Devendra Prasad Gupta

Hailing and raised from a family of Vaidhraj commonly termed as olden Ayurvedic physicians, he dynamically partook in Indian freedom movements of Civil Disobedience 1942{{cite web|title=C. D. Movement 1942 Participation Testimony (December 19, 1952)|date=19 December 1952|url=https://archive.org/details/C.D.Movement1942ParticipationTestimony|publisher= Government of Bihar Political Department Special Section|accessdate=6 June 2014|ref=Internet Archive}} as a result of which his studies were discontinued for years. At the age of eleven years he became a member of Congress Seva Dal from 1944 to 1947.{{cite news|title=Interview by Rudra Biswas|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=10 October 1997|page=1|quote=Revival Calls for fresh talents.}} During this period he had been trained as a volunteer and subsequently turned out to be the Nayak/comrade of one unit.{{cite web|title=Devendra Prasad Gupta, Vice Chancellor, Ranchi University Testimony From Congress Seva Dal|date=11 February 1955|url=https://archive.org/details/Prof.Dr.DevendraPrasadGuptaViceChancellorRanchiUniversityTestimonyFromCongressSevaDal|publisher=Congress Seva Dal|accessdate=6 June 2014|ref=Internet Archive}}

He confronted bullets and suffered from gangrenous wound on the lower part of the left leg with bone exposed which temporarily incapacitated him for two months. The wound being stated was caused by the three bullets fired by British soldiers under their contingent military operation at Maheshkhunt, district of Monghyr in August 1942.{{cite web|title=Prof. (Dr.) Devendra Prasad Gupta, Vice Chancellor, Ranchi University Testimony From Capt. Surapati Ghosh, IMS|date=15 October 1950|url=https://archive.org/details/Prof.Dr.DevendraPrasadGuptaViceChancellorRanchiUniversityTestimonyFromCapt.SurapatiGhoshIMS|publisher= Capt. Surapati Ghosh, IMS|accessdate=6 June 2014|ref=Internet Archive}} He was even incarcerated and held as one of the captives led by seizure for a year.

On 24 August 1942 his grandfather Chulhai Sah faced the bullet of a British soldier in a raid at his house for extirpating railway track of Maheshkhunt station and met a martyr death.{{cite news|first=Prakash|last=Chandrayan|title=बिहार का रक्तरंजित विद्रोह-4: हर जगह खूनी संघर्ष और शहादते|work=Prabhat Khabar|date=6 December 1992}} But in the midst of struggle and persistent hardship of all fellow-Indians they succeeded.

A freedom fighter{{cite news|title=INTERVIEW OF THE FORTNIGHT|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=10 October 1997|page=1|quote=MISSION POSSIBLE: Ranchi University vice-chancellor D.P.Gupta,'Revival Calls for fresh talents'.}} who had to flee his hometown to avoid arrest for hoisting the Tricolour in his school during the Quit India Movement, he joined Ranchi University after a brief stint at the Patna University and University of London.{{cite news|title=MISSION POSSIBLE: Ranchi University vice-chancellor D.P.Gupta,'Revival Calls for fresh talents'.|url=https://archive.org/details/Prof.Dr.DevendraPrasadGuptaViceChancellorRanchiUniversityTheTelegraphCalcuttaInterview|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=10 October 1997}}

File:Prof.Devendra Prasad Gupta at 3rd International Verticillium Symposium, University of Bari, Italy 1981.jpgGupta was former Vice-Chancellor{{cite news|title=आरयू स्टूडेंट्स यूनियन इलेक्शन पर आज हो सकता फैसला|url=http://inextlive.jagran.com/meeting-for-ru-students-union-election-today-175198|accessdate=5 January 2018|work=Dainik Jagran inextlive|date=3 January 2018}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20111011180047/http://ranchiuniversity.org.in/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=25 Tenure period of Officials, R.U. Administration]{{cite magazine|title=Squabble at Ranchi University takes a communal turn|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/squabble-at-ranchi-university-takes-communal-turn/1/275142.html|magazine=India Today|date=10 November 1997}} of Ranchi University.{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1051107/asp/jharkhand/story_5438709.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207183438/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1051107/asp/jharkhand/story_5438709.asp|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 December 2013|title=Clamour for IAS as varsity heads|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=7 November 2005}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20120509192717/http://ranchiuniversity.org.in/university/university-a/list-of-vice-chancellors.html List of former Vice Chancellors of Ranchi University] He strived for upliftment of local tribes and backward class. On his advice there was establishment of backward class student union.{{cite news|title=पूर्व कुलपति के निधन पर शोकसभा|url=http://epaper.prabhatkhabar.com/1486347/RANCHI-City/city#page/8|accessdate=11 January 2018|work=Prabhat Khabar|date=31 December 2017}} He commenced his academic career as demonstrator (August 1953 – August 1956) and went up to post graduate lecturer (September 1956 – March 1970), reader (April 1970 – January 1984), university professor (February 1984 till death), principal{{Cite web |url=http://kocgumla.org/en/college/college-administration/ex-principals.html |title=KOC Gumla College administration Ex-Principals |access-date=17 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207012059/http://kocgumla.org/en/college/college-administration/ex-principals.html |archive-date=7 December 2013 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://kocgumla.org/en/14-sample-data-articles.html?start=18 |title=Principals of Yesteryears from 60's to till date |access-date=17 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207012055/http://kocgumla.org/en/14-sample-data-articles.html?start=18 |archive-date=7 December 2013 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|last1=Gupta |first1=D.P. |title=Principals of yesteryears |url=http://kocgumla.org/en/college/college-administration/ex-principals.html |publisher=KOC |accessdate=7 December 2013 |ref=Internet Archive |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207012059/http://kocgumla.org/en/college/college-administration/ex-principals.html |archivedate=7 December 2013 }} (June 1983 – January 1986) under Indian University.{{cite news|title=Payback time for ex-VC|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1031221/asp/jharkhand/story_2701966.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060518232950/http://telegraphindia.com/1031221/asp/jharkhand/story_2701966.asp|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 May 2006|accessdate=11 January 2018|work=The Telegraph|date=21 December 2003}} Gupta along with two professors co-founded and instituted special branch of Microbiology and Plant Pathology in Ranchi University, PG Department of Botany, currently operating under Institute of Basic and Applied Sciences.{{cite web|last=University|first=Ranchi|title=XXXIX All India Conference of The Indian Botanical Society & National Symposium on "New approaches and recent challenges in Botany|url =http://www.indianlichenology.com/CRM/UploadedFile/IBS%202016%20FINAL%20BROCHURE.pdf|access-date=1 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018212921/http://www.indianlichenology.com/CRM/UploadedFile/IBS%202016%20FINAL%20BROCHURE.pdf|archive-date=18 October 2016}}

He was associated with many International conventions such as First International Congress of Plant Pathology,{{Citation needed|date=December 2019|reason=removed citation to predatory publisher content}} held in Imperial College London, International Conference of Phytochemical Society, held in University of Hull, Scarborough, England and many others. He was one of the contributors from India who took part in the deliberation of the 3rd International Symposium[https://archive.org/details/3rdINTERNATIONALVERTICILlIUMSYMPOSIUMUniversityOfBariItaly1981 3rd INTERNATIONAL VERTICILLIUM SYMPOSIUM, University of Bari, Italy 1981 (28 August 1981)] on verticillium held in August 1981 in Bari, Italy.{{cite journal|title=Selected Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 3rd International Verticillium Symposium|journal=Phytopathologia Mediterranea|date=December 1984|volume=23|page=204|jstor=42684710|ref=JSTOR|publisher=Firenze University Press|issn=1593-2095|last1=Ben-Yephet|first1=Y.|last2=Siti|first2=E.|last3=Frank|first3=Z.|last4=Bishop|first4=C. D.|last5=Cooper|first5=R. M.|last6=Boisot|first6=T.|last7=Dubouchet|first7=J.|last8=Peresse|first8=M.|last9=Boisson|first9=C.|last10=Lahlou|first10=H.|last11=Busch|first11=L. V.|last12=Smith|first12=E. A.|last13=Robb|first13=J.|last14=Christias|first14=C.|last15=Tjamos|first15=E.|last16=Zioudrou|first16=C.|last17=Kornaros|first17=E.|last18=Cirulli|first18=M.|last19=Ciccarese|first19=F.|last20=Coosemans|first20=J.|last21=Davis|first21=J. R.|last22=Pavek|first22=J. J.|last23=Corsini|first23=D. L.|last24=Dube|first24=H. C.|last25=Mathur|first25=S.|last26=Bordia|first26=S.|last27=Ebbels|first27=D. L.|last28=Francis|first28=A.|last29=Evans|first29=G.|last30=Kaldor|first30=J.|issue=2/3|display-authors=29}}

He was ex-councillor of Indian Phytopathological Society, New Delhi{{cite web|last=Society|first=Indian Phytopathological|title=Past Zonal Presidents and Councillors (1948 onwards)|url =http://ipsdis.org/gallery/view/35001|access-date=20 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180520115714/http://ipsdis.org/gallery/view/35001|archive-date=20 May 2018}} and former member of Bihar Intermediate Education Council, India.{{cite news|title=Sneak preview : The More Precise the Thought, the Bigger the Truth|work=Daily Excelsior|date=8 January 1995|page=5}}

After retirement he served DPG-VeC. Genetics & Life Science, Nicaragua as a President and Bethany University, Scotts Valley, California, U.S. with other research universities/institutions as an academician and researcher.{{cite magazine |last= |first= |date=20 March 2018 |title= OBITUARIES - DEVENDRA GUPTA, Pg-39|url=https://intouch.kcl.ac.uk/previous-editions/ |url-status= |magazine=IN TOUCH, Spring/Summer 2018 |location= |publisher=King's College London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826140336/https://www.kcl.ac.uk/alumni/assets/intouch-2018-spring-summer.pdf|archive-date=26 August 2022|access-date= 8 September 2022}} {{cite magazine |last= |first= |date=30 June 2023 |title= OBITUARIES - Prof. Devandra Prasad Gupta QEC Biology PhD 1969, Pg-58|url=https://qeca.org.uk/envoy/#envoy-2023/58/ |url-status= |magazine=QE(K)A ENVOY 2023 |location= |publisher=Queen Elizabeth College |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230912085819/https://qeca.org.uk/envoy/#envoy-2023/58/|archive-date=12 September 2023|access-date=17 December 2023}}

Gupta died{{cite news|title=Tribute to Dr.Devendra Prasad Gupta|url=https://www.livehindustan.com/jharkhand/ranchi/story-tribute-to-dr-dp-gupta-1728286.html|accessdate=5 January 2018|work=Hindustan Times|date=3 January 2018}} due to pneumonia with sepsis at his residence in Ranchi on 26 December 2017. He was treated at Medanta hospital for femur fracture and had a prolonged stay in the ICU and Suite for his fluid, electrolyte, blood sugar and BP management.{{cite news|title=पूर्व कुलपति डॉ डीपी गुप्ता का निधन|url=https://www.prabhatkhabar.com/news/ranchi/story/1103995.html|accessdate=5 January 2018|work=Prabhat Khabar|date=27 December 2017}} After explained prognosis he was taken up for surgical intervention. He responded well and was discharged in stable condition on 6 November 2017.

He was again re-admitted with complaint of poor oral intake and oral sensorium and was finally diagnosed with sepsis and pneumonia. He improved and responded well to the treatment, finally was discharged in a healthy state on 20 December 2017. On 26 December 2017 his condition deteriorated and he finally died{{cite news|title=रांची विवि के शिक्षकों ने दि श्रद्धांजलि|url=http://epaper.prabhatkhabar.com/1489921/RANCHI-City/city#page/6/1|accessdate=11 January 2018|work=Prabhat Khabar|date=3 January 2018}} in a peaceful state,{{cite news|title=Ex-Vice Chancellor Dr.D.P. Gupta passed away|url=http://epaper.prabhatkhabar.com/1482015/RANCHI-City/city#page/5|accessdate=1 January 2018|work=Prabhat Khabar|date=27 December 2017}} seven days before his 85th birthday.

Devendra Memorial Science Fellowship (DMSF) was instituted by DPG-VeC. Genetics & Life Science, Nicaragua to commemorate his contribution in the field of biology.{{cite web|last=G&Ls.|first=DPG-VeC. |title=Responsabilidad Social Corporativa|url =https://dpgvec.com/csr|access-date=26 December 2018}}

• {{cite journal |doi=10.1016/S0007-1536(72)80067-6 |title=Mechanism of vascular wilting induced by Verticillium albo-atrum |year=1972 |last1=Heale |first1=J.B. |last2=Gupta |first2=D.P. |publisher=Elsevier |journal=Transactions of the British Mycological Society |volume=58 |page=19 |location=UK}}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1099/00221287-63-2-175 |title=The Utilization of Cellobiose by Verticillium albo-atrum |year=1970 |last1=Heale |first1=J. B. |last2=Gupta |first2=D. P. |publisher=Society for General Microbiology |journal=Journal of General Microbiology |volume=63 |issue=2 |pages=175–81 |pmid=5534500 |location=UK|doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1099/00221287-63-2-163 |title=Induction of Cellulase (Cx) in Verticillium albo-atrum |year=1970 |last1=Gupta |first1=D. P. |last2=Heale |first2=J. B. |publisher=Society for General Microbiology |journal=Journal of General Microbiology |volume=63 |issue=2 |pages=163–73 |pmid=5534499 |location=UK|doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |pmid=5534500 |year=1970 |last1=Heale |first1=JB |last2=Gupta |first2=DP |publisher=Society for General Microbiology |title=The utilization of cellobiose by Verticillium albo-atrum |volume=63 |issue=2 |pages=175–81 |journal=Journal of General Microbiology |doi=10.1099/00221287-63-2-175 |location=UK|doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal|last1=Gupta|first1=D. P.|publisher=Mediterranean Phytopathological Union|title=Histological Changes During the Verticillium Wilting Syndrome in Susceptible and Tolerant Lucerne Cultivars|journal=Phytopathologia Mediterranea|year=1984|volume=23|issue=2–3|page=204|jstor=42684710|url=http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=IT8660902|location=Italy|series= Firenze University Press}}
• {{cite journal|last1=Gupta|first1=D.P. |title=Endopolygalacturonase stimulation in Verticullium albo--atrum. [Wilt, alfalfa]|journal=Indian Phytopathology|year=1973|volume=XXVI|issue=1|pages=90–106|url=http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=US201302219419 |quote=National Agricultural Library, Beltsville.}}
• {{cite journal|last1=Gupta|first1=D. P. |title=A Disc Electrophoretic study of the protein of Susceptible, Tolerant and Resistant lucerne with reference to Verticillium wilt|journal=Indian Phytopathology|year=1974|volume=XXVII|issue=4|pages=542–548|url=http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=IN19760077605|quote=Indian Council of Agricultural Research.}}
• {{cite journal|last1=Gupta|first1=D. P. |title=A note on endo-Polygalacturonase (endo PG) production by Ozonium taxanum Neel & Waste var. parasiticum Thilm|journal=Indian Phytopathology|year=1975|volume=XXVIII|issue=4|pages=543–545|url=http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=US201302524022|quote=National Agricultural Library, Washington, D.C.}}
• {{cite journal|last1=Gupta|first1=D. P.|title=Purification of in vitro pectolytic enzymes secreted by Verticillium albo-atrum|journal=Indian Phytopathology|year=1977|volume=XXX|issue=3|pages=315–319|url=http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=IN19790410338|quote=Indian Council of Agricultural Research.}}
• {{cite journal|last1=Gupta|first1=D.P.|title=Host relation in Alternaria early blight of potato;Germination of spore|journal=Journal of Bihar Botanical Society|date=1972|volume=1|issue=1–2|pages=22–26}}
• {{cite journal|last1=Gupta|first1=D.P.|title=Photodynamic action on spore and pigment production with reference to speciation in Biotypes of V.ablo-atrum and V.dahliae|journal=Journal of Bihar Botanical Society|date=1973|volume=2|issue=1–2|pages=39–44}}
• {{cite journal|last1=Gupta|first1=D.P.|title=The Effect of ultraviolet radiation on spore and pigment production in Biotypes of V.albo-atrum and V.dahliae|journal=Journal of Bihar Botanical Society|date=1974|volume=3|issue=1–2|pages=26–30}}
• {{cite journal|last1=Gupta|first1=D.P.|title=Host relation in Alternaria early blight of potato;Role of sugars|journal=Journal of Ranchi University|date=1972|volume=VIII|pages=264–270}}
• {{cite journal|last1=Gupta|first1=D.P.|title=In vitro pectic enzyme production by Verticillium albo-atrum|journal=Botanisk Tidsskrift|date=1978|volume=112|issue=3–4|pages=16–18|publisher=Danish Botanical Society}}
• {{cite journal|last1=Gupta|first1=D.P.|title=Secretion of Pectic enzymes by Alternaria Solani|journal=The Botanical Magazine, Tokyo|date=1970|volume=83|issue=8–11|page=15|publisher=The Botanical Society of Japan}}
• {{cite book|last1=GUPTA|first1=DR. D. P.|title=An Introduction to Genetics|date=1969–70|url=http://rslibrary.in/opac/auth-search.aspx|accessdate=23 February 2018}}
• {{cite journal|last1=Gupta|first1=D.P.|title=Secretion of pectic enzymes by Alternaria triticina|journal=Annales de Phytopathologie|date=1978|volume=9|issue=1|pages=8–9|publisher=Institut national de la recherche agronomique}}
• {{cite conference |first=D.P. |last=Gupta |title=Variation in Strains and Species of Verticillium|publisher=Deutsche Phytomedizinische Gesellschaft e.V.|conference=International Verticillium Symposium |edition=3rd |pages=34 |year=1981 |location=Bari, Italy |url=https://archive.org/details/3rdINTERNATIONALVERTICILlIUMSYMPOSIUMUniversityOfBariItaly1981}}
• {{cite conference |first=D.P. |last=Gupta |title=Histological Changes During the Verticillium Wilting Syndrome in Susceptible and Tolerant Lucerne Cultivars|publisher=Deutsche Phytomedizinische Gesellschaft e.V.|conference=International Verticillium Symposium |edition=3rd |pages=35 |year=1981 |location=Bari, Italy |url=https://archive.org/details/3rdINTERNATIONALVERTICILlIUMSYMPOSIUMUniversityOfBariItaly1981}}
• {{cite book|last1=Gupta|first1=D. P.|title=Taxonomy of angiosperms|date=1968|publisher=Asian Pub.|url=http://nationallibrary.gov.in/showdetails.php?id=311317|accessdate=23 February 2018}}
• {{cite thesis|last1=Prasad Gupta|first1=Devendra|title=Studies on the Host Parasite Relationship in the Verticillium Wilt Disease of Lucerne|type=PhD|date=1970|publisher=Diss. King's College London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l6KgXwAACAAJ|oclc=731222588}}

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• [https://archive.org/details/Prof.Dr.DevendraPrasadGuptaViceChancellorRanchiUniversityTestimonyFromM.L.A.Patna D.P. Gupta, Testimony From M. L. A., Patna (7 May 1951)]
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