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{{Short description|Indian historian}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Hemchandra Raychaudhuri
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| birth_date = 8 April 1892
| birth_place = Ponabalia, [[Barisal District]], [[Bengal Presidency]] (now [[Jhalokati District]], [[Bangladesh]] )
| death_date = 4 May 1957
| death_place = [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]], India
| occupation = Historian
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'''Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri''' ({{lang-bn|হেম চন্দ্র রায়চৌধুরী}}) (8 April 1892 – 4 May 1957<ref name="phai">Raychaudhuri, Hemchandra (1972). ''Political History of Ancient India: From the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty'', Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 7th edition, pp. iv-vi</ref>) was an [[India]]n historian, known for his studies on ancient India.

==Early life and education==
He came from a [[Baidya]] zamindar family. He was the son of Manoranjan Raychaudhuri, the ''Zamindar'' of Ponabalia in the present-day [[Jhalokati District]] in [[Bangladesh]], and his wife Tarangini Devi. He completed his schooling at [[Brojomohun College|Brajamohan Institution]] in [[Barisal]], which had been founded by [[Ashwini Kumar Dutta]]. He passed the University of Calcutta's entrance examination in 1907, standing first among all the students of East Bengal and Assam. He then joined [[Scottish Church College, Calcutta]] and after that [[Presidency College, Calcutta]], standing First in the First Class in his B.A. (Hons.) examination in 1911. For his outstanding achievements in this examination he was awarded the Eshan Scholarship. He again stood First in the First Class in his M.A. examination in 1913 and was awarded the Griffith Prize in 1919.

His nephews were [[Tapan Raychaudhuri|Tapan Kumar Raychaudhuri]] and [[Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri]].{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}

==Career==
He taught as a lecturer in [[Bangabasi College|Bangabasi College, Calcutta]] (1913–14). Soon after he joined the Bengal Education Service and was posted at [[Presidency College, Calcutta]] from (1914–16). In 1916 he was transferred to [[Chittagong College]]. Around this time [[Sir]] [[Ashutosh Mukherjee|Ashutosh Mookerjee]] offered him a Lecturership at the Department of Ancient History and Culture, [[University of Calcutta]] in 1917. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Ancient Indian history from Calcutta University in 1921. In 1928 he acted as Reader in the Department of History of the [[University of Dacca]]. In 1936 he succeeded [[D. R. Bhandarkar]] as the [[Carmichael Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture]] at Calcutta University from where he retired in 1952.<ref name="phai"/><ref name="encyclopediaofhistoriograph">[https://books.google.com/books?id=RZCv3d2XUeUC&pg=PA357&lpg=PA357&dq=Hem+Chandra+Raychaudhuri&source=bl&ots=cKxaR0Q585&sig=TeDaE9CuvQBhz0--bTamoUChqgY&hl=en&ei=UnBGSqf-HMiBkQXE8c2gDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1/ M.M. Rahman, ''Encyclopedia of Historiography'', (2006), p. 357]</ref>

==Works==
* ''Materials for the Study of the Early History of the Vaishnava Sect'', Calcutta: University of Calcutta (1920)
* ''Political History of Ancient India: From the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty'', Calcutta: University of Calcutta (1923)
* ''Studies in Indian Antiquities'', Calcutta: University of Calcutta (1932)
* ''Vikramaditya in History and Legend'', Vikrama-volume, Scindia Oriental Institute (1948)
* ''[[An Advanced History of India]]'' (Madras, 1946; last reprint in 1981) (authored with [[R.C. Majumdar]] and Kalikinkar Datta)

==References==
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==Further reading==
* Panda, Harihar (2007). ''Prof. H.C. Raychaudhuri: as a Historian'', New Delhi:Northern Book Centre, {{ISBN|81-7211-210-6}}

==External links==
* {{Internet archive|politicalhistory00raycuoft|Political History of Ancient India}}

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