Partha Sarathi Gupta

He was a brilliant student and topped state matriculation examination in the year 1949 from Ballygunge Government High School.[2] He then joined Presidency College Calcutta and graduated in history by getting highest marks and was given prestigious Eshan scholarship awarded for the highest marks in West Bengal. Fellow students that year included Amartya Sen and Sukhamoy Chakravarty.[3][4] He went to England to continue his higher studies from Queen's College, Oxford University. He graduated in modern history specialising in the English civil war. He worked closely with his teachers like Christopher Hill and Keith Thomas. He became friends with his batchmates Raphael Samuel and Peter Sedgwick. His British late-19th-century British railwaymen's union thesis earned him a Doctorate degree under the supervision of Henry Pelling.

Gupta in the year 1960, joined Burdwan University in History Department briefly before joining Delhi University as a reader. He was teaching economic history before he became a reader in European and British history.

He married Narayani Gupta who taught history at Indraprastha College for Women and joined the Jamia Millia Islamia University in 1986. She was a consultant with Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage. Her research has been on urban history, particularly that of Delhi. She has many books to her credit. She was a founder member of the Conservation Society of Delhi and has been a member of the Delhi Urban Art Commission. She authored books Delhi between Empires 1803-1931, Society, Government and Urban Growth; Delhi Then & Now; and has co-authored Beato's Delhi: 1857 and Beyond. She has been an advisor for Delhi: The Built Heritage, A Listing, Intach, 2000.

Together they have a son Himadri Shikhar Gupta and a daughter Niharika Gupta.

• Himadri Shikhar Gupta, alumnus of prestigious IIT Kanpur and Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPIKG) at Potsdam (Germany) is teaching at Institute of Bioengineering and School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London.[5][6]
• Niharika Gupta is a Rhodes Scholar [7] and alumnus of Delhi University and Balliol College, University of Oxford. She is currently the Director of Research at Sahapedia.[8]