Dr. Shri Jay Kant Mishra

is an Internationally renowned author, scholar and language critic. Hewas born in a family of reputed Sanskrit scholars of Mithila, then residing at Varanasi, on November 20th. 1922. He is the son of Mahamahopadhyaya Dr. Umesha Mishra and Grandson of Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Jayadev Mishra.
After receiving his M.A. degree in 1943 Dr. Sri Mishra was offered a lectureship in the Department of English studies and Modern European Languages at Allahabad University. He retired as Professor and Head of the Department in1983. He was selected as Visiting Fellow in English at Sagar University from 1985 to 1988. He was called upon to the All India Board for Research Awards in Humanities in 1986 at Mysore. He was also the Dean, Faculty of Languages and Social Sciences, Chitrakoot Gramodaya Visvavidyalaya from 1992 to 1994.
He has published many works, including books and critical essays. His magnum opus is "Brihat Maithili Sabdakosa" of which two volumes have come out of Simla and remaining volumes are in the course of publication. Dr. Sri Mishra works unceasingly and continues to edit the "Maithili Samachar", a fortnightly bulletin of the All India Maithili Sahitya Samiti that he has edited for the past 50 years.
Dr. Sri Mishra - A Chronology
1943- to date. President, All India Maithili Sahitya Samiti, Allahabad. 1948 Member, Council of All India Oriental Conference. 1963-82 Member, Advisory Board and General Council of Sahitya Akademi. 1967-71 Secretary, G. N. Jha Research Institute, Allahabad. 1971-74 Founder-Secretary, Dr. Ishwari Pd. Institute of History, Allahabad. 1973-74 Prabandha Mantri & Sangrahalaya Mantri, Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, Allahabad. 1977 President, Diamond Jubilee Session of Asam Sahitya Sabha, Jorhat. 1984-89 Member, Executive Board of Maithili Akademi, Patna. 1993 Inaugurated 1st. International Maithili Conference, Ranchi. 1995-99 Editor, Maithili Section of "Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature" and "Modern/ Medieval Indian Literature".
AWARDS 1967 Samman Patra by Akhil Bhartiya Maithili Sammelan, Bombay. 1989 Gaurinath Memorial Lectures. 1990 Tamra Patra by Chetna Samiti, Patna. 1995 Samman Patra by Mithila Sanskritik Sangam, Prayag. 1999 Samman Patra by Vidyapati Samiti, Dhanbad.
IMPORTANT NEWS!! maithilsabha would like to congratulate Dr. Sri J. K. Mishra on his success in finally bringing to realisation what seemed to be an impossibility. After many years of struggle, legal and political battles at the highest levels, Dr. Sri Mishra has finally achieved the reinstatement of the ancient Maithili language in all schools and educational institutions within the state of Bihar.