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Dr Manohar Ray

Manohar Ray was a mathematician and educationist whom Dutta identifies as Manohar Roy of Nasigram.

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Also written Manohar Roy · Principal of Agra College, 1960–1970

Manohar Ray was a mathematician and educationist whom Dutta identifies as Manohar Roy of Nasigram. Agra College’s official record lists Dr Manohar Ray as its principal from 1960 to 1970, with doctorates and fellowships in Indian scientific academies.^[1]^[2]

The Royal Society’s archive preserves a referee’s report on his research into the motion of an elliptic cylinder in a fluid, linking his career to mathematical work on fluid motion.^[3]

Dutta names the mathematician from Nasigram among Ugra Kshatriya intellectual figures, pp. 313–314. “Ray” follows the college and Royal Society records; Dutta uses “Roy.”^[1]

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Achintya Kumar Dutta, “Prosperity, Dominance, and Social Mobility: Emergence of a Mobile Caste in Colonial Southwest Bengal” (2023), pp. 297–324. Complete chapter, including endnotes and references, read directly in the supplied book. Page references use its printed pagination. Origin hypotheses remain attributed to the author. Link opens the publisher’s book record. Source details
Agra College — Our Principals. College list read directly. Uses the spelling Ray; Dutta identifies the mathematician of Nasigram as Manohar Roy. Source details
Royal Society — referee’s report on Manohar Ray’s fluid-motion paper (1936). Archival catalogue establishes the author, research subject and contemporary scientific assessment. Source details