Jayanta Kumar Ray

Jayanta Kumar Ray (born 9 December 1934 (East Bengal, Undivided India); died 18 December 2021 (Kolkata, India)) was an Indian historian and National Research Professor.

Awards and recognition

 * Eminent Teacher Awards, University of Calcutta, 2014
 * National Research Professor, 2015

Selected publications

 * Transfer of Power in Indonesia 1942-49, Bombay: Manaktalas, 1967.
 * Security in the Missile Age, Bombay: Allied, 1967.
 * Democracy and Nationalism on Trial: A Study of East Pakistan, Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1968.
 * Portraits of Thai Politics, New Delhi: Orient Longman, 1972.
 * Public Policy and Global Reality, New Delhi: Radiant, 1977.
 * Administrators in a Mixed Polity, New Delhi: Macmillan, 1981.
 * Organizing Villagers for Self-Reliance: A Study of Deedar in Bangladesh, Comilla: Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development, 1983.
 * Organizing Villagers for Self-Reliance: A Study of Gonoshasthya Kendra in Bangladesh, Calcutta: Orient Longman, 1986.
 * Centre-State Financial Relations in India (Co-author: Hiroshi Sato), Tokyo: Institute of Developing Economies, 1987.
 * To Chase a Miracle: A Study of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, Dhaka: The University Press Ltd, 1987.
 * India : In Search of Good Governance, Kolkata: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, 2001.
 * India’s Foreign Relations, 1947-2007, New Delhi: Routledge, 2011.