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historian politician member of the Rajya Sabha
He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy by the State University of Utrecht in 1950 in recognition of his contributions to the critical editing the Gavamayana portion of the Vedic work Jaiminiya Brahmana with the help of newly discovered manuscripts.
Presently he is the president of Indian Council for Cultural Relations. He is also the Director of the International Academy of Indian Culture. He is the son of the famous Sanskrit scholar, linguist and politician Raghu Vira.
In the Netherlands, he also studied with the famous Indologist January Gonda.
Lokesh Chandra has studied many languages including English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Bengali, Pali, Avesta, Old Persian, Japanese, Chinese, Tibetan, Malayalam, Mongolian, Indonesian, Greek, Latin, German, French, Tamil, Old Javanese, and Russian. He has to his cr over 360 works and text editions.
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He has also served as a member of the Indian Rajya Sabha, Vice-President of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, and Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research.
