Probal Dasgupta

Probal Dasgupta speaking at an open house of the central office of the Universala Esperanto-Asocio, spring 2008

Probal Dasgupta (born 19 September 1953, Kolkata, India) is the current (2010–2013) president of the Universala Esperanto-Asocio (World Esperanto Association).

Dasgupta obtained his PhD from New York University (1980; thesis title: Questions and Relative and Complement Clauses in a Bangla Grammar) and became professor for applied linguistics at University of Hyderabad in 1989.

Since 2004 he is an honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America.

Works (selection)

• Degree words in Esperanto and categories in universal grammar. In: Klaus Schubert: Interlinguistics: aspects of the science of planned languages, 1989 pp. 231–247
• Towards a dialogue between the sociolinguistic sciences and Esperanto culture. Pune 1987
• The otherness of English: India's auntie tongue syndrome: New Delhi. Thousand Oaks / London: Sage 1993.
• Explorations in Indian Sociolinguistics, Rajendra Singh, Probal Dasgupta, Jayant K. Lele. New Delhi: Sage 1995.
• After Etymology, 2000
• Dasgupta, Probal (2011). Logxi en homaj lingvoj: la substancisma perspektivo. New York: Mondial. ISBN 978-1595692146. 
• Dasgupta, Probal (2012). Inhabiting Human Languages: the Substantivist Visualization. New Delhi: Samskriti and Indian Council of Philosophical Research. pp. xviii + 148. ISBN 978-81-87374-70-1. 

Translations from Bengali

• Manashi DasGupta: Dormanta hejmaro, Antwerp: Flandra Esperanto-Ligo 2006
• Manashi DasGupta: Mi juna, Rotterdam: Esperantaj Kajeroj 1989
• Rabindranath Tagore: Primico, København: TK 1977
• Upendronath Gangopaddhae: Klera edzino, Pisa: Edistudio 1994

External links

• raporto.info
• LiberaFolio.org

Universal Esperanto Association
Preceded by Renato Corsetti	President 2007–2010	Succeeded by Undetermined