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1891–1959 · Founding editor of the Indian Journal of Dermatology
Ganapati Panja was a dermatologist and bacteriologist at Calcutta’s School of Tropical Medicine. He became the founding editor of the Indian Journal of Dermatology in 1955, guiding it until his death in 1959.[1]
His research included seborrhoeic dermatitis and Malassezia. The journal’s history places him alongside Hugh W. Acton in the development of dermatology at the Calcutta school.[1] His younger brother, Dhanapati Panja, also became a dermatologist.[2][3]
Achintya Kumar Dutta names Ganapati Panja of Majhigram among the community’s intellectual figures, pp. 313–314.[4]