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{{Infobox academic<br />
| birth_place = Singerkach, [[Bishwanath]], [[Sylhet District]]<br />
| known_for = Literary researcher and educationist<br />
| workplaces = * [[Jadavpur University]]<br />
* [[Calcutta University]]<br />
* [[Cotton University|Cotton College]]<br />
| death_place = [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]]<br />
| awards = [[D.Litt.]] from [[Rabindra Bharati University]]<br />
| notable_works = *Bangla Puthir Talika Shomonnoy<br />
*Gopal Thakurer Podaboli<br />
*Banglar Boishnob Bhabaponno Musolman Kobi<br />
*Bangla Obhidhan Gronther Porichoy<br />
| honorific_suffix = Tattva Ratnakara<br />
| education = [[Murari Chand College]] <small>(BA, 1929)</small><br>[[University of Calcutta]] <small>(MA, 1931)</small><br />
| father = Yaminikanta Bhattacharya<br />
| mother = Mokshada Devi<br />
| birth_date = 1908<br />
| death_date = {{Death year and age|1999|1908}}<br />
| name = Jatindramohan Bhattacharya<br />
| native_name = যতীন্দ্রমোহন ভট্টাচার্য<br />
| native_name_lang = bn<br />
}}<br />
'''Jatindramohan Bhattacharya''' ({{Langx|bn|যতীন্দ্রমোহন ভট্টাচার্য}}; 1908–1999) was an author and researcher of [[Bengali literature|Bengali]] and [[Assamese literature]]. He served as the professor of Bengali at the [[University of Calcutta]] for many years.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2011-06-23 |title=বিখ্যাত ব্যক্তিত্ব |url=http://www.dcsylhet.gov.bd/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=78&Itemid=88 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623052545/http://www.dcsylhet.gov.bd/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=78&Itemid=88 |archive-date=2011-06-23 |access-date=2022-04-24 }}</ref><ref name=sahitya>{{cite news|language=bn|url=https://thikana.us/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE-%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9F/|work=Thikana|title=বাংলা সাহিত্যে সিলেট|author=Husam, Shamshad|access-date=31 October 2022|archive-date=26 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221026220509/https://thikana.us/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE-%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9F/|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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== Early life and family ==<br />
Bhattacharya was born in 1908, to a Bengali Hindu family in the village of Singerkach in [[Bishwanath Upazila|Bishwanath]], [[Sylhet District]], [[Eastern Bengal and Assam]]. His father, Yaminikanta Bhattacharya, was a local ''mirashdar'',{{NoteTag|''Mirashdar'' is a term referring to a landowner who pays taxes directly to the government.<ref>{{cite book|last=Laskar|first=Nitish Ranjan|title=Mahishya Das of Cachar and their Social Background|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NjRuAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Mirashdar,+he+being+a+land+holder+in+his+own+right+and+paying+revenue+direct+to+the+Govt%22|series=Proceedings of North East India History Association|year=1985|publisher=North East India History Association|page=456}}</ref>}} and his mother, Mokshada Devi, died when he was only one years old.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Chowdhury|first=Rabbani|title=কালজয়ী গবেষক যতীন্দ্রমোহন ভট্টাচার্য|trans-title=Legendary researcher Jatindramohan Bhattacharya|language=bn|publisher=Utsho Prokashon|year=2008|isbn=9847005900887}}</ref><br />
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== Education ==<br />
After studying in the local village school, Bhattacharya moved to [[Meghalaya]] where he was educated at the Shillong Government High School. He passed his [[matriculation]] in 1925, and proceeded to study at the [[Murari Chand College]] of [[Sylhet]] from where he graduated in 1929. He later completed a [[Master of Arts]] in Bengali at the [[University of Calcutta]], graduating with a first class in 1931.<ref name=encyclo/><br />
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== Career ==<br />
From 1933 to 1941, Bhattacharya was a [[Ramtanu Lahiri]] research assistant. He became an assistant lecture of Bengali at the [[University of Calcutta]] in 1939, and remained in this post until 1941. He then returned to Sylhet, to work at [[Murari Chand College]]. In 1943, Bhattacharya joined the [[Cotton College, Gauhati|Cotton College]] in [[Guwahati]], [[Assam]] and was promoted to Head of Bengali in 1952. In 1964, he left that position and spent six years as Reader Head at the PG Bengali Department of [[Gauhati University]]. After the independence of [[Bangladesh]] in 1971, Bhattacharya moved to Calcutta and joined the [[Jadavpur University]] as a [[University Grants Commission (India)|UGC-nominated]] retired teacher in the Bengali Department.<ref name=encyclo/><br />
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Bhattacharya dedicated his life to literary research and amassed a vast collection of rare manuscripts, books and periodicals in Bengali. His collection is now known as the Jatindramohan Collection under the National Education Board of [[Jadavpur University]]. The collection has over 10,000 volumes of books, over 1200 journals, letters and documents, and over 8,000 manuscripts in Bengali (including [[Sylhet Nagri]]), Assamese, [[Sanskrit]], [[Hindi]], [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Arabic]] and [[Meitei language|Meitei]].<ref name=encyclo/><br />
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== Awards and works ==<br />
In 1937, he was awarded the Griffith Memorial Prize by the University of Calcutta for his thesis ''The History of Bengali Lexicon, from 1743 to 1867 A.D''. In 1945, he was awarded the Khujista Akhtar Banu Suhrawardy Gold Award for writing ‘Banglar Baishnab Bhabapanna Musalman Kabi’ (Bengal's Vaishnavite Muslim Poets).<ref>{{Cite book |last= Bhattacharya |first= Jatindramohan |title=বাঙলার বৈষ্ণব ভাবাপন্ন মুসলমান কবি |publisher=[[University of Calcutta]]|year=1945|edition=2}}</ref> The University of Calcutta awarded him with the Sarojini Basu Gold Medal in 1980 for his research and contributions to Bengali literature. In 1985, the [[Rabindra Bharati University]] awarded him with a [[Doctor of Letters]] degree.<ref name=encyclo>{{cite book|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: A-Devo|editor=Datta, Amaresh|publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]]|year=1987|chapter=Bhattacharya, Jatindramohan|pages=483–484}}</ref><br />
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Among his 26 published works (written and/or edited) are ‘Srihatter Bhattasangit’ (Bhatta Ballads of Sylhet); ‘Bangla Puthir Talika Samannay’ (Collection of Bengali [[Puthi]]s), ‘Gopal Thakurer Padabali’ (Gopal Thakur's Poetry), ‘Bangla Abhidhan Granther Parichay’ (Background of Bengali dictionary books) and many more.<ref name=":1"/><ref name=":0">{{Cite Banglapedia|article=Abhidhan|author=Sarker, Swarochish}}</ref> In 1978, he published ''Catalogus Catalogrum of Bengali manuscripts, Volume I'' which is a catalogue of 40,000 Bengali manuscripts, and later did the same for Assamese.{{fact|date=June 2023}}<br />
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== Death ==<br />
Bhattacharya died in [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]] in 1990.<ref name=":1"/><br />
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== See also ==<br />
*[[Padmanath Bhattacharya]], academic from Sylhet who also researched Bhatta ballads<br />
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[[Category:University of Calcutta alumni]]<br />
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[[Category:Academic staff of Jadavpur University]]<br />
[[Category:Educators from West Bengal]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian educational theorists]]<br />
[[Category:1908 births]]<br />
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