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Professor Awadh Kishore Narain (A. K. Narain, 28 May 1925 – 10 July 2013) was an Indian historian, numismatist and archaeologist, who has published and lectured extensively on the subjects related to South and Central Asia. He is well known for his book, ''The Indo Greeks'',〔(Historians of India, Pakistan and CeylonBooks )〕〔(Google book results on A.K. Narain )〕 published by Oxford University Press in 1956, in which he discussed the thesis of British historian Sir William Woodthorpe Tarn.〔(Professor A.K. Narain, Historian of India and IABS Founding Member, passed away )〕 His later research was about the history of peoples of Central Asia who followed the Indo-Greeks, e.g. the Indo–Scythians, Indo–Parthians and the Yue Zhi-Kushans. He organised an international conference in London on the problem of the date of Kanishka. He continued working on the history of these people, their movements and interactions in the context of South and Central Asia as is evident from several of his articles and lectures. More recently, he was working on a multi-volume project entitled From Kurush (Cyrus) to Kanishka, several volumes of which are ready for publication. Two other areas of A.K.'s interest have been Historiography and Buddhist Studies. Professor Narain, was born in 1925 at Gaya in Bihar, India and died on 10 July 2013 in Varanasi, India that has been his home for most of his adult life. In 1947 he was awarded a Post Graduate Degree in Ancient Indian History, Culture (AIHC) and Archaeology from Banaras Hindu University (BHU) securing the first position in the University and claiming the Dayaram Sahni Gold Medal. He earned his PhD degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 1954. In his long association with his Alma Mater he held many academic and administrative positions at BHU. He has been the Manindra Chandra Nandi Professor of AIHC & Archaeology; Head of the Department of AIHC & Archaeology; Principal, College of Indology; Dean, Faculty of Arts and Director of Archaeological Excavations and Explorations Programme of the University. In 1971, he became Professor of History and South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA, where he was also the Chair of the Buddhist Studies Program.(http://www.southasia.wisc.edu/newsletter/sasianstudies.html) In 1987, he sought early retirement from UW–Madison, and returned to India to found the Bhikkhu J. Kashyap Institute of Buddhist and Asian Studies of which he was the first Director. He remained Professor Emeritus of History and of Languages and Cultures of Asia at UW-Madison. Professor Narain was a Visiting Research Associate, School of Oriental and African Studies, London; Visiting Professor, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota; Visiting Professor, Visvabharati, Shantiniketan; Fellow, Institute of Research in Humanities, University of Wisconsin; Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Visiting Fellow at Columbia University and New York University. He was the recipient of many notable awards, and research grants including the Holkar Fellowship, Chakravikrama Gold Medal, Rockefeller Grant, Ford Foundation grant and Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a Life Fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society, London and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He is also an Honorary Member of the International Association of Buddhist studies. Prof. Narain was also known for his extensive editorial contributions. He edited the following academic journals: (1) Bharati, Research Bulletin of College of Indology, BHU; (2) Puratattva, Bulletin of the Archeological Society of India; (3) Journal of International Association of Buddhist Studies; (4) Journal of Indian Buddhist Studies; (5) The Indian Journal of Asian Studies; (6) Asia Prashant (Journal of The Indian Congress of Asian and Pacific Studies); and (7) The Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies. Prof. Narain published over one hundred articles & reviews on topics related to history, polity, art, archaeology, anthropology, iconography, epigraphy and paleography, numismatics and religion in various national and international journals. (source:http://www.bhu.ac.in/alumni/aknairn.html) ==Notable awards, research grants and other recognitions== * Campbell Gold Medal for Life Time Achievements in Ancient History, Numismatics and Archaeology by the Asiatic Society of Bombay, 2010 * Dayaram Sahni Gold Medal for First position in MA (1947), BHU * Holkar Fellowship for higher studies in London (1952–54) * Chakravikrama Gold Medal from the Numismatic Society of India * Rockefeller grant for the International seminars and conference on Historical Writings on Asia, London (1956) * Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton * Ford Foundation grant for work as Consultant for the editing of Special lectures on Indian Civilization at the University of Wisconsin * Guggenheim Fellowship (1973–74); Recipient of research grants from the American Council of Learned Society, American Philosophical Association etc. * Life Fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society, London * Elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain (1991) * Visited the USSR for three months in 1965 as a guest of the Academy of Sciences and as Government of India Exchange Scholar. Visited USSR again in 1973 from USA. * Visited Mongolia, Poland and Afghanistan as Govt. of India exchange scholar, (1965) * Member of Justice Khosla Committee appointed by the Govt. of India to review the works of the three National Akademis of India (Sahitya Akademi, Lalit Kala Akademi and Sangeet-Natak Akademi) and the Indian Council of Cultural Relations (1969–70) * Visited Peoples Republic of China in 1983 under the Distinguished Scholars' Exchange Program of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, at the invitation of the Academy of Social Sciences, China, and again in 1999 to study the "Mummies" discovered in Xinjiang * Visited Turkey as specially invited guest on the occasion of their International Symposium on Turcology. Also nominated as one of the organising editors of Hinduistan Turk Tarihi Arastirmalari, The Journal of Indo-Turcica (JIT), 2002 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Awadh Kishore Narain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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