Madhusudan Dhaky | |
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| Born | (1927-07-31)31 July 1927 |
| Died | 29 July 2016(2016-07-29) (aged 88) Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India |
| Occupation(s) | Architectural and art historian |
Madhusudan Amilal Dhaky (31 July 1927 – 29 July 2016) was an architectural and art historian fromGujarat, India. He had written extensively on Indian temple architecture,Jain literature and art.[1]
Dhaky was born on 31 July 1927 inPorbandar,Gujarat. He completed his primary and secondary education at Porbandar. He received his surname from his native Dhank village near Porbandar.[2][3] He graduated ingeology and chemistry fromFerguson College,Pune. He worked with Central Bank for brief period. He had worked for three years in field of horticulture. In 1951, he established Archeology Research Group in Porbandar.[2] He had researchedIndian classical music also. He was married to Geetaben.[4] He served as the director of research at the Centre for Art and Archaeology at theAmerican institute of Indian Studies inGurgaon from 1976 to 1996 and the director emeritus, research till 2005 at the same institute.[3] He had also contributed to the construction of the modernSomnath temple.[5][6]
He died on 29 July 2016 at his residence atNaranpura,Ahmedabad after brief illness.[6][5]
He had written extensively on architectural and art history, especially Indian temple architecture. He had written 25 books, 325 research papers and 400 articles.[5] He has written several works onJain literature. He is known for his fourteen volume work,Indian Temple Architecture.[6]
His books includeThe Embroidery and Bead work of Kutch and Saurashtra (1966),[2]The Riddle of the Temple of Somanātha (1974),The Indian temple forms in Karṇātạ inscriptions and architecture (1987),Encyclopaedia of Indian temple architecture with Michael Meister,The Indian temple Traceries (2005),Complexities Surrounding the Vimalavasahī Temple at Mt. Abu (1980),Arhat Pārśva and Dharaṇendra nexus,Nirgranth Aitihāsik Lekh-Samuccay,Professor Nirmal Kumar Bose and His Contribution to Indian Temple Architecture: The Pratiṣṭhạ̄-Lakṣaṇasamuccaya and the Architecture of Kaliṅga (1998),The Temples in Kumbhāriyā (2001),Saptaka (1997),Shani Mekhla andTamra Shashan (2011). The last two were fiction.[4][2]
He had received the Campbell Memorial Gold Medal awarded by theAsiatic Society of Bombay.[3] He had also receivedRanjitram Suvarna Chandrak in 2010. He had also receivedPadma Bhushan in 2010.[4][6] He had also receivedKumar Chandrak in 1974[2] and Uma Snehrashmi Prize.[7] He was awarded lifetime achievement award by Gujarat Itihas Parishad.[8]
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