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DR. SRI RAM(A) SINHA (24.4.1931 – 15.4.1985)

Sri Ram Sinha belonged to one of the illustrious Zamindar (landlord) family of Azamgarh-Ghosi in Central India. His father, Babu Jaigovind Prasad Saheb, was an influential Zamindar of the region and a Sub-Inspector in British Police Force (since early 1900s). Sri Ram was born to Babu Jai Govind Prasad (a recipient of Queen’s Medal in 1932 for his exemplary services) on 24 April, 1931 at Safdarganj, District Barabanki, U.P. (India) during his father’s postings as Sub-Inspector. In 1952, Sri Ram Sinha married Shanno Rai, daughter of Babu Amrit Rai - an attorney for the erstwhile princely Estates of British India, and was based at Rae Bareli. She was the niece of Indian politician (Babu Mangala Prasad of Bampur, Allahabad) and worked as a Lecturer in Government Girls Intermediate College, Allahabad; U.P. Board of Higher Secondary Education, Allahabad and Home Science Training College, Allahabad.

In his early days, Dr. Sinha studied at Queens’ College, Benares (now called Varanasi). After passing his Intermediate (XII Grade) examination, he joined B.A. at University of Allahabad offering Mathematics, Sanskrit and Military Science. He topped in the B.A. examination of the University held in 1948 securing a first division. At his M.A. (Mathematics) examination of the same University, held in 1950, he stood 2nd. During this period he bagged many medals, merit scholarships and participated in many Sanskrit Dramas at the University. Dr. Sinha worked under Padma Vibhushan recipient Prof. Dr. Badri Nath Prasad (an eminent mathematician) for his doctorate and earned D.Phil. degree of the University of Allahabad in 1954.

He started his professional career as Lecturer in Department of Mathematics of University of Allahabad in 1951; was promoted as Reader in 1969. He taught both pure and applied mathematics including Astronomy and Numerical Analysis to Postgraduate students. In 1980, he went as a Fulbright Fellow to University of Kentucky, Lexington (USA) and a Visiting Scientist in Australia in 1982. He also visited Israel, Poland and U.K. on academic assignments. He published many research papers in the field of "Absolute Summability of Fourier Series and its Conjugate Series". He also supervised Ph.D. and D.Sc. dissertations of many students in the areas of Summability Methods and in the History of Mathematics. Some of his worthy students have been Prof. Nand Kishore, Prof. Lal Mani Tripathi, Prof. Narayan Das Mehrotra, Dr. Ashok Saxena, Dr. Vikramaditya Singh, Dr. Rama Shankar Lal (who worked under him in the area of Ancient Hindu Mathematics) etc. It is unfortunate that Ashok died prematurely during lifetime of Dr. Sinha while Dr. V.D. Singh (respectively Dr. Nand Kishore) passed away on 4 July, 2011 (resp. 12 June, 2017) after their superannuation as Professors from HRI, Allahabad (res. Berhampur University, Berhampur, Odisha). Both Dr. L.M. Tripathi and Dr. V.D. Singh had earned their D.Sc. degrees of the University of Allahabad under able supervision of Dr. Sinha. Dr. Sinha was a Founder/Life Member of Allahabad Mathematical Society, founded by his teacher (Prof. B.N. Prasad) and worked as the Secretary of the Society since 1968 till his death. He was unanimously elected as the President of Mathematics Section of Indian Science Congress for the years 1974-75. He was also a member of Indian Mathematical Society, National Academy of Sciences and Society for International Development (USA).

Dr. Sinha proved his worth by accomplishing a dream of his mentor-like teacher (Prof. B.N. Prasad) and established "Mehta Research Institute for Mathematics & Mathematical Physics" at Allahabad (initially in a rented building at Dilkusha, Katra, Allahabad) in 1968. Dr. Sinha worked on honorary basis as its Officer-in-charge till 1975 - when the Institute could get its first regular Director (Prof. Dr. P.L. Bhatnagar). Unfortunately, due to sudden and untimely death of Prof. Bhatnagar on 5 October, 1976 the responsibility of MRI again fell on the trusted shoulders of Dr. Sinha till his death. Later, MRI was taken over by the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India and re-named as Harish Chandra Research Institute after another illustrious alumnae (Prof. Harish Chandra, FRS) of the University of Allahabad who died at Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey (USA) on 16 October, 1983.

Dr. Sinha was also a scholar of Sanskrit language and used to direct Sanskrit dramas full of symbolic images and universal, timeless themes at Department of Sanskrit and Auditorium of University of Allahabad in the 1960s. In 1983, after a long gap, he directed a classic ‘Mricchakatika’ (The Little Clay Cart) attributed to Sudraka, a ten act Sanskrit drama which was staged at Ganganatha Jha Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth (under the Ministry of HRD, Government of India). Dr. Sinha was also one of the Patrons of the All India Music Conferences organized annually at Prayag Sangeet Samiti, Allahabad in an institution of more than 100 years history for Indian performing arts and music. He was also the Life Member and part of the executive body of Prayag Sangeet Samiti.

Besides, many research papers and popular articles published in research journals, he also published 4 texts: 2 in English: Theory of Equations, Coordinate Geometry; and 2 in Hindi: "Samikaran Siddhant" = Principles of Equations and "Anant Shreniyon ka Abhisaran tatha Apsaran" = Convergence and Divergence of Infinite Series. Dr. Sinha will be remembered for long for his selfless service towards his teacher and for his creations. In absence of Prof. Prasad's only son (who could not reach Allahabad in time from Mumbai in 1966), Dr. Sinha also performed the last rites of his teacher (Dr. B.N. Prasad). He never had any (visible) clash even with his critics and was ever ready to help anyone seeking the same. He had remarkable ability for proof corrections. Hardly any typographical error could escape from his eyesight. Once lying on the hospital bed he was seen attending the urgent administrative files in 1979 before leaving for USA. His dedication and missionary working is exemplified by one of the instances as the Returning Officer to conduct the Allahabad University Students' Union Election. Having worked continuously for nearly 16 hours (and possibly missing his lunch too) when he was announcing the election results at late evening (after 10 p.m.) his body was completely shivering. In addition to his teaching liability at the University and taking care of MRI, he was also the Warden of Sir Ganga Nath Jha Hostel (1969-80) and often worked as "Officer on Special Duty" at the University of Allahabad. Dr. Sinha organized a big Conference sponsored by the UGC on the History of Mathematics at University of Allahabad in March 1985 and had (almost) worked single handed restlessly getting completely exhausted that ultimately led to his untimely departure. He died of cardiac failure on 15 April, 1985 at his residence in Allahabad without getting proper medical care due to lack of a vehicle. Their car was parked at home without any driver and Mrs. Sinha did not know driving while their son (Chandranshu) was then a minor one. Later, both Chandranshu and his wife (Ruchi Datta Sinha) earned their doctoral degree in Psychology from University of Allahabad and are blessed with a son (Arnav). They are currently working as Professors in Amity University, NOIDA near Delhi.

References:

1. On the Non-Summability of the Conjugate Series of a Fourier Series 2. http://worldcat.org/identities/np-sinha,%20s%20r/ 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harish-Chandra_Research_Institute 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harish-Chandra 5. http://www.academia.edu/281728/MATHEMATICS_AND_MATHEMATICI... 6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Allahabad 7. http://www.amsallahabad.org/bnprasad.html 8. Factors affecting quality of work life: empirical evidence from Indian organizations 9. Quality of Work Life - Australian Journal of Business and Management ... 10. Factors affecting employee retention: A comparative analysis of two organizations from heavy engineering industry 11. Factors Affecting Employee Retention: A Comparative ... – Research Gate 12. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0972262916678085 13. Role of Collectivistic, Individualistic Approaches and Social Factors for Employee Retention: A Study on Selected IT Organizations in the NCR of Delhi 14. http://www.serialsjournals.com/articles.php?volumesno_id=1157&journals_id=22& volumes_id=1066 15. Social Movements as Methods of Social Change: A Study on the Delhi Experiment. 16. Emotional After-effects of Change: Empirical Evidence from an Indian Organization 17. Misra, R.B.: Pillars of Mathematics sprouted/progressed/shrunk at Allahabad (India), 2017.