Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri
{{Short description|Indian political scientist (1935–2016)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri
| image = Rai Chowdhuri.jpg
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1935|8|27|df=y}}
| birth_place = Bengal Presidency, British India
| death_date = 2016
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| field = Political Science, International Relations, South Asian Studies
| work_institution = Institute of Commonwealth Studies
University of London
| prizes = Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society
}}
Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRAS}} (27 August 1935 – 2016) was an Indian political scientist, political historian and international relations expert.
Life and career
Chowdhuri was a senior research fellow in international relations at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies,{{cite web|url=http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/current-fellows.html|title=Current Fellows|publisher=Institute of Commonwealth Studies|accessdate=15 January 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110305052508/http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/current-fellows.html|archivedate=5 March 2011}} University of London, United Kingdom, and an Emeritus Professor of Political Science at India's University Grants Commission. Earlier he taught at the universities of Calcutta, Rabindra Bharati, London and Oxford.
Chowdhuri was a prolific writer with primary interests in nuclear issues and South Asian Politics. He was a columnist at Project Syndicate, and Asia Times Online, besides many news dailies across the globe. He was also known for his books [https://www.amazon.com/dp/1932705023 Nuclear Politics] and [http://us.macmillan.com/leftisminindia19171947 Leftism in India] among others.
Chowdhuri scholarship in South Asian Studies was honoured in 2006 with the Fellowship of the Royal Asiatic Society, the UK's highest society in Asian studies.
Chowdhuri died in 2016.{{cite web |title=Late Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri
|url=https://us.sagepub.com/hi/nam/author/late-satyabrata-rai-chowdhuri |website=Sage |access-date=24 January 2025}}
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Category:Indian international relations scholars
Category:Indian political scientists
Category:British political scientists
Category:Academic staff of the University of Calcutta
Category:Academics of the University of Oxford
Category:Academics of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London
Category:Fellows of the Royal Asiatic Society