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Umakant Premanand Shah
Born20 March 1915
Baroda
DiedNovember 1988
NationalityIndian
Occupation(s)author, scholar
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Umakant Premanand Shah was a scholar from India.

Life

Umakant was born in Baroda on 20 March 1915.[1] He completed his doctoral thesis on 'Elements of Jaina Art'.[1] He became the deputy director of Oriental Institute, Baroda in 1954.[1] He became the head of Ramayana Project at the institute in 1965.[1]

Shah died in November 1988.[1]

Works

Umakant P Shah is credited with 62 works in 147 publications in 2 languages and 951 library holdings.[2]

His works on Jainism includes "Jaina-rūpa-maṇḍana: Jaina iconography".[3]

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d e Vyas 1995, p. 1.
  2. ^ "Shah, Umakant Premanand", WorldCat
  3. ^ Umakant P. Shah 1987.

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