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'''Akshay Kumar Maitreya''' ({{lang-bn|অক্ষয় কুমার মৈত্রেয়}}) (1 March 1861&ndash;10 February 1930<ref name="bharatkosh">{{cite book|last=Majumdar|first=R.C.|title=Akshay Kumar Maitreya|publisher=[[Bangiya Sahitya Parishad]]|location=Kolkata|series=Bharatkosh|volume=I|url=http://www.abasar.net/bk_main.asp?what=B00014|language=bn|access-date=6 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725025708/http://www.abasar.net/bk_main.asp?what=B00014|archive-date=25 July 2011|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>) was a noted [[India]]n historian and social worker from [[Bengal]]. He was born in Nadia (now in [[West Bengal]]) to Mathuranath Maitreya. Much of his education was in [[Kolkata]] and [[Rajshahi]] (in [[Bangladesh]]). He passed his B.L. examination from Rajshahi College. He was a friend of [[Rabindranath Tagore]], but famously engaged with him in an argument about whether history based fiction should necessarily represent historical facts correctly. Maitreya, being a historian, called for historical correctitude, while Tagore declared that an artist has freedom to bend historical facts.<br />
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Maitreya was instrumental in creating the [[Varendra Research Museum]], [[Rajshahi]]. He was also credited for disproving the [[Black Hole of Calcutta]] theory used by the colonial British to discredit [[Siraj Ud Daulah]] in a seminar organized by the ''Calcutta Historical Society'' on 24 March 1916. His most significant work is ''Gaudalekhamala''. It consists the Sanskrit texts (along with their translations in Bengali) of a number of stone and copper-plate inscriptions issued by the [[Pala empire|Pala emperors]].<ref name="bharatkosh"/><br />
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==Works==<br />
Maitreya's major works include:<ref name="bharatkosh"/><br />
* ''Samarsimha'' (1883)<br />
* ''Sitaram Ray'' (1898)<br />
* ''Sirajuddaulah'' (1898)<br />
* ''Mir Qasim'' (1906)<br />
* ''Aitihasik Chitra'' (Snapshots of History)<br />
* ''Gaudalekhamala'' (The epigraphs of Gaud), Rajshahi (1912)<br />
* ''Phiringi Banik'' (European Traders) (1922)<br />
* " Sagarika"<br />
* " Rani Bhabani"<br />
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