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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Maheswar Neog<br />
| image = Maheswar-Neog.jpg<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1915|09|07|df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Sibsagar]], [[Assam]], [[India]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1995|09|13|1915|09|07|df=yes}}<br />
| occupation = Professor and Writer<br />
| parents = Manik Chandra Neog and Chandra Probha Neog<br />
}}<br />
Professor '''Maheswar Neog''' (7 September 1915 – 13 September 1995) was an Indian academic who specialised in the cultural history of the [[North East India]] especially [[Assam]], besides being an [[Assamese-language]] scholar and poet.<ref name="SharmaRatha1974">{{cite book|author1=Mukunda Madhava Sharma|author2=Satyanarayana Ratha|title=Dr. Maheswar Neog: A Profile and a Short Bibliography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ovUpmzQjmRAC|year=1974|publisher=Lawyer's Book Stall}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.assaminfo.com/famous-people/56/dr-maheswar-neog.htm |title=Professor Maheswar Neog |publisher=Assaminfo.com |access-date=10 February 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Bipuljyoti Saikia |url=http://www.bipuljyoti.in/authors/maheswarneog.html |title=Bipuljyoti Saikia's Homepage : Authors & Poets – Maheswar Neog |publisher=Bipuljyoti.in |date=7 September 1915 |access-date=10 February 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=sep1411/city07 |title=DU VC delivers Maheswar Neog lecture|publisher=The Assam Tribune Online |date=14 September 2011 |access-date=10 February 2014}}</ref> He was a top Indologist, and his work covers all disciplines of Indian studies, folk-lore, language, dance, history, music, religion, drama, fine arts, paintings, historiography and hagiography, lexicography and orthography, epigraphy and ethnography. His research includes multi-dimensional features of Vaishnava renaissance in Assam through Srimanta Sankardev, Madhabdev, Damodardev, Haridev, Bhattadev and other Vaishnava saints of Assam.<ref>{{Cite web|title=IGNCA Library Maheswar Neog’s Collection of Books {{!}} IGNCA|url=https://ignca.gov.in/ignca-news/|access-date=2021-11-15|website=ignca.gov.in}}</ref><br />
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An editorial in the ''Assam Times'' called him "a versatile scholar and visionary thinker with encyclopedic range."<ref>{{cite web|author=Dhruvajyoti Barua |url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=sep1309/edit2 |publisher=The Assam Tribune Online |title=Dr Maheswar Neog's contribution to GU|date=13 September 2009 |access-date=10 February 2014}}</ref> He remained Jawaharlal Nehru Professor at [[Gauhati University]] and later Saint Sankaradeva Professor at [[Punjabi University]].<br />
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He was awarded the [[Padma Shri]], India's fourth highest civilian honour in 1974,<ref>{{cite web|title=Padma Awards Directory (1954–2013) |publisher=[[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]] |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</ref> also in the same year he remained the President of [[Asam Sahitya Sabha]] (Assam Literary Society).<ref name="asamsahityasabha">{{cite web | url=http://www.asamsahityasabha.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=56 | title=List of Asam Sahitya Sabha presidents | access-date=7 December 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130129233721/http://www.asamsahityasabha.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=56 | archive-date=29 January 2013 | url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1994, he was awarded the [[List of Sangeet Natak Akademi fellows|Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship]] the highest honour conferred by [[Sangeet Natak Akademi]], India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama.<ref name=sna>{{cite web|url=http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/fellowslist.htm |title=SNA: List of Sangeet Natak Akademi ''Ratna Puraskar''winners (Akademi Fellows) |publisher=SNA Official website |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141206222925/http://www.sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/fellowslist.htm |archive-date=6 December 2014 }}</ref><br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* {{cite book|author=Maheswar Neog|title=Śaṅkaradeva and His Predecessors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YJKbOwAACAAJ|year=1953|publisher=Lawyer's Book Stall}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Maheswar Neog|title=The Art of Painting in Assam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v9kauAAACAAJ|year=1959|publisher=Gauhati}}<br />
* {{cite book|author1=Maheswar Neog|author2=Yadupati|author3=Keshav Changkakati|title=Rhythm in the Vaishnava music of Assam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rhc6AAAAIAAJ|year=1962|publisher=Bargīt Research Committee, Asam Sangeet Natak Akademi}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Maheswar Neog|title=Lakshminath Bezbaroa: the Sāhityarathī of Assam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KGRYAAAAMAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Dept. of Publication; Gauhati University}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Maheswar Neog|title=Assamese Drama and Theatre: A Series of Two Lectures(Delivered at the Indian School of Drama and Asian Theatre Centre, New Delhi, April 1962)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0J9YPwAACAAJ|year=1975|publisher=Neog}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Maheswar Neog|title=Sattrīyā dances|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZWLrPgAACAAJ|year=1975}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Maheswar Neog|title=Annals of Asam Sahitya-Sabha, 1917–1975|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=icUJAQAAIAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Asam Sahitya-Sabha}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Maheswar Neog|title=Early History of the Vaiṣṇava Faith and Movement in Assam: Śaṅkaradeva and His Times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DcReZM-rI0MC|year=1980|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Pub.|isbn=978-81-208-0007-6}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Maheswar Neog|title=Anandaram Dhekiyal Phukan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5hQ0AAAAMAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Sahitya Akademi}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Maheswar Neog|title=Socio-political Events in Assam Leading to the Militancy of the Māyāmariyā Vaiṣṇavas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h2keAAAAMAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta}}<br />
* {{cite book|author1=Sankaradeva|author2=Maheswar Neog|title=The Bhakti-ratnākara of Śaṅkaradeva|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ij4qAAAAYAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Publication Bureau, Punjabi University}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Maheswar Neog|title=Bhaona: the ritual play of Assam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OH5IAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Sangeet Natak Akademi}}<br />
*{{cite book|author=Maheswar Neog|title=Lachit Barphukan: The Victor of the Battle of Saraighat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_KkeAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Publications Division, Ministry of I &B, Govt. of India}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Maheswar Neog|title=Religions of the North-east: Studies in the Formal Religions of North-eastern India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_-oXAAAAIAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Maheswar Neog|title=Nidhi Levi Farwell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cqgBAAAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Sahitya Akademi}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Maheswar Neog|title=Gīta-Govinda in the Assam School of Painting|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=48twQgAACAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Publication Board, Assam}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Maheswar Neog|title=Professor Maheswar Neog Felicitation Volume: Volume on Art and Culture of India with Particular Reference to Assam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_2pjAAAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Bani Prokash Pvt. Ltd.}}<br />
* {{cite book|author1=Dr. Maheswar Neog Publication Trust|author2=Maheswar Neog|title="Maheswar Neog" on His Eighty First Birthday|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n_v6PgAACAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Maheswar Neog Publ. Trust}}<br />
*{{cite book|author=Maheswar Neog|title=The Contribution of the Śaṅkaradeva Movement to the Culture and Civilisation of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rvVlGwAACAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Forum for Śaṅkaradeva Studies}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Maheswar Neog|title=Cultural Heritage of Assam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P03HAAAACAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Omsons Publications|isbn=978-81-7117-212-2}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Maheswar Neog|title=Essays on Assamese Literatures|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TrFXHAAACAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Omsons Publications|isbn=978-81-7117-213-9}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Maheshwar Neog|title=Sankaradeva|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vQ1yjjg0tjQC|year=2005|publisher=National Book Trust, India|isbn=978-81-237-2758-5}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Maheswar Neog|title=Aesthetic Continuum: Essays on Assamese Music, Drama, Dance and Paintings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QVDsMgEACAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Omsons Publications}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Maheshwar Neog|title=Religions of the North-East: Studies In The Formal Religions Of North-Eastern India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tk5QYAAACAAJ|year=2010|publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal Pub.|isbn=978-81-215-0125-5}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Maheswar Neog|title=The Creative Force Behind the Śaṅkaradeva Renaissance: Bhakti and Other Aspects (i.e. Aspects of the Neo-Vaiṣṇava Movement in Assam)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XOITMwEACAAJ|year=2011|publisher=Professor Maheswar Neog Memorial Trust by Chandra Prakash|isbn=978-81-244-0161-3}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Maheswar Neog|title=Tradition and Style: A Few Studies on Assamese Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ig5mmwEACAAJ|year=2011|publisher=Professor Maheswar Neog Memorial Trust by Chandra Prakash|isbn=978-81-244-0160-6}}<br />
* {{cite book|author1=Mukunda Madhava Sharma|author2=Satyanarayana Ratha|title=Dr. Maheswar Neog: A Profile and a Short Bibliography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ovUpmzQjmRAC|year=1974|publisher=Lawyer's Book Stall}}<br />
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