B. Ch. Chhabra
Bahadur Chand Chhabra, also known as B. Ch. Chhabra, was an Indian Sanskritist and epigraphist who served as the Assistant and Joint Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India.
Early life and education
Chhabra was born at Kohat near Peshawar in the then North-West Frontier Province of British India on 3 April 1908. Chhabra graduated from the Punjab University, Lahore. He earned his doctorate from the State University of Leiden in 1934. In the early 1930s, he joined the Archaeological Survey of India as an epigraphist under J. Ph. Vogel. He was married to Sushila Batra, with whom he had a son, Vinny, and two daughters.Career at ASI
Chhabra succeeded Vogel as the Chief Epigraphist in 1935 and served until 1953. In 1953, he became the Assistant Director General and then, the Joint Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India. Chhabra retired from the ASI in 1966.Works
- . First published in 1908.
- . National Archives of India: 1961.
- . Delhi: Manager of Publications.
- Chhabra, Bahadur Chand; Goyala, Śrīrāma; Agrawala, Prithvi Kumar; Chhabra, B. Ch, eds.. Reappraising Gupta history for S.R. Goyal. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan..
- . With Jean Philippe Vogel. Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India.Facets of Aryan culture. Delhi: Sundeep Prakashan..Findings in Indian archaeology. Delhi: Sundeep Prakashan..
- . Delhi: Sahitya Akademi.
- . 1934.
- . Delhi: National Museum of India.
- . With Bernard Joesph. Delhi: Ashoka Maurya and Pallava Historical Trust.
- . With G. S. Gai, D.R. Bhandarkar, John Faithfull Fleet. Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India.
- . With S Sankaranarayana. Delhi: Bhāratīya Jñānapīṭha Prakāśana.
- Ajanta: the colour and monochrome reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes based on photography. With John Allan, Laurence Binyon, Ghulam Yazdani, N. P. Chakravarti.