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|birth_place = [[Chekonidhara]], [[Jorhat district|Jorhat]], Assam
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'''Ananda Chandra Dutta''' ({{lang-as|আনন্দ চন্দ্ৰ দত্ত}}) (8 February 1923 – 16 January 2016) was an Indian [[botanist]]<ref name=senti>[http://www.sentinelassam.com/state1/story.php?sec=2&subsec=2&id=110454&dtP=2012-03-16&ppr=1 Ananda Chandra Dutta felicitated at Jorhat] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924101144/http://www.sentinelassam.com/state1/story.php?sec=2&subsec=2&id=110454&dtP=2012-03-16&ppr=1 |date=24 September 2015 }} The Sentinel, 15 March 2012; Retrieved 18 March 2012</ref> of [[Assam]]. He was born at [[Chekonidhara]] village of [[Jorhat]]. He started his career as a teacher in Mariani Middle English High School in 1944–45 and then joined the [[Tocklai Tea Research Institute]] in 1947. Dutta played a major role in the establishment of a tea museum at [[Jorhat]] in 1977.<ref name=tribune/> He has also prepared a list of 10,000 trees for the Tocklai herbarium.<ref name=tribune/> He was awarded ''Degree of Doctor of Science'' by [[Dibrugarh University]].<ref name=senti/> He died on 16 January 2016 at his own residence in Jorhat.<ref name="sentinel">{{cite web|url=http://www.sentinelassam.com/state1/story.php?sec=2&subsec=2&id=254339&dtP=2016-01-18&ppr=1 |title=Demise of acclaimed botanist Ananda Chandra Dutta mourned |publisher=The Sentinel |date=17 January 2016 |accessdate=22 January 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127144400/http://www.sentinelassam.com/state1/story.php?sec=2&subsec=2&id=254339&dtP=2016-01-18&ppr=1 |archivedate=27 January 2016 }}</ref>

== Life and work ==
# Started his career in 1944–45 as a teacher at Mariani ME School .
# On 8 February 1947 he joined at [[Tocklai Experimental Station]] as Junior Scientific Assistant and retired on 31 March 1983.
# Appointed in [[Assam Agricultural University]] as Audio Visual Aid Assistant on 1 April 1983 & continued till Dec 1986.
# Appointed as Photographer at Titabor Sericulture farm for one year (1987–88).
# Established a full-fledged Tea Museum at Tocklai Experimental station.
# Reappointed at Tocklai Experimental Station for one year (1990–91) to prepare the Herbarium Index.
# Appointed as Manager of Gymkhana Club, Jorhat from Aug 1991 to April 1994.

==Expertise==
# Resource person as Plant Identifier.
# Tea taxonomy & related works.
# Tea Morphology, anatomy, cytology etc.

==Published books==
# Some Common Weeds of the T.E. in NE India.
# Some Shade Trees, Green crop & Cover Crop Plants in the T.E. of N.E. India.
# Photography (1980) : This is the first book about photography published in [[Assamese language]].
# Dictionary of Economic and Medical Plants (1985)
# Bonoushdhir Goon Aaru Rug Arugyo (2003) (in Assamese)
# Asomor Gos Gosoni (1st Part) (in Assamese)
# Udbhid Upadan (2004)(1st Part) (in Assamese)

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120420193044/http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/Chunk-HT-UI-IndiaAwakened-TopStories/Sons-of-the-soil/Article1-835615.aspx News item published in Hindustantimes]

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>Tony1 at 00:50, 2 January 2021