# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sadhana-naithani
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:59:01.669Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sadhana-naithani"
name: "Sadhana Naithani"
slug: "sadhana-naithani"
description: "Sadhana Naithani is an Indian ethnographer, folklorist, Indo-European post-colonial theorist and educator. She was president of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR) until 2024, coordinates the Folklore Unit at Jawaharlal Nehru University and established the School of Languages at Doon University. She originated the term \"colonizer-folklorist.\""
tagline: "Indian ethnographer, folklorist, Indo-European post-colonial theorist and educator"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           35.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.869978666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump