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'''Amlan Das Gupta''' is former Professor of English, [[Jadavpur University]], [[Kolkata]].<ref>[http://www.jaduniv.edu.in/profile.php?uid=140 Amlan Das Gupta]. Jadavpur University.</ref> He is a noted [[scholarly method|scholar]] of Classical and Biblical Studies, English Renaissance literature and an authority on Miltonic studies in India having numerous publications to his credit.

He earned his B.A.(Hons.) from [[Presidency College, Kolkata|Presidency College]] of the [[University of Calcutta]] and went on to pursue the M.A. at Jadavpur University. He received an M. Phil. from [[Oxford University]] and did his Ph.D. from Jadavpur University. After teaching at [[Scottish Church College]] and the [[University of Calcutta]],<ref name=Teaching_Staff>''Teaching Staff: English'' in ''175th Year Commemoration Volume''. Scottish Church College, April 2008. page 573</ref> he joined the faculty of Jadavpur University.

He taught courses ranging from Classical and Arthurian Studies to Pre-Modern and Modern Literature. He learnt Latin and Greek from Raymond Pilette, [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] father of [[St. Xavier's College, Calcutta|St Xavier's College]], Calcutta. He gave lessons in these languages to interested students outside the university curriculum.

He built an [http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kolkata-India/Archive-of-North-Indian-Classical-JU/292780654066?v=wall&ref=ts archive] of [[North Indian classical music]] at the [http://www.jaduniv.edu.in/view_department.php?deptid=135 School of Cultural Texts and Records] at [[Jadavpur University]]. He also offered a course on the history of North Indian Classical Music.

==Publications==

===Books===

''[[Jesus|Jishu]]'' (Kolkata: Papyrus, 1997);

''My Life: Khansaheb [[Ustad Alladiya Khan|Alladiya Khan]]'' (translated with critical introduction, with Urmila Bhirdikar) (Kolkata: Thema, 2000).;<ref>[http://www.themabooks.com/culture1.html Thema : Culture Studies/ Performance/Media/Film 2] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009040613/http://www.themabooks.com/culture1.html |date=9 October 2007 }}</ref>

''Mosquito and Other Stories: Ghana-da's Tall Tales'' (a translation of the [[Ghonada]] stories of [[Premendra Mitra]]) (New Delhi: Penguin, 2004);<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/AuthorLounge/AuthorDetail.asp?tid%3D45 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-06-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927193247/http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/AuthorLounge/AuthorDetail.asp?tid=45 |archivedate=2007-09-27 |df= }}</ref>

editions of [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Measure for Measure]]'' (New Delhi: Macmillan, 2004)<ref>[http://www.orientlongman.com/display.asp?categoryID=21&isbn=978-81-250-2648-8 ::.. Orient Longman Pvt. Ltd. ..::] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928213645/http://www.orientlongman.com/display.asp?categoryID=21&isbn=978-81-250-2648-8 |date=28 September 2007 }}</ref>

and [[Aristotle]]'s ''[[Poetics]]'' (New Delhi: Longman, 2006).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.akhilbooks.com/frmsingleproductDet.aspx?id%3D14841 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-06-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930021652/http://www.akhilbooks.com/frmsingleproductDet.aspx?id=14841 |archivedate=2007-09-30 |df= }}</ref>

He is the editor of ''Renaissance Texts and Contexts'' (New Delhi: Macmillan, 2003)

and ''Music and Modernity: North Indian Classical Music in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction'' (Kolkata: Thema, 2007).

===Articles===

[https://web.archive.org/web/20080804000838/http://www.jmionline.org/jmi6_4.html Musical Contests: Reflections on Musical Values in Popular Film]

[http://humanitiesunderground.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/in-heideggers-hut-2/ In Heidegger's Hut]

[http://humanitiesunderground.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/augustine-on-memory-a-note-on-confessions-10-8-37-2/ Augustine on Memory: A Note on ''Confessions'' 10.8-37]

[http://humanitiesunderground.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/north-indian-classical-music-in-the-long-1940s/ North Indian Classical Music in the 'Long' 1940s]

[https://books.google.com/books?id=JCNY4DobdmYC&pg=PA261&dq=amlan+das+gupta&ei=ShplS776MYLGMsLd5OUN&cd=1#v=onepage&q=amlan%20das%20gupta&f=false Tragedy and the irrelevant: A Note on ''Hamlet'']

[https://books.google.com/books?id=8ONDUDHWBjUC&pg=PA101&dq=amlan+das+gupta&ei=kRhlS8DHA6LGNbjArJsJ&cd=3#v=onepage&q=amlan%20das%20gupta&f=false Tragedy and the Good Life]

[https://books.google.com/books?id=g87Rf-TciIMC&pg=PA113&dq=amlan+das+gupta&ei=kRhlS8DHA6LGNbjArJsJ&cd=8#v=onepage&q=amlan%20das%20gupta&f=false The Miltonic Dissimile: Language and Style in ''Paradise Lost'', Book 4]

==External links==
* [http://www.jaduniv.edu.in/upload_files/Curriculum_Vita/Curriculum_Vita_of_932.pdf CV]

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