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{{infobox person<br />
| name = Dineshchandra Sircar<br />
| birth_date = 1907<br />
| birth_place = [[Krishnanagar, Nadia|Krishnanagar]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]<ref name=bangla/><br />
| death_date = {{death year and age|1985|1907}}<ref name=bangla>{{cite web|url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Sircar,_Dineschandra|title=Sircar, Dineschandra|publisher=Banglapedia|access-date=25 September 2015|author=Ranabir Chakravarti}}</ref><br />
| death_place = [[Calcutta, India]]<br />
| occupation = Historian, epigraphist<br />
}}<br />
'''Dineshchandra Sircar''' (1907&ndash;1985), also known as '''D. C. Sircar''' or '''D. C. Sarkar''', was an [[Epigraphy|epigraphist]], historian, [[Numismatist (specialist)|numismatist]] and [[Folklore studies|folklorist]], known particularly in [[India]] and [[Bangladesh]] for his work deciphering inscriptions. He was the Chief Epigraphist of the [[Archaeological Survey of India]] (1949–1962), [[Carmichael Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture]] at the [[University of Calcutta]] (1962–1972) and the General President of the [[Indian History Congress]]. In 1972, Sircar was awarded the [[William Jones (philologist)|Sir William Jones]] Memorial Plaque.{{cn|date=January 2023}}<br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
Sircar was born in Krishnanagar in 1907, which is in present day West Bengal (India).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Thapar |first=Romila |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4WhuAAAAMAAJ |title=Reading History from Inscriptions |date=2002 |publisher=K.P. Bagchi & Company |isbn=978-81-7074-251-7 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Selected bibliography==<br />
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He authored more than forty books both in [[Bengali language|Bengali]] and [[English language|English]]. Some of his best known books include:<br />
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* ''Pala-purva Yuger Vamsanucarita'' ("Genealogy of Pre-Pala Age" in Bengali)<ref>পাল-পূর্ব যুগের বংশানুচরিত</ref><br />
* ''Pala-Sena Yuger Vamsanucarita'' ("Genealogy of Pala-Sena Age" in Bengali)<ref>[https://library.isical.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=121411 পাল-সেন যুগের বংশানুচরিত]</ref><br />
* ''Asoker Vani'' ("Sermons of [[Ashoka]]" in Bengali)<ref>[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.298821 অশোকের বাণী]</ref><br />
* ''Silalekha-Tamrasasanadir Prasanga'' ("On Stone and Copperplate Inscriptions" in Bengali)<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://weblibnet.blacal.org/vufind/Record/KohaSSC.24797 |title=শিলালেখ-তাম্রশাসনাদির প্রসঙ্গ}}</ref><br />
* ''Prachin Itihaser Kahini'' ("Story of Ancient History" in Bengali)<ref>প্রাচীন ইতিহাসের কাহিনী</ref><br />
* ''Sanskritik Itihaser Prasanga'' ("On Cultural History", two volumes in Bengali)<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://weblibnet.blacal.org/vufind/Record/KohaGDC.14378 |title=সাংস্কৃতিক ইতিহাসের প্রসঙ্গ |publisher=কলকাতা সাহিত্যলোক ১৩৮৯ ব., পুন. ১৪২৩ ব.}}</ref> <br />
* ''Select Inscriptions Bearing on Indian History and Civilisation'' (two volumes)<br />
* ''Indian Epigraphy'' (1965)<br />
* ''Indian Epigraphical Glossary''<br />
* ''Inscriptions of Asoka'',<br />
* ''Epigraphical Discoveries in East Pakistan''<br />
* ''Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India''<br />
* ''Some Epigraphical Records of the Mediaeval Period from Eastern India''<br />
* ''Studies in Indian Coins''<br />
* ''Journal of Ancient Indian History'' Ed.<br />
* ''The Early Pallavas'' (1935)<br />
* ''The Successors of the Satvahana in Lower Deccan'' (1939)<br />
* ''Successors of the Satvahana in the eastern Deccan'' (1935)<br />
* ''Social Life in Ancient India'' (1971)<br />
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He edited ''[[Epigraphia Indica]]'' volumes XXVIII to XXXVI, three of them jointly and the others independently.<ref>Prominent Epigraphists, Archaeological Survey of India, http://asi.nic.in/asi_epigraphical_sans_epigraphists.asp</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* {{cite book|first= Sachindra Kumar|last= Maity |author2=Thakur, Upendra |author3=Sircar, D.C.|title = Indological Studies: Prof. D.C. Sircar Commemoration Volume|publisher = Abhinav Publications| year = 1987| isbn = 81-7017-220-9}}<br />
* {{cite book |author=Gouriswar Bhattacharya |title=Deyadharma: Studies in Memory of Dr. D.C. Sircar (Sri Garib Dass Oriental Series, No 33) |publisher=Orient Book Distributors |year=1986 |isbn=81-7030-021-5 }}<br />
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==External links==<br />
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* {{cite web|url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Sircar,_Dineschandra|title=Sircar, Dineschandra|publisher=Banglapedia|author=Ranabir Chakravarti}}<br />
* [http://asi.nic.in/asi_epigraphical_sans_epigraphists.asp Prominent epigraphists] at [[Archaeological Survey of India]].<br />
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