# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/k-p-jayaswal
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:46:15.167Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/k-p-jayaswal"
name: "K.P. Jayaswal"
slug: "k-p-jayaswal"
description: "Kashi Prasad Jayaswal was an Indian historian and lawyer. Jayaswal's works Hindu Polity (1918) and History of India, 150 A.D. to 350 A.D. (1933) are classics of ancient Indian historical literature. Among other things, he is credited with showing that Indian republics, based on principles of representation and collective decision-making, were among the most democratic polities of the ancient world."
tagline: "Indian historian and lawyer (1881–1937)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/KP_Jayaswal_1981_stamp_of_India.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1881-11-27"
deathDate: "1937-08-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.78
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.409072
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ಕಾಶೀಪ್ರಸಾದ ಜಯಸ್ವಾಲ್"
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    title: "ڪي پي جيسوال"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump