# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shridhar-venkatesh-ketkar
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:04:41.677Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shridhar-venkatesh-ketkar"
name: "Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar"
slug: "shridhar-venkatesh-ketkar"
description: "Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar was a Marathi sociologist, historian and novelist from Maharashtra, India. He is principally known as the chief editor of Maharashtriya Jnanakosha, the first-ever encyclopedia in the Marathi language."
tagline: "Sociologist, historian and novelist from Maharashtra, India (1884-1937)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shridhar_Venkatesh_Ketkar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1884-02-02"
deathDate: "1937-04-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.03448275862069
  historical:           4.204896
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "শ্রীধর ভেঙ্কটেশ কেতকর"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump