# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shivkar-bapuji-talpade
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:25:50.834Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shivkar-bapuji-talpade"
name: "Shivkar Bapuji Talpade"
slug: "shivkar-bapuji-talpade"
description: "Shivkar Bāpuji Talpade was an Indian instructor with an interest in Sanskrit and aviation. He lived in Mumbai, and is claimed to have constructed and flown an unmanned, heavier-than-air aircraft in 1895. Contemporary accounts of a successful flight do not exist, and no reliable historical records document its existence. Pseudo-historical narratives about Talpade proliferated in India in the early 2000s among adherents of the Hindu-nationalist right-wing. These included the false claim that Talpade had \"invented the modern aircraft\"."
tagline: "Indian aviation pioneer (1864–1916)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shivkar_Talpade.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1864"
deathDate: "1916"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.177829099307159
  historical:           7.153786666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Σιβκάρ Μπαπούτζι Ταλπάντε"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump