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Umakant Premanand Shah was a scholar from India.
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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]
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]
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