# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/k-a-nilakanta-sastri
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:52:15.150Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/k-a-nilakanta-sastri"
name: "K. A. Nilakanta Sastri"
slug: "k-a-nilakanta-sastri"
description: "Kallidaikurichi Aiyah Nilakanta Sastri was an Indian historian who wrote on South Indian history. Many of his books form the standard reference works on the subject. Sastri was acclaimed for his scholarship and mastery of sources and was a recipient of the third highest Indian civilian honour, the Padma Bhushan."
tagline: "Indian historian (1892–1975)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/KAN_Sastri.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1892-08-12"
deathDate: "1975-06-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump