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Ram Sharan Sharma was born on 26 November, 1919 in Barauni, Bihar and Orissa Province, British India, is an Indian historian and Indologist (1919–2011). Discover Ram Sharan Sharma's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 91 years old?

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Age 91 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 26 November 1919
Birthday 26 November
Birthplace Barauni, Bihar and Orissa Province, British India
Date of death 20 August, 2011
Died Place Patna, Bihar, India
Nationality India

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1919

Ram Sharan Sharma (26 November 1919 – 20 August 2011 ) was an Indian historian and Indologist who specialised in the history of Ancient and early Medieval India.

1937

He passed matriculation in 1937 and joined Patna College, where he studied for six years from intermediate to postgraduate classes.

He did his PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London under Professor A. L. Basham.

1943

Sharma taught at colleges in Arrah (1943) and Bhagalpur (July 1944 to November 1946) before coming to Patna College, Patna University in 1946.

1948

At the instance of Sachchidananda Sinha, when Professor Sharma was in Patna College, he worked as a special officer on deputation to the Political Department in 1948, where prepared a report on the Bihar-Bengal Boundary Dispute.

His pioneering effort resolved the border dispute forever as recorded by Sachchinand Sinha in a letter to Rajendra Prasad.

Sharma was born in Barauni, Begusarai, Bihar.

With great difficulty his father sponsored his education till matriculation.

After that he kept on getting scholarships and even did private tuition to support his education.

In his youth he came in contact with peasant leaders like Karyanand Sharma and Sahajanand Saraswati and scholars like Rahul Sankrityayan and perhaps from them he imbibed the determination to fight for social justice and an abiding concern for the downtrodden which drew him to left ideology.

His later association with Dr. Sachchidananda Sinha, a social reformer and journalist, broadened his mental horizon and firmly rooted him in the reality of rural India and thus strengthened his ties with the left movement and brought him into the front rank of anti-imperialist and anti-communal intellectuals of the country.

Sharma was foremost among the Indian intellectuals who wanted historians to realise that the discipline of history was not just about what happened in the past but what its lessons were for imaginatively and intelligently responding to the challenges of the present.

1958

He was a University Grants Commission National Fellow (1958–81) and the president of Indian History Congress in 1975.

His PhD thesis on the history of Sudras in Ancient India was published as a book by Motilal Banarsidass in 1958, with a revised edition in 1990.

He became the head of the Department of History at Patna University from 1958 to 1973.

He became a university professor in 1958.

1959

He has been a visiting fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (1959–64); University Grants Commission National Fellow (1958–81); visiting professor of history in University of Toronto (1965–66); President of Indian History Congress in 1975 and recipient of Jawaharlal Nehru Award in 1989.

1969

He got the Jawaharlal Fellowship in 1969.

1970

It was during his tenure as the dean of Delhi University's History Department that major expansion of the department took place in the 1970s.

The creation of most of the positions in the department were the results of his efforts.

He was the founding Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) and a historian of international repute.

During his lifetime, he authored 115 books published in fifteen languages.

He influenced major decisions relating to historical research in India in his roles as head of the departments of History at Patna and Delhi University, as Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research, as an important member of the National Commission of the History of Sciences in India and UNESCO Commission on the history of Central Asian Civilizations and of the University Grants Commission and, above all, as a practising historian.

1972

He was the founding chairperson of Indian Council of Historical Research from 1972 to 1977.

1973

He taught at Patna University and Delhi University (1973–85) and was visiting faculty at University of Toronto (1965–1966).

He also was a senior fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

He served as professor and dean of the History Department at Delhi University from 1973 to 1978.

He became the deputy-chairperson of UNESCO's International Association for Study of Central Asia from 1973 to 1978; he has served as an important member of the National Commission of History of Sciences in India and a member of the University Grants Commission.

1983

Sharma got the Campbell Memorial Gold Medal (for outstanding Indologist) for 1983 by the Asiatic Society of Bombay in November 1987; received the H. K. Barpujari Biennial National Award by Indian History Congress for Urban Decay in India in 1992 and worked as national fellow of the Indian Council of Historical Research (1988–91).

He is a member of many academic committees and associations.

1992

He has also been recipient of the K. P. Jayaswal Fellowship of the K. P. Jayaswal Research Institute, Patna (1992–94); he was invited to receive Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri Birth Centenary Gold Medal for outstanding historian from Asiatic Society in August 2001; and in 2002 the Indian History Congress gave him the Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade Award for his lifelong service and contribution to Indian history.

He got D.Litt.

(Honoris Causa) from The University of Burdwan and a similar degree from Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarnath, Varanasi.

He is also the president of the editorial group of the scholastic magazine Social Science Probings.

He is a member of the board of Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library.

His works have been translated into many Indian languages apart from being written in Hindi and English.

Fifteen of his works have been translated into Bengali.

Apart from Indian languages many of his works have been translated into many foreign languages like Japanese, French, German, Russian, etc.

In the opinion of fellow historian Professor Irfan Habib, "D. D. Kosambi and R. S. Sharma, together with Daniel Thorner, brought peasants into the study of Indian history for the first time."

1996

Prof. Dwijendra Narayan Jha published a book in his honour in 1996, titled "Society and Ideology in India: ed. Essays in Honour of Professor R. S. Sharma" (Munshiram Manoharlal, Delhi, 1996).