[3] Considered by many as an authority on Maratha history, he translated The Maharashta Purana, an 18th-century Bengali text written by Gangaram[4] into English, Edward C. Dimock, a known Indologist, being his co-translator.
[7] The Last Peshwa and the English Commissioners, 1818-1851[8] and Shah Alam II and His Court are some of his other notable works.
[9] The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 1975, for his contributions to Literature.
[10] Pratul Chandra Gupta was born in the Teota Rajbari (the home of his mother's family) in 1910.
He married Supriya Roy, and had two children, Avijit (1942-2023) and Ishani (born 1949).