# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/uma-chakravarti
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:21:25.678Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/uma-chakravarti"
name: "Uma Chakravarti"
slug: "uma-chakravarti"
description: "Uma Chakravarti is an Indian historian and filmmaker. Beginning in the 1980s, Chakravarti wrote extensively on Indian history highlighting issues relating to gender, caste, and class, publishing seven books over the course of her career. Her body of work mostly focused on the history of Buddhism, and that of ancient and 19th century India."
tagline: "Indian historian and filmmaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Uma_chak.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941-08-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           11.08988666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump