Notable among them are the two volumes on Suvarnadvipa, and the two volumes on Kambojadesha. These travels helped him later to write no less than five authoritative books on South East Asia.
Then he visited Belgium, Italy, and Germany and came to South-East Asia where he travelled extensively. In 1928 he went abroad, studied in the British Museum of London, Kern Institute of Leiden and Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris. By this time he had become interested in South-East Asian Studies, learnt French and Dutch, and published Champa (1927), a work dealing with the political, social and cultural history of the Vietnam region. His Outline of Ancient Indian History and Civilization (subsequently re-titled Ancient India) was published in 1927. In 1924 he published a small book entitled Early History of Bengal. In July 1921 he joined the newly established Dacca (Dhaka) University as professor of History. In 1919 Calcutta University published Majumdar’s PhD thesis, Corporate Life in Ancient India. In July 1914, he was appointed a lecturer in the History department of Calcutta University. He started his career in 1913 in Dacca Teachers' Training College. In 1912 he was awarded premchand roychand studentship for his dissertation Andhra-Kusana Period. He started historical research under the supervision of MM haraprasad shastri. Son of Haladhar Majumdar and Vidhumukhi he graduated with Honours in History in 1909 from Presidency College and MA from Calcutta University in 1911. Majumdar, Ramesh Chandra (1888-1980) Doyen of Bengali historians, was born on 4 December 1888 at Khandarpara in Faridpur district.
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