ALTHOUGH A PLAQUE HAS BEEN SET UP BY ” BANGIYA SHAHITYA PARISHAD ” INFRONT OF HIS PATERNAL HOME, NO ONE HAS HEARD OF NOTED SCHOLAR, HISTORIAN , INDOLOGIST, ARCHAEOLOGIST HARAPRASAD SHASTRI IN HIS BIRTHPLACE NAIHATI , A SUBURB OF KOLKATA. EVEN A BRONZE STATUE OF HIM IS WAITING UNVEILING FOR LAST 20 YEARS.
SARAT NATH BHATTACHARYA AKA HARAPRASAD WAS IN TRUE SENSE A SANSKRIT SCHOLAR WHO HAD M.A DEGREE. HE WAS A TEACHER IN CANNING COLLEGE OF LUCKNOW, PRESIDENCY OF CALCUTTA AND SANSKRIT COLLEGE. LATER HE BECAME PRINCIPAL OF SANSKRIT COLLEGE.HARAPRASAD’S MAIN WORKS ARE IN HISTORY / ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD. HE USED TO TRAVEL TO NEPAL AND TIBET IN SEARCH OF OLD SCRIPTURES AND TABLETS. HE DECIPHERED SUCH OLD TABELETS WHICH PROVIDED IMPORTANT INFORMATIONS TO OUR HISTORY. HE ALSO FOUND TWO VERY OLD SCRIPTURES i.e. CHARYA-CHARYO BINISCHAYYA AND RAMCHARITA , AN EPIC IN DUAL LANGUAGES WHICH PROVED BENGALI WAS AN ANCIENT LANGUAGE. HE WROTE MANY BOOKS WHICH ARE STILL VALUABLE TO RESEARCHERS IN HISTORY.
AT PRESENT IN NAIHATI ” THE BANKIM BHAVAN GAVESHANA KENDRA ” IS DOING SOME PRESERVATION WORKS ON HIM . FEW VOLUMES WITH HIS WORKS ARE ALREADY OUT, OTHERS ARE IN PIPELINE. THIS INSTITUTE IS ALSO PRESERVING SOME VERY OLD SCRIPTURES FOUND FROM HIS PATERNAL HOME IN DIGITAL FORMAT. 
