Subrata Kumar Acharya is a former Professor and Head in the Department of History, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, Odisha. He was a Fellow (1996-98) at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. At present he is working as a Senior Fellow (2023-35) of ICSSR, New Delhi. He is also the Chairman of the Epigraphical Society of India, Mysore. He was the General President of Place Names Society of India (2010), of Epigraphical Society of India (2023) and of Odisha History Congress (2025). His area of research is epigraphy and palaeography. He has published seven books and more than one hundred articles in journals of national and international repute. His works include Numerals in Orissan Inscriptions (Shimla, 2002), Palaeography of Orissa (Delhi, 2005), Copper Plate Inscriptions of Orissa, A Descriptive Catalogue (Delhi, 2014), Inscriptions of the Minor Ruling Dynasties of Odisha (Delhi, 2022) and A Corpus of Oriya Inscriptions (Delhi, 2024).