Digital museum · Bengal · 1879–1926

Kaviraj Jamini Bhushan Ray

যামিনী ভূষণ রায়

Physician, Sanskrit scholar, educator and institution-builder who helped shape the modern institutional history of Ayurveda in Bengal.

JBRay.org is a digital museum and research archive exploring his life, scholarship, institutions and surviving documentary record.

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Watercolour portrait of Kaviraj Jamini Bhushan Ray — Portrait Jamini Bhushan Ray, early twentieth century

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Three ways into the story

Follow Jamini Bhushan Ray through his life, the institution he built, or the chronology that connects his work with its continuing legacy.

01 · Life

The physician and scholar

From Sanskrit scholarship and Western medical training to Ayurveda, public leadership, authorship and philanthropy.

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Historic view of the Raja Dinendra Street campus of Ashtanga Ayurveda Hospital in 1964

02 · Institution

What he built

The story of the Ayurvedic college and hospital founded in 1916, its permanent campus, public service and later state transition.

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Present-day view of J. B. Roy State Ayurvedic Medical College and Hospital

03 · Timeline

A legacy across time

Move from Ray's formation and scholarship through institution-building, philanthropy and the public legacy that continued after 1926.

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Documentary record

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JBRay.org brings together books, periodicals, institutional records, photographs and archival documents that preserve the material record of Jamini Bhushan Ray and the institutions around him.

Cover of the 1964 J. B. Roy Ayurvedic College and Hospital commemorative booklet — Commemorative booklet · 1964

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Sources for reading

Read digitised publications and documentary texts that illuminate Jamini Bhushan Ray, his institutions and the history surrounding them.

J. B. Roy Ayurvedic College and Hospital Commemorative Booklet, published in 1964 during the institution's transition to state control.

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Opening panel of the Behar Herald report on the Seventh All-India Ayurvedic Conference

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The surviving record

Encounter photographs, correspondence, publications, institutional documents and other surviving objects presented with their historical context.

The Behar Herald, 1 April 1916 — reporting on the Seventh All-India Ayurvedic Conference, over which Ray presided.

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Continuing legacy

A life that continues through its record.

Jamini Bhushan Ray died in 1926, but the institutions he built, the works he published and the documentary traces he left behind continue to illuminate the history of Ayurveda, education and public life in modern India.

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