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'''Dhritikanta Lahiri Choudhury''' (10 September 1931 – 1 March 2019) was an [[Bengalis|Indian Bengali]] author and expert on [[Indian elephant]]s.

==Biography==
Lahiri Choudhury was born to Dhirendrakanta and Renuka Debi in 1931 in village of Kalipur in the [[Mymensingh District|Mymensingh district]]. After the [[Partition of Bengal (1947)|partition of Bengal]] his family shifted to [[Kolkata]]. He passed M.A in [[English literature]] from [[Presidency University, Kolkata|Presidency College]] and completed Ph. D from the [[University of Leeds]]. He served as a professor of [[Rabindra Bharati University]]. Lahiri Choudhury travelled over seventy years in the forests of [[Assam]], [[Barak Valley]], [[West Bengal]], [[Meghalaya]], [[Arunachal Pradesh]] and [[Odisha|Orissa]] as well as [[Uttarakhand|Uttaranchal]], [[Bandipur National Park|Bandipur]] and [[Periyar National Park|Periyar]]. He gathered huge experiences with [[Elephant|elephants]] and surveyed the status and distribution of elephants, studied man-elephant conflicts and analysed the problems of elephants in [[India]]. His books ''The'' ''Great Indian Elephant Book'' and ''A Trunk Full of Tales: Seventy Years with the Indian Elephant'' are considered as guidebooks on managing elephants.<ref name=":0" /> <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.waterstones.com/author/dhriti-kanta-lahiri-choudhury/1122388|title=Dhriti Kanta Lahiri Choudhury|access-date=January 15, 2019}}</ref> Lahiri Choudhury wrote two [[Bengali language|Bengali]] books ''Hatir Boi'' and ''Jiboner Indradhanu''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QkcrDwAAQBAJ&q=Dhritikanta+Lahiri+Choudhury&pg=PT394|title=Calcutta: The Stormy Decades|last=Tanika Sarkar, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay|date=14 July 2017|isbn=9781351581714|access-date=January 15, 2019}}</ref> He also researched on Architecture of Calcutta.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Lahiri Choudhury, Dhriti Kanta|last=Trends in Calcutta Architecture, in Calcutta, the Living City|first=Vol I|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1995|isbn=0-19-563696-1|location=Kolkata}}</ref> In 1977 he became a member of the [[International Union for Conservation of Nature]] (IUCN) specialist group on elephants and of the advisory committee of [[Project Elephant]] under the [[Government of India]] in 2004.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.asesg.org/gajah35.htm|title=Gajah: Journal of the IUCN/SSC Asian Elephant Specialist Group|access-date=January 15, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/rwEr9yyBzvWHcaw1zuhhLM/The-elephant-warriors.html|title=The elephant warriors|access-date=January 15, 2019}}</ref> Lahiri Choudhry received [[Ananda Puraskar|Ananda Purashakar]] in 2007 for ''Hatir Boi''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15425854.Dhritikanta_Lahiri_Chowdhury|title=Dhritikanta Lahiri Chowdhury|access-date=January 15, 2019}}</ref>

Lahiri Chouhudry died on March 1, 2019 at the age of 87.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/elephant-expert-dhriti-kanta-dies-at-87/articleshow/68226150.cms |title=Elephant expert Dhriti Kanta dies at 87 |website=The Times of India |access-date=2019-03-02}}</ref>

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[[Category:Recipients of the Ananda Purashkar]]
[[Category:People from Mymensingh District]]

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