Pandurang Vaman Kane
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1880 – 1972
Who was Pandurang Vaman Kane?
Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane was a notable Indologist and Sanskrit scholar. He received India's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna in 1963. He was born in a conservative Chitpavan Brahmin family in the Ratnagiri district in Maharashtra, India. Eminent Historian Professor R.S. Sharma writes of him in the following words: "Pandurang Vaman Kane, a great Sanskritist wedded to social reform, continued the earlier tradition of scholarship. His monumental work entitled the "History of the Dharmasastra", published in five volumes in the twentieth century, is an encyclopedia of ancient social laws and customs. This enables us to study the social processes in ancient India."
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- Born
- 1880
Ratnagiri district - Also known as
- Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane
- Dr. Kane
- Kane
- Nationality
- India
- Profession
- Education
- University of Mumbai
- Lived in
- Maharashtra
- Died
- 1972
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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