Education
Balliol College; Presidency University, Kolkata. Scottish Church College.
Balliol College; Presidency University, Kolkata. Scottish Church College.
He was a Reader in Modern South Asian History at University of Oxford from 1973 to 1992. One year before retirement in 1993, he was given an ad hominem promotion to Professor of Indian History and Civilization. He was also Fellow of Street Antony"s College, Oxford from 1973-1993 where he remained as an Emeritus Fellow until his death in 2014.
He was a student of Jagabandhu Institution, Calcutta, Ballygunge Government High School, Calcutta, Barisal Zilla School, Scottish Church College, Calcutta and finally Presidency College, Calcutta.
He was a Deputy Director of the National Archives of India and taught at the Delhi School of Economics under Delhi University where he was the Director for a few years. Watumull Prize awarded by the American Historical Association, 1982.
(jointly with Irfan Habib) for the Cambridge Economic History of India. Raychaudhuri died after suffering a series of strokes at his home in Oxford, England on 26 November 2014, aged 88.
He was cremated after 11 days of his death in England.