Maheswar Neog

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. 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.

An editorial in ''The Assam Tribune'' called him "a versatile scholar and visionary thinker with encyclopedic range." 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, also in the same year he remained the President of Asam Sahitya Sabha (Assam Literary Society). 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. Provided by Wikipedia
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  1. 1
    by Neog, Maheswar, 1918-
    Published 1963
    Natuna Dillī, Sāhitya Akādemī [1963]
    38, 449 p. 23 cm.
  2. 2
    by Neog, Maheswar, 1918-
    Published 1967
    New Delhi, National Book Trust, India [1967]
    111, [1] p. 18 cm.
  3. 3
    by Neog, Maheswar, 1918-
    Published 1969
    1969.
    55, 361 p. illus. 23 cm.
  4. 4
    by Neog, Maheswar, 1918-
    Published 1978
    Guwāhāṭī : Bīṇā Lāibrerī, 1978.
    7, 67 p. ; 22 cm.
  5. 5
    by Neog, Maheswar, 1918-
    Published 1981
    Jorhat : Asam Sahitya Sabha, 1981.
    viii, 168 p. ; 22 cm.
  6. 6
    by Neog, Maheswar, 1918-
    Published 1965
    1965.
    186 p. 22 cm.
  7. 7
    by Neog, Maheswar, 1918-
    Published 1977
    Guwāhātī : Asama Prakāśana Parishada, 1977.
    10, 581 p. ; 21 cm.
  8. 8
    by Neog, Maheswar, 1918-
    Published 1973
    Guwāhāṭī, Asama Prakāśana Parishada, 1973.
    27, 93, [1], 474 p. illus. 25 cm.
  9. 9
    by Neog, Maheswar, 1918-
    Published 1983
    Yorahāṭa, Asama : Asama Sāhitya Sabhā, 1983.
    111 p. ; 23 cm.
  10. 10
    by Neog, Maheswar, 1918-
    Published 1980
    New Delhi : Sahitya Akademi, 1980.
    53 p. ; 22 cm.
  11. 11
    by Neog, Maheswar, 1918-
    Published 1976
    Jorhat : Asam Sahitya-Sabha, 1976.
    x, 79 p.. [5] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
  12. 12
    by Śubhaṅkara, 15th cent
    Published 1980
    Jorhat, Assam : Asam Sahitya-Sabha, 1980.
    xi, 164 p., [6] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
    Other Authors: ...Neog, Maheswar, 1918-...
  13. 13
    by Barua, Kanak Lal
    Published 1973
    Jorhat, Kanaklal Barua Birth Centenary Celebration Committee [on behalf of] Asam Sahitya Sabha, 1973.
    14, xx, 342 p. illus., maps. 25 cm.
    Other Authors: ...Neog, Maheswar, 1918-...
  14. 14
    Published 1972
    Gauhati, Dept. of Publication] Gauhati University, 1972.
    ix, 272 p. illus. 25 cm.
    Other Authors: ...Neog, Maheswar, 1918-...
  15. 15
    1968.
    32, 368 p. facsim., port. 23 cm.
    Other Authors: ...Neog, Maheswar, 1918-...
  16. 16
    by Mahanta, Puwārāma
    Published 1977
    Guwāhāṭī : Guwāhāṭī Buka Shṭala, 1977.
    226 p. : geneal. table ; 23 cm.
    Other Authors: ...Neog, Maheswar, 1918-...
  17. 17
    by Sankaradeva, 1449-1569
    Published 1982
    Patiala : Publication Bureau, Punjab University, 1982.
    xiv, 170, 204 p., [2] leaves of plates : facsims. ; 26 cm.
    Other Authors: ...Neog, Maheswar, 1918-...
  18. 18
    by Sankaradeva, 1449-1569
    Published 1962
    1962.
    48, 926 p. 19 cm.
    Other Authors: ...Neog, Maheswar, 1918-...
  19. 19
    Yorahāṭa, Asama Sāhitya Sabhā, 1969-1976.
    2 v. port. 23 cm.
    Other Authors: ...Neog, Maheswar, 1918-...
  20. 20
    Published 1966
    Gauhati, Local Committee, XXII Session, All India Oriental Conference, 1966.
    xii, lxxvi, 244 p. port. 26 cm.
    Other Authors: ...Neog, Maheswar, 1918-...

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