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On the initiative of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, he took up the mantle of editing a multi-volume tome on Indian History. After extensive travels to Southeast Asia and research, he wrote detailed histories of Champa (1927), Suvarnadvipa (1929) and Kambuja Desa. He started his research on ancient India.
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He was elected the General President of the Indian History Congress and also became the Vice President of the International Commission set up by the UNESCO for the history of mankind. From 1950, he was Principal of the College of Indology, Benares Hindu University. Then he became the Vice Chancellor of that University, for five years from 1937 to 1942. Between 19 he was Provost of Jagannath Hall. He also served, until he became its Vice Chancellor, as the Head of the Department of History as well as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts. In 1921 he joined the newly established University of Dacca as Professor of History. He got his doctorate for his thesis "Corporate Life in Ancient India". Since 1914, he spent seven years as a professor of history at the University of Calcutta. He started his teaching career as a Lecturer at Dacca Government Training College. Graduating in B.A.(Honours) in 1909 and MA from Calcutta University in 1911, he won the Premchand Roychand scholarship from the University of Calcutta for his research work in 1913. with first class scholarship from Ripon College (now Surendranath College) and joined Presidency College, Calcutta. In 1905, he passed his Entrance Examination from Ravenshaw College, Cuttack. 4 Views on the Indian independence movementīorn at Khandarpara, in Faridpur District (now in Bangladesh) on 4 December 1888, to Haladhar Majumdar and Bidhumukhi, Majumdar passed his childhood in poverty.