About Pramod Chandra
Lived 1930 – 2016 (aged 85). Pramod Chandra was an Indian art historian and educator.
Pramod Chandra (November 20, 1930 – February 19, 2016) was an Indian-born American art historian, curator and the George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art at Harvard University from 1980 until 2004. In 1985, Chandra curated the exhibition The Sculpture of India: 3000BC-1300AD at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Biography Chandra was born in Varanasi, India, and attended Elphinstone College in Mumbai. His father was the museum curator and Indologist, Moti Chandra.
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American art historian
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Pramod Chandra was born on 20 November 1930 in Varanasi.
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Pramod Chandra died on 19 February 2016.
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Pramod Chandra was an art historian and educator.
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