# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/himanshu-prabha-ray
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:19:08.922Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/himanshu-prabha-ray"
name: "Himanshu Prabha Ray"
slug: "himanshu-prabha-ray"
description: "Himanshu Prabha Ray is an Indian Sanskrit scholar and historian. Her interests areas are marine archaeology, history, and culture of South Asia. Ray is a recipient of the Anneliese Maier research award of the Humboldt Foundation for collaborative research with the Distant Worlds Programme and an Honorary Professor of the Distant Worlds Programme, LMU Munich in Germany. She has also served as a professor in the Centre for Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. Ray was appointed as the Chairperson of the National Monuments Authority, under the government of India, until 2015."
tagline: "Indian historian and archaeologist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-08-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.07
  momentum:             1.428571428571428
  historical:           5.070410666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Himanshu Prabha Ray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هيمانشو برابها راى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "হিমাংশু প্রভা রায়"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "హిమాన్షు ప్రభా రే"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himan%C5%9Du_Praba_Re"
    title: "Himanŝu Praba Re"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B9%2C_%D0%A5%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%88%D1%83_%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%85%D0%B0"
    title: "Рай, Химаншу Прабха"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump