Rangan Kanti Jana

Rangan Kanti Jana is an Indian historian and archaeologist currently serving as curator of the Museum and Art Gallery at The University of Burdwan. He is also an executive committee member at the Centre for Archaeological Studies & Training, member of the editorial board, Puravritta, Directorate of Archaeology and Museums. Dept. I and C, Govt. of West Bengal. Eastern India, member of executive committee 2018-2021 - Paschimbanga Itihas Samsad as well as member of The Asiatic Society.
== Early life and education ==
Dr. Jana was born in Ballygunge in South Kolkata and graduated from Presidency University, Kolkata. He later pursued his Masters and Ph.D from University of Calcutta.
== Major works in the museum ==
Under the supervision of Dr.Jana, the experts from Directorati of Archaeology and Museums Govt. of West Bengal completed the total digital accession of the Museum's objects.
He also published the first descriptive catalogue of sculptures of the museum jointly with B. Chatterjee.
Under the able supervision of Dr.Jana, the biggest oil painting Coronation of Bijay Chand Mahtab had been fully restored by the experts of the Victoria Memorial, Kolkata between 1998 and 2006.
== Publications ==
* Tradition of Indigenous boat building in West Bengal, 1st Report of the CSIR-EMR- 11 Project. "Tradition of Indigenous Navigation in the Indian Ocean (Bengal Coast), Calcutta, 1993.
* Glimpses of Jain Heritage in Ancient Bengal, Jainism and Prakrit in Ancient nnd Medieval India, (Ed.) N.N. Bhattacharyya, New Delhi, 1994.
* Boat Building Traditions in Medieval Bengal, Bulletin of the School of Historical and Cultural Studies, Vol, 1, No. 2, Calcutta, 1994.
* Kaivartta Revolt-a peasant uprising in the Pala Age, Journal of Ancient Indian History & Culture-Calcutta University, Vol XiX parts 1-2; 1989-90, Calcutta, 1994.
* Ships on Seals from Chandraketugarh, Indian Museum Bulletin, Volume 29, Caltutta,1994.
* Ancient Tamralipta-Myth and Reality, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay, Vol 7 (New series), Bombay, 1996
* Medieval Bengali texts on Boats-Boat Building Technique-Commodities and Trade Routes, the Historical Review, Vol. IV, No. 1 and 2, Calcutta, 1996.
* Tracing the Geographical location of Tamralipta, Journal of Ancient Indian History and Culture-Calcutta University, Vol XX, Calcutta, 1996-97.
* Emergence of a Neo-Religious thought in the proto-medieval Bengal, Tantric Buddhism: a Centennial Tribute to B. T. Bhattacharyya, (Ed.) N. N. Bhattacharyya, New Delhi, 1998.
* Coinage-Coins; Eras; Epigraphy; Scripts; Encyclopaedia of Ancient Indian Culture, (Ed.) N.N. Bhattacharyya, New Delhi, 1998.
* The Coastal West Bengal: An Archaeological Study, Reconstructing History (Essays in Honour of Professor V.C. Srivastava), (Ed.) V.D. Misra, Banaras, 1998.
* The Traditional Country Boat building technology of West Bengal, Journal of Indian Ocean Studies, Vol 6, No 2, New Delhi, 1999.
* Indian Shipping: A glossary of the Key words collected from Indian texts, Journal of the Department of History, Vol 3 No. 1, the University of Burdwan, Burdwan, 2000.
* The Life on Board (C800 AD. to 1400 AD.) in the Eastern Maritime Trade, Perspective of Indian History (Essays in Honour of Dr. S. B. Choudhury), (Ed) B. Chattopadhyay, Calcutta, 2000.
* Two Images of the Goddess Chamunda, Indian Museum Bulletin, Vol. XXXV, Kolkata, 2000.
*Professor D.D. Kosambi: A Centennial Tribute, The Quarterly Review of Historical Studies, Vol XLV, No 1 and 2, Kolkata, 2005.
*The Study of Local History-a new approach, Utkal Historlcal Research Journal, Vol XIX, P.G. Department of History Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, 2006.
*A note on the Image of Sadasiva, Nrityarasamanjari, 5th year (Department of Dance Rabindra Bharati University), Kolkata 2007.
*An Inscribed Jambhala Image from Mangalkot-Burdwan, Journal of History (Dept. of History, Jadavpur University) vol 26, Kolkata, 2008-2009.
* The Buddhist Goddess of Dwan—Marichipichuva from Purba Bardhaman, West Bengal
*An observation on-'A note on the Bengal School of Artists'-Journal of the Asiatic Society Vol. LIX, No. 3, Kolkata, 2017.
*Indigenous Cutlery Industry at Kanchannagar, Burdwan, West Bengal, Icon-Journal of Archaeology and Cultural, Vol 4, Bhopal, 2017.
*Some Jaina Remains in Barddhaman District West Bengal, The Asiatic Society- Monthly Bulletin Vol. XLVIII No 4, Kolkata, 2019.
== Books ==
* Descriptive Catalogue of Sculptures, Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Burdwan, 2001, jointly Edited with Bhaskar Chattopadhyay 
* Dhokra Art of West Bengal, Institute of Historical Studies, Kolkata, and Raktakarabi, Kolkata, 2013. 
* Emergence of neo-religious thought in proto-medieval Bengal, New Delhi Manohar 1999 
* Paścimabaṅgera jalayāna, 2017
* Kanchannagar: cutlery obsolescent indigenous-technology, Institute of Historical Studies, December 2017 
Category:Indian historians
Category:Indian archaeologists 
Category:People from West Bengal 
Category:University of Calcutta alumni