B.A. Gupte

Balkrishna Atmaram Gupte (1851–1925) was the assistant Director of Ethnography of India under Sir Herbert Hope Risley and later an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London. He was the author of "Hindu Holidays And Ceremonials" and several other books. Later he was a professor at Calcutta. He was awarded the title "Rai Bahadur".[1][2][3][4]

References
  1. B.T. GopalaKrishna (2013). Festivals and Dalits. p. 4. Sri Rai Bahadur B A Gupte the writer and author of the book Hindu holidays and ceremonials was the Asst. Director of ethnography for India under Sir Herbert
  2. Rai Bahadur B.A.Gupte (1916). Hindu Holidays and Ceremonials: With Dissertations on Origin, Folklore and Symbols. Thacker Spink.
  3. Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright. "Folklore - Volumes 33-34": 328. Mr. Enthoven is well known as one of the band of Bombay scholars, including the late Mr. A. M. T. Jackson, Mr. D. R. Bhandarkar, and Mr. B. A. Gupte, who have done so much to advance our knowledge of the religions, history, archaeology." Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  4. "The Calcutta review". 1925: 395. THE LATE RAI BAHADUR B. A. GUPTE. By the death of Rai Bahadur Gupte the University has lost an able teacher and profound scholar of Anthropology.His was an eventful career.[...] Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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