Maheswar_Neog
Maheswar Neog
Indian historian, scholar and poet (1915–1995)
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.[1][2][3][4] 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.[5]
An editorial in The Assam Tribune called him "a versatile scholar and visionary thinker with encyclopedic range."[6] He remained Jawaharlal Nehru Professor at Gauhati University and later Saint Sankaradeva Professor at Punjabi University.
He was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour in 1974,[7] also in the same year he remained the President of Asam Sahitya Sabha (Assam Literary Society).[8] In 1994, he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship the highest honour conferred by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama.[9]
