Saryu Doshi

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| occupation = Art scholar
Art historian
Curator

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| known for = Miniature art
Jain art

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| awards = Padma Shri
Women Achiever Award
ASI Lifetime Achievement Award

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Saryu Vinod Doshi is an Indian art scholar, art historian, academic and curator, known for her erudition in Indian miniature paintings and Jain art.{{cite web | url=http://baajaagaajaa.com/speakers-2011/dr-saryu-doshi/ | title=Dr. Saryu Doshi | publisher=Baajaa Gaajaa | date=2015 | access-date=28 October 2015}} She is the founder director of the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai and a former pro-tem chairman of the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.{{cite web | url=http://www.europalia.eu/archives/india/en/article/dr-saryu-doshi-_342.html | title=Paradise as a garden | publisher=Europalia India | date=2015 | access-date=28 October 2015}} She is the author of several books{{cite web | url=https://www.amazon.com/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3ASaryu+Doshi | title=Amazon profile | publisher=Amazon | date=2015 | access-date=28 October 2015}} including Masterpieces of Jain Painting, a monograph on selected Jain art pieces.{{cite book | title=Masterpieces of Jain Painting | publisher=Marg Publications | author=Saryu Doshi | year=1995 | pages=150 | asin=B0012GXJ8G}} The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest civilian award of the Padma Shri, in 1999.{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=21 July 2015}}

Biography

Saryu Doshi was born in Mumbai, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra and did her schooling at Queen Mary School, Mumbai.{{cite web | url=http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report-saryu-doshi-high-priestess-of-the-art-world-4089 | title=Saryu Doshi - high priestess of the art world | publisher=DNA Syndicate | date=1 October 2005 | access-date=28 October 2015}} Later, she graduated from the Elphinstone College and secured a diploma in Arts from the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art before marrying Vinod Doshi,{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Roots-Dr-Saryu-Doshi/articleshow/23479532.cms | title=Roots - Dr Saryu Doshi | newspaper=Times of India | date=27 September 2002 | access-date=28 October 2015}} an industrialist from the Walchand Industrial Group and the son of Lalchand Hirachand,{{cite web | url=http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/oct/07doshi.htm | title=Industrialist Vinod Doshi passes away | publisher=Rediff | date=7 October 2008 | access-date=29 October 2015}} who founded the Hindustan Aeronautics.{{cite web | url=https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1954/1954%20-%202391.PDF | title=Hindustan Aeronatuics | publisher=Flight Global | date=2015 | access-date=28 October 2015}} Though she stayed in Satara after the marriage, she visited Mumbai on a regular basis to keep in touch with the art circle of Mumbai. In 1972, she received the fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation and pursued research on Indian miniature art and Jain art, for which she received a doctoral degree (PhD). She served as a visiting professor of Art History and Culture at University of Michigan from January to April 1976 and returned to India and worked at the University of Pune for the first six months of 1978. She also had a stint at University of California, Berkeley in 1979, from March to June, as a visiting faculty. Her researches have also helped in the discovery of many Jain manuscripts from the fifteenth century.{{cite journal | url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7101824 | title=Myth, Cult and Symbols of Śākta Hinduism: A Study of the Indian Mother Goddess | author=Wendell Charles Beane. Leiden: E. J. Brill | journal=The Journal of Asian Studies | year=1979 | volume=38 | issue=3 | pages=597–599 | doi=10.2307/2053812| jstor=2053812 | s2cid=162091311 | url-access=subscription }}

In 1996, Doshi was among the art enthusiasts who founded the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai and served as the founder director of the institution. She took over the pro-tem chairmanship of the Lalit Kala Akademi in 1996 and held the post till 2002. She has curated several art exhibitions in India{{cite web | url=http://www.indiaartfestival.com/aboutus.htm | title=India Art Festival | publisher=India Art Festival | date=2015 | access-date=29 October 2015}} and is a former editor of non-profit publishing house of Marg, which published several of her books.{{cite web | url=http://www.marg-art.org/AboutMarg | title=Past Editors | publisher=Marg | date=2015 | access-date=29 October 2015}} Besides Masterpieces of Jain Painting, she has also published three other monographs, namely, Dances of Manipur: The Classical Tradition, on Manipuri dance,{{cite book | title=Dances of Manipur: The Classical Tradition | publisher=Gaudiya Vedanta Publications | author=Saryu Doshi | year=1989 | pages=128 | isbn=978-8185026091}} Dharna Vihara, Ranakpur, about the ancient Jain temples of Rajasthan{{cite book | title=Dharna Vihara, Ranakpur | publisher=Axel Menges | author=Saryu Doshi | year=1996 | pages=63 | isbn=978-3930698172}} and Homage to Shravana Belgola, about the ancient Jain pilgrim centre.{{cite book | title=Homage to Shravana Belgola | publisher=Marg Publications | editor=Saryu Doshi | year=1981 | pages=176 | isbn=978-0391025189}} Goa Cultural Patterns,{{cite book | title=Goa Cultural Patterns | publisher=Marg Publications | author=Saryu Doshi | year=1983 | pages=152 | asin=B000BTNLNI}} Shivaji and Facets of Maratha Culture,{{cite book | title=Shivaji and Facets of Maratha Culture | publisher=Marg Publications | author=Saryu Doshi | year=1982 | asin=B0022TPFMK}} A Collector's Dream : Indian Art in the Collections of Basant Kumar and Saraladevi Birla and the Birla Academy of Art and Culture,{{cite book | title=A Collector's Dream : Indian Art in the Collections of Basant Kumar and Saraladevi Birla and the Birla Academy of Art and Culture | publisher=Marg Publications | editor=Khandlavala, Karl | editor2=Doshi, Saryu | year=1987 | asin=B0022TIJIM}} The Indian Woman,{{cite book | title=The Indian Woman | publisher=The Department of Women and Child Development | author=Saryu Doshi | year=1987 | asin=B0007C6MNK}} Homage to Karnataka,{{cite book | title=Homage to Karnataka | publisher=Marg Publications | author=Saryu Doshi | year=1982 | asin=B001JATAQ0}} Symbols and Manifestations of Indian Art,{{cite book | title=Symbols and Manifestations of Indian Art | publisher=Marg Publications | author=Saryu Doshi | year=1984 | asin=B0017PR4XI}} Continuity and Change: Festival of India in Great Britain,{{cite book | title=Continuity and Change: Festival of India in Great Britain | publisher=Marg Publications | author=Saryu Doshi | year=1983 | pages=113 | asin=B0000CQD33}} An age of splendour: Islamic art in India,{{cite book | title=An age of splendour: Islamic art in India | publisher=Marg Publications | editor=Saryu Doshi | editor2=Karl Khandalavala | year=1983 | pages=149 | asin=B0000CQD3O}} India and Greece, connections and parallels,{{cite book | title=India and Greece, connections and parallels | publisher=Marg Publications | author=Saryu Doshi | year=1985 | asin=B001RBZI2Q}} India and Egypt: Influences and Interactions,{{cite book | title=India and Egypt: Influences and Interactions | publisher=South Asia Books | author=Saryu Doshi | year=1993 | pages=35 | isbn=978-8185026237}} Tribal India: Ancestors, Gods, and Spirits,{{cite book | title=Tribal India: Ancestors, Gods, and Spirits | publisher=South Asia Books | editor=Saryu Doshi | year=1992 | pages=136 | isbn=978-8185026183}} India: Week by Week (Kerala),{{cite book | title=India: Week by Week (Kerala) | publisher=Media Transasia |author1=Saryu Doshi |author2=Maureen Liebl | year=1988 | asin=B00123QN6Y}} Images and Tradition - Festival of India in Great Britain (Volume XXXVI){{cite book | title=Images and Tradition - Festival of India in Great Britain | publisher=Marg Publications | editor=Saryu Doshi | year=1984 | pages=100 | asin=B000KKLFCM}} and Pageant of Indian Art: Festival of India in Great Britain{{cite book | title=Pageant of Indian Art: Festival of India in Great Britain | publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press | editor=Saryu Doshi | year=1984 | isbn=978-9994253449}} are her other publications. She is a member of the advisory council of the India chapter of the Asia Society{{cite web | url=http://asiasociety.org/india/our-board | title=Advisory council | publisher=Asia Society India | date=2015 | access-date=29 October 2015}} and has travelled extensively to deliver keynote addresses at several seminars in Europe, US, Africa and Asia. She has also given talks on BBC and All India Radio.

The Government of India awarded her the civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 1999. She received the Woman Achiever Award from the Bombay West Ladies' Circle in 2001 and the Art Society of India honoured her with Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006.

Vinod Doshi, her husband, died on 6 October 2008, leaving their son, Maitreya, with her. She lives along Carmichael Road (later renamed as M. L. Dahanukar Marg), in South Mumbai.

As trustee of the Vinod and Saryu Doshi Foundation, Doshi oversees the annual Vinod Doshi Theatre Festival, which showcases experimental theater productions from young and independent theater artists in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India.{{Cite news|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/multilingual-theatre-festival-to-kick-off-on-february-22/|title=Multilingual theatre festival to kick off on February 22|date=2016-02-11|work=The Indian Express|access-date=2017-03-27|language=en-US}}

Bibliography

{{cite book | title=Homage to Shravana Belgola | publisher=Marg Publications | editor=Saryu Doshi | year=1981 | pages=176 | isbn=978-0391025189}}
{{cite book | title=Homage to Karnataka | publisher=Marg Publications | author=Saryu Doshi | year=1982 | asin=B001JATAQ0}}
{{cite book | title=Shivaji and Facets of Maratha Culture | publisher=Marg Publications | author=Saryu Doshi | year=1982 | asin=B0022TPFMK}}
{{cite book | title=Goa Cultural Patterns | publisher=Marg Publications | author=Saryu Doshi | year=1983 | pages=152 | asin=B000BTNLNI}}
{{cite book | title=Continuity and Change: Festival of India in Great Britain | publisher=Marg Publications | author=Saryu Doshi | year=1983 | pages=113 | asin=B0000CQD33}}
{{cite book | title=An age of splendour: Islamic art in India | publisher=Marg Publications | editor=Saryu Doshi | editor2=Karl Khandalavala | year=1983 | pages=149 | asin=B0000CQD3O}}
{{cite book | title=Images and Tradition - Festival of India in Great Britain | publisher=Marg Publications | editor=Saryu Doshi | year=1984 | pages=100 | asin=B000KKLFCM}}
{{cite book | title=Pageant of Indian Art: Festival of India in Great Britain | publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press | editor=Saryu Doshi | year=1984 | isbn=978-9994253449}}
{{cite book | title=Symbols and Manifestations of Indian Art | publisher=Marg Publications | author=Saryu Doshi | year=1984 | asin=B0017PR4XI}}
{{cite book | title=India and Greece, connections and parallels | publisher=Marg Publications | author=Saryu Doshi | year=1985 | asin=B001RBZI2Q}}
{{cite book | title=A Collector's Dream : Indian Art in the Collections of Basant Kumar and Saraladevi Birla and the Birla Academy of Art and Culture | publisher=Marg Publications | editor=Khandlavala, Karl | editor2=Doshi, Saryu | year=1987 | asin=B0022TIJIM}}
{{cite book | title=The Indian Woman | publisher=The Department of Women and Child Development | author=Saryu Doshi | year=1987 | asin=B0007C6MNK}}
{{cite book | title=India: Week by Week (Kerala) | publisher=Media Transasia |author1=Saryu Doshi |author2=Maureen Liebl | year=1988 | asin=B00123QN6Y}}
{{cite book | title=Dances of Manipur: The Classical Tradition | publisher=Gaudiya Vedanta Publications | author=Saryu Doshi | year=1989 | pages=128 | isbn=978-8185026091}}
{{cite book | title=Tribal India: Ancestors, Gods, and Spirits | publisher=South Asia Books | editor=Saryu Doshi | year=1992 | pages=136 | isbn=978-8185026183}}
{{cite book | title=India and Egypt: Influences and Interactions | publisher=South Asia Books | author=Saryu Doshi | year=1993 | pages=35 | isbn=978-8185026237}}
{{cite book | title=Dharna Vihara, Ranakpur | publisher=Axel Menges | author=Saryu Doshi | year=1996 | pages=63 | isbn=978-3930698172}}