Dr. Bidhan Chandra Ray : A Jewel of India

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. The ancestors of Dr. Bidhan Chandra Ray. 2. Calcutta medical college and Bidhan Chandra. 3. Bidhan Chandra and colonel Lukis. 4. Some interesting episodes during Bidhan\'s practical life in the medical college. 5. The struggle of Bidhan Chandra in England. 6. The beginning of Dr. Ray at Calcutta. 7. Dr. Ray as a physician. 8. Some incidents revealing the skill of Bidhan Chandra as a practising physician. 9. The Campbell medical school of yesterday and Nil Ratan Sircar medical college of today and Dr. Bidhan Chandra Ray. 10. The alliance of Deshbandhu Chittaranjan with Dr. Ray. 11. Subhas Chandra and Bidhan Chandra. 12. Dr. Ray\'s entry into politics. 13. Carmichael medical college silver jubilee. 14. Bidhan Chandra and Surendra Nath Banerjee. 15. Birth of Indian medical association, medical council of India and the journal of the Indian medical association-the roles of Dr. B.C. Ray. 16. Dr. Ray\'s performances to quell the communal riots in Calcutta of 1946. 17. Some important activities of Dr. Ray as the chief minister of West Bengal. 18. Dr. Ray and the later chief ministers of West Bengal. 19. Dr. Bidhan Chandra and the birth of Neurosurgery in Calcutta. 20. Activities in the university. 21. Sri Jyoti Basu and Dr. Ray. 22. Institutions, roads etc. names after Bidhan Chandra. 23. The activities of Dr. Ray for the future. 24. Dr. Ray\'s ideas later came into being . 25. European Jewish doctors in Calcutta, during Dr. Ray\'s time. 26. The house where Dr. Ray and other Indian freedom lovers used to meet in Vienna and his doctor friends of Vienna. 27. The Austrian doctor friends of Dr. Ray. 28. Bidhan Chandra in lighter veins. 29. Dr. Ray the child at heart. Appendix: some letters relating to Dr. Ray. Sources of information.

"The life and achievements of Dr. Bidhan Chandra Ray, the architect of modern West Bengal, are not much known to the younger generation. Even some events are not known to most of us. Dr. Asoke Kumar Bagchi. A noted neurologist, who had personal acquaintance with Dr. Ray, has written this monograph on Dr. Ray based on information gathered through different sources. He has also arranged to provide a few photographs, some of them are rare.

This monograph would help in introducing Dr. Ray as a man, an eminent physician, an architect of modern West Bengal and a visionary to the younger generation." (jacket)