Bhattacharya, Kamaleswar

Kamaleswar Bhattacharya was born in 1928 in northeast India. After mastering Sanskrit in a way that is only possible in India, he came to Paris in 1955 on a French Government Scholarship. He there received his doctorate in 1962, for work on the Sanskrit inscriptions of Cambodia. With the support of Louis Renou, he became Attache de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in 1960. He retired from there as Directeur de Recherche in 1996. He died in 2014.