# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anant-sadashiv-altekar
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:07:35.045Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anant-sadashiv-altekar"
name: "Anant Sadashiv Altekar"
slug: "anant-sadashiv-altekar"
description: "Anant Sadashiv Altekar was a historian, archaeologist, and numismatist from Maharashtra, India. He was the Manindra Chandra Nandy's Professor and Head of the Department of Ancient Indian History and Culture at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India, and later the director of the Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute and University Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture at the Patna University, both in Patna, India."
tagline: "Historian, archaeologist, and numismatist from Maharashtra, India"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1898-08-30"
deathDate: "1959-11-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.37
  momentum:             11.49694929518199
  historical:           4.874838666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Anant Sadashiv Altekar"
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    title: "انانت ساداشيڤ التيكار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "অনন্ত সদাশিব আলতেকার"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ಅಳ್ತೇಕರ್, ಎ ಎಸ್"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Anant Sadashiv Altekar"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump