Historian and Tagore biographer Uma Das Gupta
was educated at Presidency College, Calcutta, and
the University of Oxford. She taught at Jadavpur
University, Calcutta, and at Visva-Bharati University,
Santiniketan. She was Director of the United States
Educational Foundation for Eastern India and was a
participant of the UNESCO Project titled ‘For A Reconciled Universal:
Rabindranath Tagore, Pablo Neruda, Aime Cesaire’. She retired as
Professor, Social Sciences Division, Indian Statistical Institute.
