Amiya Dev was Professor of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur
University, Kolkata. He has written widely in Bengali and English, on Tagore
and after, on literary interrelation, and on literary culture as such. He has
also edited and co- edited a number of volumes including Science, Literature and Aesthetics, and Tagore and China. He was a Vice- President of the International
Comparative Literature Association and Vice- Chancellor, Vidyasagar University.