Dr. Sachi G. Dastidar is a Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the State University of New York, Old Westbury. He has also taught in Kazakhstan, Ireland, India, Florida State and Alabama A&M University. He was elected to a NYC School Board. He has authored over 25 books and Journals, and has written over 150 articles. He was born in India to Hindu refugee parents who fled their home of 500 years after a pogrom. Since finding their ancestral home he established Probini Foundation which educates poor and orphaned children in 33 schools in Bangladesh and India; and later established Indian Subcontinent Partition Documentation Project. One of his first books on Partition of India, Ai Bangla Oi Bangla (This Bengal that Bengal, 1991) was written about in almost all the papers and journals in Indian Bengal and in Bangladesh, with the largest-circulation Indian newspaper reviewing it twice. His Empire's Last Casualty: Indian Subcontinent's Vanishing Hindu and Other Minorities, Firma KLM Publishers, India, was quoted in US Congress.His has received two Senior Fulbright Awards, honors from residents of Mahilara, Madaripur and Uzirpur villages (Bangladesh), Assam Buddhist Vihar (India), from Kazakhstan Institute. In Uzirpur, Bangladesh a new "Dastidar Sanskrit College Building" was dedicated in his honor, and a Marble bust was unveiled in Malikanda, Bangladesh.