Pradip K. Bose—a dedication Subir Sarkar a, T , Santanu Banerjee b a Department of Geological Sciences, Jadavpur University, Kolkata-700 032, India b Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, India Received 17 November 2004; received in revised form 25 November 2004 Like most parts of the world, serious sedimento- logical research in India started only in the 1960s. Prior to that time, very few earth scientists showed much interest in sedimentology. Prof. Pradip K. Bose was one of the few workers who initiated serious scientific study of the sedimentary rocks in India. Pradip Bose was born on January 2, 1942 in Howrah in West Bengal, and obtained his early education during the depression time in a rural school. His tertiary education in Geology was at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and he earned his Ph.D. degree in 1967; he joined Punjab University as a post- doctoral fellow thereafter. He shifted to Jadavpur University as a lecturer in the year 1970 and began his serious research efforts in sedimentology with another great Indian sedimentologist, the late Prof. Sukomal Chanda. In his retirement, Pradip Bose is still very actively associated with the same university. Prof. Bose made significant contributions in resolving major geological problems, based on high- resolution field studies, petrography, elementary geo- chemistry, and fossil evidence, within the domain of sedimentary geology. Pradip has a rare quality of viewing body fossils, trace fossils, and sediment in a broader way, as inseparable parts of a single entity. He has shown remarkable versatility in process-related high-resolution facies analysis of diverse kinds of depositional regimes, with an outstanding ability to deal with the products of widely varied palaeoenvir- onments: tide- and wave-dominated shelf (Bose, 1982; Bose et al., 1988a,b, 1997a; Bose and Chaud- huri, 1990; Chakraborty and Bose, 1990, 1992a), deep doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2005.01.002 T Corresponding author. E-mail address: jugeoss@vsnl.net (S. Sarkar). Sedimentary Geology 176 (2005) 5 – 8 www.elsevier.com/locate/sedgeo