Vikram Sampath
Vikram Sampath is an Indian popular historian, noted for authoring biographies of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and Gauhar Jaan. In 2021, Sampath was elected as a Fellow of Royal Historical Society.[2][lower-alpha 1]
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| Occupation | Historian, Columnist,former Senior Research Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library[1] |
Notable work | Savarkar (book) |
Early life and education
Born and raised in Bangalore, he completed his schooling in Bangalore at the Sri Aurobindo Memorial School and Bishop Cotton Boys' School. He obtained a Bachelors in Engineering in Electronics and a Masters in Mathematics from BITS Pilani. He obtained an MBA in Finance from S P Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai.[3]
Sampath has a doctorate (October 2017) in ethnomusicology from the School of Music at University of Queensland, Australia.[lower-alpha 2]
Career
Sampath is a former senior fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. He is also the founder-director of the Bangalore Lit Fest and the ZEE Group's ARTH: A Culture Fest.[4][5]
Works
His first book, Splendours of Royal Mysore: The Untold Story of the Wodeyars was a history on Wadiyar Dynasty of Mysore. His second work —My Name Is Gauhar Jaan: The Life and Times of a Musician— is the biography of Gauhar Jaan, India's first classical musician to record on the gramophone.[6]
His third book —Voice of the Veena: S. Balachander, A Biography— narrates the story of Veena maestro Dr. S Balachander.[7] His fourth work is the biography of Savarkar in two parts – Savarkar: Echoes From A Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 and Savarkar: A Contested Legacy 1924–1966.[8]
Award
He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi’s Yuva Puraskar in English literature[9][10] and the ARSC International Award for Excellence in Historical Research in New York for his book on Gauhar Jaan.[11] In 2021, he was elected as a Fellow of Royal Historical Society.
Notes
- Apart from historians in academia, members include "government historians, broadcasters, film-makers, creative writers, biographers, public historians, curators, publishers, journalists and editors, and academic librarians."
- The thesis was titled "Indian classical music and the gramophone (c. 1900-1930): A socio-cultural, historical, and musical analysis of the Gramophone Company’s Indian recording expeditions."
References
- https://theprint.in/author/vikram-sampath/page/2/
- "281 new Fellows & Members elected to the Society | RHS". royalhistsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
- "Vikram Sampath ~ Author | Voice of the Veena | My Name is Gauhar Jaan! | Splendours of Royal Mysore". vikramsampath.com. Retrieved 2021-08-01.
- "Founders – Bangalore Literature Festival". bangaloreliteraturefestival.org. Retrieved 2021-08-15.
- "Savarkar (Part 1)". Penguin Random House India. Retrieved 2021-08-01.
- Ganesh, Deepa (2012-03-05). "It's more than the melody". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
- "Voice Of The Veena S Balachander". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2021-08-01.
- Parashar, Swati (28 August 2021). "'Savarkar: A Contested Legacy, 1924–1966' review: Hindutva's biggest ideologue". The Hindu.
- "..:: SAHITYA Akademi – Yuva Puraskar ::." sahitya-akademi.gov.in. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
- Feb 15, Shrabonti Bagchi / TNN /; 2012; Ist, 06:45. "Yuva Puraskar for Bangalore author | Bengaluru News – Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2021-10-21.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
- "Vikram Sampath". Penguin Random House India. Retrieved 2021-08-01.
Further reading
- Bhattacharya, Akash. "How historian Vikram Sampath uses decolonisation rhetoric to make Hindu domination sound reasonable". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2021-11-30.