# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lokesh-chandra
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:23:20.162Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lokesh-chandra"
name: "Lokesh Chandra"
slug: "lokesh-chandra"
description: "Lokesh Chandra is a prominent scholar of the Vedic period, Buddhism and the Indian arts. Between 1942 and 2004, he published 576 books and 286 articles."
tagline: "Indian historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lokesh_Chandra.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1927-04-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             10
  historical:           8.149785333333334
  currentAttention:     30
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Lokesh Chandra"
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    title: "Lokesh Chandra"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lokesh_Chandra"
    title: "Lokesh Chandra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ローケーシュ・チャンドラ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Локеш Чандра"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump