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri]]
|1936-1952
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|1952<ref name="Panda2007" />
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|-
|1962 [[Dineshchandra Sircar]]
|1962-1972
|-
|1975 [[B. N. Mukherjee]]
|1975-1998
|}

==References==
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[[Category:1912 establishments in India]]
[[Category:Professorships in history]]
[[Category:University of Calcutta faculty]]