Benudhar Patra

Dr. Benudhar Patra is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the P.G. Department of History, Post Graduate Government College, Sector-11, Chandigarh. His field of specialization is Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology. He has been teaching history for the last 21 years. He has contributed more than 85 research papers in various journals of national and international repute and in some edited books. He has completed a UGC sponsored Research Project on Urbanization in Early India and a Major Research Project sponsored by UGC is presently being conducted under his supervision. His publications include Studies in the Heritage, History and Archaeology of Orissa (Kolkata, 2008) and Dalits in Historical Perspective in North-Western India (ed.) (Delhi, 2010). His other fields of research are urban history, economic history, social history, state formation, art history, historiography and the cult of Jagannath.