Prof. PALLAB SENGUPTA (b.1940) is a descendant of the late-medieval saint-poet Ramprasad Sen. His father Nandagopal Sengupta, a noted journalist and author, was the literary secretary of Rabindranath.
Sengupta studied in Mitra Institution (Bhowanipore),Presidency College and University of Calcutta. Sengupta obtained his Honours and Master's Degrees in Bengali language and literature, Ph.D in Indian Writings in English from University of Calcutta and D.Lit. in Theoritical Folkloristics from Rabindra Bharati University.
Sengupta began his career in a Kolkata college and then joined Rabindra Bharati University from where
he retired as Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Professor of Bengali Literature. He also taught Comparative
Literature in Jadavpur University as a visiting faculty. At present he is the Vice-president of The Asiatic
Society, Kolkata.
He has successfully guided about 80 Ph.D and M.Phil researches in different branches
of Folklore and some allied areas of Social sciences, Bengali literature and different literatures of the
Indian sub-continent.
He also was in the editorial board of well-known literary journal Chatushkon in the late 60's and early
70's of the previous century. He is also a member of the executive committee of Paschimbanga Bangla
Academy since its inception.
Pallab Sengupta is a well-known essayist, translator and literary critic—both in Bengali and English.He started his literary pursuit since he was in his teens. He has so far written, edited and translated 20 books both in English and Bengali.
A recognised expert in the Science of Folklore, he is also known to the academic and literary circles in the country as an authority in Comparative Modern Indian Literature, Literature of Bangladesh, American and European Literatures as-well-as, socio-cultural history and classical texts of India .He has more than 500 papers published in last five decades or so published in India and abroad,related to all these subjects.
He is deeply involved in the cultural movements of the country and in this connection has earned a vast experience of folkloric field-studies. Presently he is a senior vice-president of Democratic Writers and Artists Association, West Bengal.
Sengupta presently is engaged in exploring the varied aspects of folkloric and mythic archetypes of modern literature.
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