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'''Bidhu Bhusan Das''', also spelled '''Bidhubhusan Das'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89267884.html |title=Das, Bidhu Bhusan, 1922- - LC Linked Data Service (Library of Congress) |publisher=Id.loc.gov |date= |access-date=2014-08-12}}</ref> (11 April 1922 – 2 June 1999), was a public intellectual, educator, professor, senior government official, and university president/Vice Chancellor from India.

== Background and education ==
Bidhubhusan Das was born in [[Puri]], Orissa, in 1922, the eldest child of Rai Bahadur Durga Charan Das, a senior government official in both British India and independent India,<ref>Thacker's Indian Directory (p 23), 1935.</ref> and the poet Nirmala Devi.<ref>Panchami Manoo Ukil, ''Nirmala Devi: The Mystic Odia Poet'', Odisha Story Bureau, 19 August 2016.</ref><ref>Sachidananda Mohanty (ed), "''Early Women's Writings in Orissa, 1898-1950,''SAGE Publications, 2005."</ref> Das received an A.M. from [[Columbia University]]{{Citation needed|date=October 2021}} and an M.Litt. from [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]], [[University of Oxford|Oxford University]].<ref>[[Bodleian Library]], [[University of Oxford]]. "A Study of L.H. Myers as a Philosophical Novelist." | Das, B., M.Litt., author || [[University of Oxford]], degree granting institution | ; | 1950 || Thesis (M.Litt.) - [[University of Oxford]], 1950 (Faculty of English Language and Literature; Christ Church.) || ix, 246 leaves; 27 cm. Graduated 19 October 1948. Degree conferred 15 July 1950, in absence.</ref> Earlier, he earned an M.A. in English from Patna University.{{Citation needed|date=October 2021}}

== Career ==
Das started teaching in [[Ravenshaw University]] in 1944. He became Sonepur Professor of English at Ravenshaw in 1950.<ref name="DNatBio">{{cite book|last1=Jena|first1=K.C.|url=https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.100392/2015.100392.Dictionary-Of-National-Biography-Supplement-Vol-1a-d1986_djvu.txt|title=Dictionary of National Biography (Supplement)|date=1986|publisher=Prof N.R. Ray, Institute of Historical Studies|location=Calcutta|accessdate=20 November 2018}}</ref> In 1959, he was appointed Advisor to King Mahendra of Nepal as part of the Indian Aid Mission under the Colombo Plan, and wrote the entire set of statutes that established Kathmandu's [[Tribhuvan University]]. He was Principal of [[Ranchi College]] (now Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee University) from 1963–68, and Principal of [[Ravenshaw University]] in 1968. After this, from 1968 until 1980, he was Director of Public Instruction and Vice Chancellor of Utkal University.<ref>{{cite web|date=2013|title=About Us|url=http://manik-biswanath-charitable-trust.webnode.in/about-us/|publisher=Manik Biswanath Memorial Charitable Trust|accessdate=2014-08-12}}</ref> Das taught English and American literature, comparative literature, linguistics and philosophy at Ravenshaw, Tribhuvan, Ranchi, Utkal and NEHU (Shillong) Universities. He was appointed advisor to chief minister Jamir of Nagaland and helped set up [[Nagaland University]], a [[Central University, India|central university]], in 1989.<ref>{{cite web|title=Chancellors/Vice-Chancellors|url=http://management.ind.in/forum/attachments/f2/2519d1348461594-utkal-university-phd-utkal-university-information-bulletin.pdf|work=Information Bulletin 2013-2013|publisher=Utkal University|page=3|accessdate=2018-11-20}}</ref>

The [[Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar|Institute of Physics in Bhubaneswar]] was founded by Das.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Top Physics Research Institutes of India » Scienceteen|url=https://www.scienceteen.com/top-physics-research-institute-of-indiaunofficial/}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=October 2021|reason=citation links to the Institute's website, where the "overview" doesn't mention Das at all [https://www.iopb.res.in/overview]}} It is now a part of India's Department of Atomic Energy.

== Family ==
Das and his wife, [[Prabhat Nalini Das]], had three children, including [[Oopali Operajita]].<ref>https://www.voiceamerica.com/guest/17097/ashutosh-sheshabalaya</ref> Das's maternal aunt was the leader, feminist, writer and social activist [[Sarala Devi]].<ref>http://magazines.odisha.gov.in/Orissareview/2014/August/engpdf/43-45.pdf.</ref> Das's maternal uncle, [[Nityanand Kanungo]], was a prominent Indian politician from the state of Odisha.<ref>http://www.rajbhavan.gujarat.gov.in/honorable-governors/past-governor-details.aspx?PastGovernerId=2#.</ref>
== Publications ==
*{{cite journal |title=Some Criteria of Acceptability in Translation |journal=Journal of Literary Studies |volume=13 |issue=2 |year=1989}}
*{{cite book |title=Literary Criticism - A Reading |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1985}}
*{{cite book |title=Amrutara Santana - The Dynasty of The Immortals by Gopinath Mohanty, translated by Bidhubhusan Das, Prabhat Nalini Das and Oopali Operajita |publisher=Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi |year=2015}} {{ISBN|978-81-260-4746-8}}

== References ==
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== Further reading ==
*{{cite book |title=Human Resource Management In Public Service |first=Santrupt |last=Misra |year=1992 |publisher=Mittal Publications |isbn=978-8-170-99408-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=57sVJe2bsasC&pg=PA64 |page=64}}

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