Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri

Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri was born on 23 November 1950 in the village of Gopalpur in Pabna (now in Bangladesh). He is an Indian historian, writer, and Indologist. He is a specialist in Indian epics, Vedas, and Puranas.

He earned a Master of Arts degree in the Sanskrit language from the University of Calcutta. He was a reader of Sanskrit at Gurudas College, Kolkata. He retired from his job on 30 November 2010.

In 2012, He undertook the large-scale project of creating an encyclopedia of the major Indian epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana. The project is freely available online. Due to the difficulty and complexity of the task, it took Bhaduri a decade to conceptualize the project. During the compendium’s creation, several Indian journalists stated that the encyclopedia was poised to challenge many long-held beliefs about the epics.