Akshay Kumar Maitreya (Bengali: অক্ষয় কুমার মৈত্রেয়; 1 March 1861–10 February 1930[1]) was an Indian historian and social worker from Bengal.

He was a friend of Rabindranath Tagore, but famously engaged with him in an argument about whether history based fiction should necessarily represent historical facts correctly.

[citation needed] Maitreya was instrumental in creating the Varendra Research Museum, Rajshahi.

He was also credited for disproving the Black Hole of Calcutta theory used by the colonial British to discredit Siraj Ud Daulah in a seminar organized by the Calcutta Historical Society on 24 March 1916.

It consists the Sanskrit texts (along with their translations in Bengali) of a number of stone and copper-plate inscriptions issued by the Pala emperors.