About Umakant Premanand Shah
Lived 1915 – 1988 (aged 72–73). Umakant Premanand Shah was an Indian writer, museologist and art historian.
Umakant Premanand Shah was a scholar from India.
Life Umakant was born in Baroda on 20 March 1915. He completed his doctoral thesis on 'Elements of Jaina Art'. He became the deputy director of Oriental Institute, Baroda in 1954. He became the head of Ramayana Project at the institute in 1965.
Shah died in November 1988.
Works Umakant P Shah is credited with 62 works in 147 publications in 2 languages and 951 library holdings.
His works on Jainism includes "Jaina-rūpa-maṇḍana: Jaina iconography".
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Indian writer (1915–1988)
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Umakant Premanand Shah was born on 20 March 1915 in Vadodara.
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Umakant Premanand Shah died in 1988.
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Umakant Premanand Shah was a writer, museologist and art historian.
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Umakant Premanand Shah was Indian.
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