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{{Infobox person
|name=Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta
|native_name=জ্যোতির্ময় গুহঠাকুরতা
|native_name_lang = bn
|image= File:Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta.jpg
|caption=
|birth_date={{birth date|1920|7|10|df=y}}
|birth_place=[[Mymensingh]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
|nationality=
|alma_mater=[[University of Dhaka]]<br/>[[King's College London]]
|death_date={{death date and age|1971|3|30|1920|7|10|df=y}}
|death_place=[[Dhaka]], Bangladesh
|occupation=University Academic
|father=Sri. Kumud Chandra Guhathakurta
|mother=Smt. Sumati Guhathakurta
}}
'''Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta''' (10 July 1920 – 30 March 1971) was a [[Bengali people|Bengali]] educator and humanist of the former [[East Pakistan]], now [[Bangladesh]]. He was one of the Bengali intellectuals killed by the [[Pakistan Army]] during the [[1971 Dhaka University massacre]] on the night of 25 March 1971.<ref name=AkhtarTribute/>

==Background and education==
Guhathakurta was born to Sri. Kumud Chandra Guhathakurta and Smt. Sumati on 10 July 1920 in [[Mymensingh]] town. Both of his parents were [[Bengali Hindu|Bengali]] [[Hindu]] school teachers. They were originally from [[Barisal]]. After matriculating in 1936 from [[Mymensingh Zilla School]], he joined [[Presidency University, Kolkata|Presidency College]] in [[Kolkata]] to study Intermediate Science. But he could not attend his final exams there because of [[typhoid]]. He came back to Mymensingh and took admission in [[Ananda Mohan College]] from where he passed Intermediate Arts in 1939. Guhathakurta then got himself admitted in the Department of English of [[Dhaka University]] and graduated with honors in 1942, and was first in the class. His excellent academic results earned him the Pope Memorial Gold Medal in Literature. He completed his masters the following year in the same institute.<ref name=Banglapedia>{{cite book |last=Haq |first=Kaiser |year=2012 |chapter=Guhathakurta, Jyotirmoy |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Guhathakurta,_Jyotirmoy |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref>

==Career==
Guhathakurta taught in a number of colleges from 1944 to 1949, such as AM College in Mymensingh, [[Gov't Gurudayal College|Gurudayal College]] in [[Kishoreganj]], and [[Jagannath College]] in Dhaka. In 1949 he joined the University of Dhaka as a lecturer in English. In 1963, he went to King's College, London University, on a British Council scholarship to do doctoral work on ''"Classical Myths in the Plays of Swinburne, Bridges, Sturges, Moore, and Eliot"''. In 1967, Guhathakurta returned to Dhaka University and was promoted to [[Reader (academic rank)|Reader]], a position he held until his death.<ref name=DailyStarIntel>{{cite news|title=Profiles of martyred intellectuals|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/suppliments/2006/december/december14th/intellectuals.htm|accessdate=7 November 2013|newspaper=The Daily Star|date=14 December 2022}}</ref>

==Assassination==
[[File:University Building No. 34, Secretariat Road, Dhaka 3.jpg|thumb|This monument to the intellectuals killed by the Pakistani soldiers in the area of the [[Shaheed Minar, Dhaka|Central Shahid Minar]] on the night of 25–26 March 1971, lists Guhathakurata's name.]]
After midnight 25 March 1971, Professor Jotirmoy Guhathakurta was shot in the dark by the Pakistani Army just outside the University building where he lived while at the same time another professor A.N.M. Maniruzzaman and three members of Maniruzzaman's family was shot in the landing of the stairwell of the same building. On the 27th of March, he was taken to the hospital which was almost deserted except for the wounded, with a handful of doctors to attend. After two days with hardly a regular medical attendant, he died due to severe loss of blood.<ref name=AkhtarTribute>{{cite news|last=Akhtar|first=Shameem|title=A tribute to our martyred intellectuals|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/a-tribute-to-our-martyred-intellectuals/|accessdate=31 December 2013|newspaper=The Daily Star|date=14 December 2022}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Guhathakurta family of Barisal]]

==Bibliography==
* 1973 ''Classical Myths in the plays of Swinburne, Bridges, Sturge Moore, and Eliot'', based on his doctoral thesis – Posthumous Publication, Dhaka University.
* 1977 "Bangla Academy students' English to Bengali dictionary" compiled by Nur Muhammad; reviewed by Zillur Rahman Siddiqui, Jotirmoy Guha Thakurtha, Serajul Islam Chowdhury, Bangla Academy.
* 2011 (reprint) Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta Smarak Grantha (Commemorative Volume of Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta) edited by Sardar Fazlul Karim and [[Rangalal Sen]], (contains a compilation of published articles in various journals and newspapers), Bangla Academy, Dhaka.

==References==
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