Pandurang Vaman Kane, who passed away on 18 April 1972, aged 91, was an Indian academic, historian, lawyer, Indologist, and Sanskrit scholar. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award in 1963.
Kane's academic career spanned for more than four decades, and included a tenure as the vice-chancellor of the University of Bombay, from 1947 to 1949. He is known for his magnum opus, History of Dharmaśāstra (1930-62), a five-volume treatise on law in ancient and medieval India. He was nominated to the Rajya Sabha, upper house of the Indian parliament from 1953 to 1964.
Kane initially studied and taught Sanskrit, but later
obtained degrees in law and practiced before the Bombay High Court. He
taught Sanskrit at Wilson College and Elphinstone College and law
at Government Law College. Kane was a member of the Bombay Asiatic
Society.
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