# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/komal-kothari
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:09:10.485Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/komal-kothari"
name: "Komal Kothari"
slug: "komal-kothari"
description: "Komal Kothari (1929–2004) was an Indian folklorist and ethnomusicologist. Komal Kothari had devoted his life to investigation and documentation of folk traditions of western Rajasthan. Kothari received the honour of Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan from the Government of India. Komal Kothari painstakingly worked to preserve the cultural memory and made numerous recordings of folk music. He studied Langa and Manganiyar communities of folk musicians of Thar desert."
tagline: "Indian folklorist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Indian_Folklorist_Komal_Kothari.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1929-03-04"
deathDate: "2004-04-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.9965635738831615
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "कोमल कोठारी"
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    title: "Komal Kothari"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump