NRI professor at Oxford to be honoured in Kolkata

Professor of Linguistics at Oxford University, Aditi Lahiri, will receive the Professor Sukumar Sen memorial gold medal from the Asiatic Society at an event in Kolkata on Monday, the university announced today.

Professor of Linguistics at Oxford University, Aditi Lahiri, will receive the Professor Sukumar Sen memorial Gold Medal from the Asiatic Society at an event in Kolkata on Monday, the university announced on Friday.

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Lahiri, who is the first chair of the newly-formed Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at Oxford, is being honoured for her 'significant contribution' in the field of Philology, Linguistics, and Literature.

The gold medal will be handed over by the Governor of West Bengal, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, at the Annual General Meeting of the Asiatic Society.

Lahiri is the 15th recipient of the award, the first from Oxford, and the first woman to receive the medal, which is named after Professor Sukumar Sen, the former Khaira Professor of Linguistics, and a famous Philologist.

Previous winners of the medal include internationally renowned philologists and linguists such as Sir Harold Bailey, Professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge University, and Professor Manfred Mayrhofer, Professor of Indo-Germanic Philology, Vienna.

"I am delighted to be receiving this medal. The award is a testament to the leading role that Oxford has historically played in the study of Indo-European linguistics and Comparative Philology," Lahiri said.