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Kapil Kapoor (born 17 November 1940) is an Indian scholar of History linguistics and literature and an authority on Indian intellectual traditions. He is former Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal 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. He is Editor-in-Chief of the 11-Volume Encyclopedia of Hinduism published by Rupa & Co. in 2012.
The Government of India awarded him with the civilian honour of Padma Bhushan in 2023.
In 2018, he was appointed chairperson of Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS) at Shimla. Previously, he was Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya at Wardha.
His teaching and research areas include literary and linguistic theories, both Indian and Western, the philosophy 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. Though he retired from JNU in 2005, he continued his academic career.
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Two of his books, Abhinavagupta: Manuscripts and Irish-Indian Anthology (with Professors Welch and Mac Mathuna of the University of Ulster, UK, as co-editors) are under publication. Another book Concept 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 on Encyclopedia of Indian Poetics, as Chief Editor, under a Sahitya Akademi Project.
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