K. N. Sitaram

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1889 – 1940

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Who was K. N. Sitaram?

K. N. Sitaram was the first Indian to head the famous Central Museum, Lahore, Pakistan. He was successor to John Lockwood Kipling, father of Rudyard Kipling. His contribution to Indian history, arts were outstanding. He had a vast personal collection of Indian arts and artifacts which he donated entirely to Central Museum, Lahore. He has travelled far and wide and was also instrumental in re-indexing the artifacts at Buckingham Palace, London. He also claimed to know 21 languages.

He was conferred the title of Pandit since he was an authority in Sanskrit. He was a native of Ambasamudram, Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu state of India.

During his educational tenure at Kings' College, Oxford, in early 1920s, where he did his Ph. D in History, Dr. Sitaram married an English lady Ms. Ethel. They had a son named Mr. Krishna Sitaram born in May 1925.

Growing differences between Ethel and Sitaram had them divorced, though Krishnan Sitaram continued his correspondence with Dr. Sitaram until he expired in September 1940. By which time, Dr. Sitaram had married the daughter of the eldest son of Zamorin of Calicut, Kerala. He had two sons by this marriage, Ramachandran and Chandrashekar.

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Born
1889
Died
1940

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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