Dasharatha Sharma

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Dasharatha Sharma
Born1903 (1903)
Indologist

Dasharatha Sharma (1903–1976) was an

University of Delhi. He had degrees of Master of Arts (M.A.) in History and Sanskrit
and received a Doctor of Literature (D. Litt.) for his thesis, Early Chauhan Dynasties.

Academic appointments

Sharma was the head of the Department of History at

University of Delhi. In 1966, he was appointed as Professor and Head, Department of History at the University of Jodhpur (now renamed Jai Narain Vyas University) and later became Dean, Faculty of Arts at the same institution. After retirement from the University of Jodhpur, Prof. Sharma served as Director of the Rajasthan Puratattva Mandir near the Rajasthan Oriental Research Institute in Jodhpur. He also presided over the Ancient History section of the Indian History Congress in 1967 and the General History section of the Rajasthan History Congress in 1969.[citation needed
]

Authorship

Sharma published over 400 research papers and notes on a wide range of subjects. His Early Chauhan Dynasties was first published in 1959, a revised edition was published in 1975 and reprinted in 2002. The manuscript argues that the

Rao Jodha.[citation needed
]

In 1960, Sharma was appointed by the Rajasthan State Archives as General Editor of a comprehensive history of Rajasthan to be published by the Government of Rajasthan. This became the definitive work on the history of Rajasthan.[citation needed] Titled Rajasthan through the Ages this work was largely written by Sharma and was published in 1966. Samrat Prithiviraj Chauhan tritiya aur unka yug (in Hindi) is an updated text on Prithviraja III.

Monographs

References

  1. JSTOR 596636
    .

Further reading
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