The publication of these proceedings is the outcome of a two-day National Seminar held at the Asiatic Society on 2nd and 3rd December, 2010 on the occasion of observance of 150 years birth anniversary of Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray. It is a matter of great pride that Acharya Ray, who had become a legendary icon during his lifetime in the academic and public domain of late nineteenth century scenario in Bengal in particular, India in general and beyond, was closely associated with the Asiatic Society in many ways. Apart from his seminal papers published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society (1894, 1897) and later autobiographical testimony which captured an overview of the development of science, society, polity of this country reprinted by the Asiatic Society (in 1996, original in 1932, 1935), he was also on committees of the Society such as Member, Physical Science Committee in 1896. He was also nominated as a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1910. The Asiatic Society awarded him Sir William Jones Memorial Medal in 1940. Even from his own record it seems he had declined the offer of the position of Principal in Rajsahi College in 1897 because by that time he was already engaged studying some basic documents in the library of the Asiatic Society for writing a book entitled Rasarnava published by the Society in 1910.

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