Sarat Kumar Ray

Sarat Kumar Ray (Bengali: শরৎ কুমার রায়) (1876–1946) was a member of the royal family of Dighapatia.

A noted scholar, he was the son of the Raja (King) Pramathanath Ray and lived in the Maharaja's Palace.

Along with historian Ramaprasad Chanda, he co-founded the Varendra Research Museum,[1][2][3][4][5] which Lord Dundas the Governor of Bengal, inaugurated in November 1919.

[3] Ray published his book, Sivaji O Guru Gobinda Singha, in 1908 for which an introduction was written by Rabindranath Tagore.

[6] Ray, along with Ramaprasad Chanda and Akshay Kumar Maitreya, worked to discover and preserve the archeological sites in the Varendra region of Bengal.