# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ram-sharan-sharma
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:32:45.184Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ram-sharan-sharma"
name: "Ram Sharan Sharma"
slug: "ram-sharan-sharma"
description: "Ram Sharan Sharma was a Marxist historian and Indologist who specialised in the history of Ancient and early Medieval India. He taught at Patna University and Delhi University (1973–85) and was visiting faculty at University of Toronto (1965–1966). He also was a senior fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He was a University Grants Commission National Fellow (1958–81) and the president of Indian History Congress in 1975. It was during his tenure as the dean of Delhi University's History Department that major expansion of the department took place in the 1970s. The creation of most of the positions in the department were the results of his efforts. He was the founding Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) and a historian of international repute."
tagline: "Indian historian and Indologist (1919–2011)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ea/Ram_Sharan_Sharma%2C_Indian_historian.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1919-11-26"
deathDate: "2011-08-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0.4553215708594195
  historical:           7.999465333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump