Kapil Kapoor | |
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| Born | (1940-11-17)17 November 1940 (age 85) Amritsar, Punjab Province, India |
| Notable awards | Padma Bhushan (2023) |
Kapil Kapoor (born 17 November 1940) is an Indian scholar of Historylinguistics andliterature and an authority on Indian intellectual traditions.[1] He is former Pro-Vice-Chancellor ofJawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and served as professor at the Centre for Linguistics and English, and at the Centre for Sanskrit Studies there before retiring in 2005.[2][3] He is Editor-in-Chief of the 11-VolumeEncyclopedia of Hinduism published byRupa & Co. in 2012.[4]
TheGovernment of India awarded him with the civilian honour ofPadma Bhushan in 2023.[5]
Prof. Kapil Kapoor was born inAmritsar,Punjab Province India.[6] Prof. Kapoor's family came fromLyallpur,Punjab Province, in modern-dayPakistan, at the time ofPartition of India and Pakistan. His family were allotted land inPhagwara city inKapurthala district ofPunjab.
Kapil Kapoor has been teaching for fifty-two years; 41 scholars worked for PhD and 36 for M.Phil. under him. He was Dean of the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, JNU, from 1996–1999 and Rector (Pro-Vice-Chancellor) of the University from 1999–2002.
In 2018, he was appointed chairperson ofIndian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS) at Shimla.[7] Previously, he was Chancellor ofMahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya atWardha.
His teaching and research areas include literary and linguistic theories, both Indian and Western, thephilosophy of language, nineteenth-century British life, literature and thought and Indian intellectual traditions. He has written and lectured extensively on these themes. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Center for Sanskrit Studies and, later, the School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies at JNU.[6] Though he retired from JNU in 2005, he continued his academic career.[6]
Two of his books,Abhinavagupta: Manuscripts andIrish-Indian Anthology (with Professors Welch and Mac Mathuna of the University of Ulster, UK, as co-editors) are under publication. Another bookConcept and Taxonomy of Knowledge in History of Science, Culture and Civilization, D.P.Chattopadhyaya, General Editor, in the Volume edited by Professor G.C.Pande is also under publication as of February 2013. Kapoor is also working onEncyclopedia of Indian Poetics, as Chief Editor, under aSahitya Akademi Project.
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