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  Jadunath Sarkar was an eminent Indian historian especially of Mughal Dynasty. He wrote several books on Aurangzeb. He was born on 10th December, 1870 in Natore, Bengal to Rajkumar Sarkar, the local   Zamindar   on 10 December 1870. [2]   In 1891, he graduated in English from   Presidency College, Calcutta . [2]   In 1892, he topped the   Master of Arts examination , in English at   Calcutta University   and in 1897, he received the   Premchand-Roychand Scholarship . [2] In 1893, he was inducted as a faculty of English literature at Ripon College,  Calcutta  (later renamed  Surendranath College ).In 1898, he was appointed at  Presidency College, Calcutta  after getting selected in the  Provincial Education Services . [2]  In between, from 1917 to 1919, he taught Modern Indian History in  Benaras Hindu University  and from 1919–1923, both English and History, at  Ravenshaw College ,  Cuttack .  In  1923, he became an honorary member of the  Royal Asiatic Society  of London. In August 1